Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um UHQCD

Gold Series Japanese Import UHQCD!
From the Original Analog Master Tapes!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 380/500!
This is Mingu's 13th studio album, but his first for a major label: Columbia. And a really good one at that. "Ah hum" is considered (along with "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady") not only his best work, but also one of the most important jazz albums in history. In an unusual line-up with three saxophones, two trombones and a rhythm section consisting of bass, drums and piano, the set was recorded in just two days. Some pieces became standards, such as the opening track "Better Git it in Your Soul", "Fables of Faubus" or "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", a tribute to the recently deceased Lester Young.
"Charles Mingus filtered the vibrancy and romance of his hero Duke Ellington's big-band orchestrations into hard-driving bop, leading his own band through a torrid, gospel inspired rave-up ("Better Git It in Your Soul"), a sly protest song ("Fables of Faubus," aimed at Arkansas' segregationist governor), and a mournful elegy ("Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," dedicated to tenor great Lester Young). Ah Um is the place to hear why Mingus deserves a place in any survey of America's greatest composers, regardless of genre." – Rolling Stone
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!

Features:

• Gold Series
• Ultimate High Quality CD
• Playable on Conventional CD Players
• Direct from Original Analog Master Tapes
• Made in Japan

Musicians:

• Charles Mingus, bass, piano
• John Handy, alto & tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Booker Ervin, tenor saxophone
• Shafi Hadi, tenor & alto saxophone
• Willie Dennis, trombone
• Jimmy Knepper, trombone
• Horace Parlan, piano
• Dannie Richmond, drums

Selections:

1. Better Git It In Your Soul
2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
3. Boogie Stop Shuffle
4. Self-Portrait In Three Colors
5. Open Letter To Duke
6. Bird Calls
7. Fables Of Faubus
8. Pussy Cat Dues
9. Jelly Roll