Numbered, Limited Edition - Only 250 Copies!Japanese Import UHQCD!
26 Disc Box Set Celebrating 25th Anniversary of Venus Records!
Playable on any CD player, the Ultimate High Quality CD greatly surpasses all previous CDs before it!
Venus Records celebrates their 25th Anniversary with this box set containing 25 albums plus 1 Benefit album on the high-quality format of UHQCD.
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!
Each disc is packaged in an XRCD-like luxury digipak complete with full color CD booklet.
Features:
• Numbered Limited Edition - Only 250 Copies
• 26 CD Box Set
• Made in Japan
• Venus Direct Mix - Hyper Magnum Sound
• Ultimate High Quality CD
• Playable on conventional CD players
Selections:
VP 25-1 - Eddie Higgins Quartet/Smoke Gets In Your Eyes:
1. Melancholy Rhapsody
2. It's A Lonesome Old Town
3. You Don't Know What Love Is
4. By Myself
5. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
6. Lullaby Of The Leaves
7. When The Sun Comes Out
8. Love Letters
9. When You Wish Upon A Star
10. All This And Heaven Too
11. You're My Everything
VP-25-2 - Bill Charlap Trio/'S Wonderful:
1. Time After Time
2. My Shining Hour
3. The Blue Room
4. Boy, What Love Has Done To Me
5. Isfahan
6. Lover
7. Something To Live For
8. 'S Wonderful
9. Summer Serenade
10. Only The Lonely
VP-25-3 - Richie Beirach Trio/What Is This Thing Called Love?
1. What Is This Thing Called Love?
2. Leaving
3. Night And Day
4. Goodbye
5. Autumn Leaves
6. All The Things You Are
7. Pinocchio
8. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
9. Nardis
10. On Green Dolphin Street
VP-25-4 - Nicki Parrott/The Last Time I Saw Paris:
1. Under Paris Skies
2. The Windmill Of Your Mind
3. Chanson de Maxence
4. Nuages - All For You
5. C'est Si Bon
6. I Will Wait For You
7. Hymne L'Amour
8. L'Ame des Poetes
9. The Last Time I Saw Paris
10. The River Seine
11. La Mer - Beyond the Sea
12. La Vie En Rose
13. If You Go Away - Ne Me Quitte Pas
14. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
VP-25-5 - Brian Lynch/Bolero Nights:
1. Afinque
2. La Sitiera
3. Celia
4. Fire Waltz
5. Delilah
6. I'm A Fool To Want You
7. You've Changed
VP-25-6 - Phil Woods with Strings/The Thrill Is Gone:
1. And When We're Young
2. I Get Along Without You Very Well
3. You Go To My Head
4. It Never Entered My Mind
5. The Thrill Is Gone
6. Easy To Love
7. The Nearness Of You
8. If I Should Lose You
9. Solitude
VP-25-7 - New York Trio/Blues In The Night:
1. Blues In The Night
2. I Could Have Danced All Night
3. Blue Skies
4. You Better Go Now
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Tenderly
7. Embraceable You
8. Don't Explain
VP-25-8 - Archie Shepp Quartet/Blue Ballads:
1. Little Girl Blue
2. More Than You Know
3. Blue In Green
4. Blue And Sentimental
5. Cry Me A River
6. If I Should Lose You
7. Alone Together
VP-25-9 - Eric Alexander Quartet/Gentle Ballads II:
1. Mona Lisa
2. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
3. Funny
4. I'm A Fool To Want You
5. Li'l Darlin'
6. Look Of Love
7. My Ship
8. Who Can I Turn To
9. Time After Time
VP-25-10 - Sir Roland Hanna Trio/Milan, Paris, New York:
1. Django
2. Skating In Central Park
3. Afternoon In Paris
4. Milano
5. Bag's Groove
6. New York 19
7. Portrait Of John Lewis
8. The Clarion Bells Of Zurich
9. Perugia
VP-25-11 - Nicki Parrott and Ken Peplowski/Like A Lover:
1. Blue Moon
2. Everything I Love
3. Hey There
4. Sway / Whatever Lola Wants
5. I've Grown Accustomed To His Face
6. Sleepin' Bee
7. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
8. When I Grow Too Old To Dream
9. Like A Lover
10. Mad About The Boy
11. Here, There And Everywhere
12. What'll I Do?
13. How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me
14. For No One
VP-25-12 - Nicolas Montier and Saxomania/Lullaby:
1. Lullaby Of The Leaves
2. Lullaby In Blue
3. Paris Lullaby
4. Biscottes
5. Hush-A-Bye
6. Tokyo Lullaby
7. Summertime
8. Blue Star
9. Lullaby Of Birdland
10. Early Autumn
11. Saxomania In Blue
12. Laura
13. Porto Moniz
VP-25-13 - David Hazeltine Trio/Cleopatra's Dream:
1. Cleopatra's Dream
2. Tempus Fugit
3. Glass Enclosure
4. Wail
5. Bouncing With Bud
6. Danceland
7. Strictly Confidential
8. Dance Of Infidels
9. I'll Keep Loving You
10. This One's For Bud
VP-25-14 - Jimmy Scott and The Jazz Expressions/All of Me:
1. Opening
2. All Of Me
3. You Don't Know What Love Is
4. I'll Close My Eyes
5. Pennies From Heaven
6. Time After Time
7. Sometime I Feel Like A Motherless Child
8. I Cried For You
9. Encore #1
10. Why Was I Born?
11. Encore #2
12. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
VP-25-15 - Cedar Walton Trio/Midnight Waltz:
1. Bremond's Blues
2. Turquoise
3. Cedar's Blues
4. Midnight Waltz
5. Holy Land
6. Theme For Jobim
7. Dear Ruth
8. The Vision
9. Bolivia
10. Ugetsu
VP-25-16 - Enrico Rava/Renaissance:
1. It Ain't Necessarily So
2. Dear Old Stockholm
3. Good Bye
4. My Funny Valentine
5. Vision
6. Fran Dance
7. Nature Boy
8. Gnid
9. There's No You
VP-25-17 - Barney Wilen/Inside Nitty=Gritty:
1. Granadas - Take 1
2. Parisian Thoroughfare - Take 1
3. Dig - Take 1
4. Caravan - Take 1
5. Granadas - Take 2
6. My Ideal - Take 1
7. Blue Lou - Take 1
8. Blue Lou - Take 2
9. Parlez-Moi D'Amour - Take 1
10. Ah Si Vous Connaissiez Ma Poule - Take 1
11. The Trolley Song - Take 1
12. Valse Hot - Take 1
13. Valse Hot - Take 2
14. Parisian Thoroughfare - Take 2
VP-25-18 - The Jacky Terrasson Jazz Trio/Lover Man:
1. Donna Lee
2. Nardis
3. First Child
4. In Your Own Sweet Way
5. Wail
6. Lost
7. Broadway
8. Lover Man
9. Close Enough For Love
10. Love For Sale
11. Caravan
VP-25-19 - Peter Bernstein +3/Stranger In Paradise:
1. Venus Blues
2. Stranger In Paradise
3. Luiza
4. How Little We Know
5. Bobblehead
6. Just A Thought
7. This Is Always
8. Soul Stirrin'
9. That Sunday, That Summer
10. Autumn Nocturne
VP-25-20 - Masahiko Togashi & J. J. Spirits/So What - Live at Pit Inn Shinjuku:
1. Monk's Hat Blues - Milestone
2. All The Things You Are
3. Autumn In New York
4. It's You Or No One
5. So What - Monk's Hat Blues
VP-25-21 - Dino Rubino/Mi Sono Innamorato Di Te:
1. Mi Sono Innamorato Di Te
2. Lotus Blossom
3. You And The Night And Music
4. If I Should Lose You
5. Eternal Triangle
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. The Old Country
8. Il Matrimonio
VP-25-22 - Joe Beck Trio/Girl Talk featuring Joey Defrancesco:
1. Gingi
2. Emily
3. Girl Talk
4. Have You Met Miss Jones?
5. Laura
6. Little Girl Blue
7. Nica's Dream
8. Ruby
9. Sophisticated Lady
10. Stella By Starlight
VP-25-23 - John Di Martino Romantic Jazz Trio/Magical Mystery:
1. Epistrophy
2. Criss Cross
3. Bemsha Swing
4. Ask Me Now
5. Rhythm-A-Ning
6. Round Midnight
7. Well You Needn't
8. Pannonica
9. Eronel
10. Ugly Beauty
11. Magical Mystery - for Monk and Murakami
12. Blue Monk
13. In Walked Bud
VP-25-24 - Francesco Cafiso Quartet/Seven Steps to Heaven:
1. Seven Steps To Heaven
2. Green Chimneys
3. Yesterdays
4. On The Trail
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Milestones
7. Crazeology
8. Skylark
VP-25-25 - Massimo Farao' & Aldo Zunino/Bohemia After Dark:
1. Bohemia After Dark
2. Ray's Idea
3. Laverne's Walk
4. Visitation
5. Del Sasser
6. Third Plane
7. Tricrotism
8. F.S.R. (For Sonny Rollins)
9. Christina
10. The Late Late Blues
11. Awful Mean
12. Saudade
13. Unit Seven
VP-25-26 - Isolajazz Festival 2017 (Bobby Durham's Jazz Festival/Venus Records All Stars)
