Harry Belafonte Belafonte At Carnegie Hall UHQCD

Numbered, Limited Edition Japanese Import UHQCD!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The granddaddy of all live albums, this disc captures the excitement of a Harry Belafonte concert at the height of his popularity. Sampled from two consecutive performances of identical material, Belafonte at Carnegie Hall was an anomaly at a time when only comedy albums were recorded outside of the studio environment. It wasn't the first live album ever made, but it was certainly the first to be a major financial and artistic success.
From the opening trumpet fanfare and brief orchestral overture to the epic 12-minute version of "Matilda" (which set a standard for audience participation), the album never lets up. It is exciting, poignant, thrilling, intimate, and at times, spontaneously hilarious.
Harry Belafonte was already playing an important role in the film business at the time of this recording, on April 19 and 20, 1959. So it was easy to sell out Carnegie Hall in New York with his name. What no one was prepared for was the way in which Belafonte involved the assembled audience in the music. Apparently playing, he also integrated his own band into a 47-piece orchestra. "Belafone At Carnegie Hall" is an audiophile gem for those who can laugh while listening to music.
The concert includes traditionals of the black American population, excerpts of Caribbean music from Belafonte's youth in Jamaica, and a wild mix of popular pieces from around the world. The complete work was released on the RCA label and remained in the US charts for more than three years. She established the enormous popularity of the later Belafonte live shows.
In terms of sound, the recording is a great moment in recording technology with wonderful voice reproduction, jumping dynamics and fantastic spatiality. When the audience then takes over Matilda Belafonte's vocal part and the singer allows himself the fun of incorporating individual groups ('And now everyone who can really spend money!'), the mood reaches its climax. If you still don't sing along, you should urgently check your own pulse!
All About Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD)
Many years have passed since the birth of the Audio Compact Disc (CD) back in 1982. By use of High-Quality materials and a totally different manufacturing method, the definitive version of audiophile audio CD was born. Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
The Ultimate High Quality CD (UHQCD):
UHQCD is a radical change to the CD manufacturing process itself. The conventional wisdom about CD manufacturing, which had remained largely unchanged across the world for over 30 years, has been exhaustively questioned. Through this effort, the ultimate in quality was attained - a level of quality that is certainly impossible to achieve with existing CD discs.
The Ultimate High Quality CD was developed through an effort to improve audio quality by simply upgrading the materials used in ordinary CDs to higher quality materials. For the substrate a high-transparency and high-fluidity polycarbonate (a type of plastic) of the type used for LCD panels was used, while for the reflective layer, low-cost, common aluminum was replaced with a unique and expensive alloy of high-reflectivity.
Differences in manufacturing methods:
Conventional CDs are produced using the technique of injection molding to form "pits" of data on polycarbonate material. Metal plate on which "pits" representing audio source data are formed is used as a die. This is called the "stamper." Polycarbonate is melted at high temperature and poured into the die to duplicate the pit patterns on the stamper.
This method is efficient because it enables high-speed production, but it does not enable totally accurate or complete duplication of the pits on the stamper. As a melted plastic, polycarbonate is inevitably viscous, so it cannot penetrate completely into every land and groove of the tiny pits of the stamper.
The Ultimate High Quality CD photopolymer is used instead of polycarbonate to replicate the pits of the stamper. In their normal state, photopolymers are liquids, but one of their characteristic properties is that they harden when exposed to light of certain wavelengths. The advantage of this property, perfect replication of very finely detailed pits was achieved. Photopolymers in the liquid state are able to penetrate into the tiniest corners of pits on the stamper so that the pattern of the pits is reproduced to an extremely high level of accuracy. The Ultimate High Quality CD reproduces audio with greater precision and at a level that is impossible to achieve using conventional CD production technology!
Packaged in an XRCD-like luxury digipak complete with full color CD booklet.

Features:

• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Made in Japan
• Superior Crystal Sound
• Ultimate High Quality CD
• XRCD-Like Luxury Digipak
• Playable on conventional CD players

Musicians:

• Harry Belafonte, vocals
• Millard Thomas, guitar
• Raphael Boguslav, guitar
• Danny Barrajanos, bongos, congos
• Norm Keenan, bass
• Robert Coman, conductor

Selections:

1. Introduction/Darlin' Cora
2. Sylvie
3. Cotton Fields
4. John Henry
5. The Marching Saints
6. Day O
7. Jamaica Farewell
8. Mama Look A Boo Boo
9. Come Back Lisa
10. Man Smart (Woman Smarter)
11. Hava Nageela
12. Danny Boy
13. Cu Cu Ru Cu Cu Paloma
14. Shenandoah
15. Matilda