199.00 PLN

XRCD24:

Nr kat.: AWMXR0024
Label  : Artistry Music (USA)

Rudy Van Gelder's original Blue Note 2-track analog tapes were meticulously mastered to XRCD by engineer Alan Yoshida and producer Joe Harley. Each XRCD comes with deluxe hard-bound book style packaging with original liner notes and high resolution B&W session photos. These are the highest quality analog to digital transfers from tape to CD available! Kenny Drew was an underrated master of bebop. A brilliant pianist who started with the example of Bud Powell and then developed his own sound within the style, in the '50s Drew worked with the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Buddy DeFranco, Dinah Washington and Art Blakey. By 1960 when he recorded Undercurrent, Drew had already led ten albums of his own, mostly with duos and trios. Oddly enough he only had the opportunity to lead two albums in his life for Blue Note, an early effort from 1953 and the classic Undercurrent. Matched in a quintet with the young firebrand trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and the always-stimulating tenor-saxophonist Hank Mobley, the 32-year old pianist was ready to truly make his mark. All six compositions are his, and in his accompaniment of the passionate horn men and in his soulful solos, Drew shows that he was one of the major hard bop stylists. He would not make another album as a leader until 1973, nine years after he permanently moved to Europe, but Kenny Drew’s playing on Undercurrent, a superb and very well-recorded Blue Note album that is arguably his finest work, is timeless. To bez wątpienia najlepsza płyta w dyskografii Kenny Drewa. Bardzo wpływowy muzyk, pobierałnaukę u takich sław jak Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Buddy DeFranco, Dinah Washington i Art Blakey. Wspólnie z nimi nagrywał wiele płyt. Ale wreszcie odważył się na próbę autorską. Wszystkie utwory sa jego kompozycjami. W nich wyraził to co w jego rozumieniu jazzu jest ważne - rytm, zdecydowanie, wyraźna linia stylistyczna, znakomite współdziałanie wszystkich muzyków. To bardzo ważne nagranie w całej historii Blue Note. teraz - o nadzwyczaj audiofilskim brzmieniu. Wybitnie kolekcjonerska!

Płyty XRCD - DO ODTWORZENIA W KAŻDYM TYPIE CZYTNIKA CD i DVD . Gwarantują niespotykaną wcześniej analogową jakość brzmienia, znakomitą scenę i wyjątkową przejrzystość oraz kolorystykę dźwięku.