Vince Guaraldi Trio

Vince Guaraldi Trio – Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus (Deluxe Expanded Edition) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 1, 2023 · Comments off

This deluxe 2CD 24-track digital collection, greatly expands Vince Guaraldi Trio’s landmark achievement, which included the Grammy winning hit ‘Cast Your Fate to the Wind’ (No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart). The set features 16 bonus tracks including alternate takes and previously unreleased music along with new liner notes. Even without the presence of his tune ‘Cast Your Fate to the Wind’, a genuine and all-too-rare instrumental hit that reached No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, Guaraldi’s 1962 album ‘Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus’ was a landmark achievement that introduced a trio with a singularly alluring sound. The combination of burnished lyricism, rhythmic subtly and exquisite dynamic calibration set it apart, but the group’s impact flowed equally from its repertoire.

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Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas (Super Deluxe Edition) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 1, 2023 · Comments off

Vince Guaraldi’s score from the classic 1965 animated Peanuts special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, is subject of a major reissue campaign from Craft Recordings.

One the the best selling jazz albums of all time is explored across a number of formats, including a comprehensive 4CD+blu-ray super deluxe edition, which features hours of newly unearthed session tapes from Fantasy Records’ vaults. This set also offers a blu-ray audio with a Dolby Atmos Mix and hi-res stereo mixes.

In fact, the standard version of the album has now been upgraded with a new stereo mix from engineer, Paul Blakemore. This features on a special 2LP deluxe vinyl which offers 13 bonus alternates. An expanded CD edition mirrors this content.

A single LP vinyl edition maintains the original 1965 mix but for this reissue is offered in gold foil sleeved with embossing details. So the outside cover is gold, but the actual vinyl is available in a number of coloured vinyl variants, depending on retailer.

The super deluxe offers more than 50 never-before-heard outtakes from five recording sessions and features both mixes of the album on CD 1. It is housed in a hardcover book which helps to guide fans through the entire recording process, via new, in-depth sleeve notes by Derrick Bang – a Peanuts expert.

The single LP vinyl editions of A Charlie Brown Christmas are released on 16 September 2022. The super deluxe, 2LP and single CD editions follow on 14 October, via Craft Recordings.

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Vince Guaraldi Trio – Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus (1962) [Analogue Productions’ Remaster 2002] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · October 21, 2022 · Comments off

In the early Sixties, the Brazilian import called bossa nova swept through jazz. The music’s most prominent composer was Antonio Carlos Jobim, and his score for the 1959 motion picture “Black Orpheus” was packed with songs adopted by jazz musicians. Vince Guaraldi was one of the earliest to grasp the possibilities of bossa nova and recorded four of the Black Orpheus pieces in this 1962 album. He also played two standards and two of his own compositions. One of those originals was a pleasantly rhythmic little melody called “Cast Your Fate To The Wind” which cut like a beam of sunshine through the pop music gloom of the day, beat the odds against quality music and illuminated the upper regions of the national sales charts for nearly half a year.

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Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2012] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · October 21, 2022 · Comments off

Originally entitled Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown, this is an important album not only because it is Guaraldi’s first Peanuts soundtrack, but also because the music heard here probably introduced millions of kids (and their parents) to jazz from the mid-’60s onward.

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Vince Guaraldi Trio – Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus (Remastered) (1962/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 26, 2022 · Comments off

A few years later, millions fell in love with Guaraldi’s Peanuts music. But the pianist’s first big breakthrough and best album was this 1962 LP, which shot to #24 thanks to the #22 pop hit Cast Your Fate to the Wind . This reissue adds alternate takes of that Guaraldi original plus Manha De Carnaval; O Nosso Amor , and Felicidade.

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Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965/2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 26, 2022 · Comments off

The first time you listen to this disc you will undoubtedly be transported directly back to your childhood. Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters will go toe-tapping and funky-dancing through your mind’s eye. Play it a few more times, though (ignoring the dialogue snippets, if you can), and you will begin to truly revel in Guaraldi’s wonderful, humorous, deep piano playing. You’ll hear why he’s such an influence on new age ivory tickler George Winston, but you’ll also realize that Winston’s holiday music never quite sparkles with the underlying passion, and humor, that twinkles in these grooves. Buy it for the nostalgia–keep it because it will remain one of the most enchanting albums in your holiday collection.

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Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 26, 2022 · Comments off

Vince Guaraldi’s name will forever be inextricably linked to Charlie Brown’s, thanks to the iconic piano jazz music Guaraldi composed and performed with his trio for 17 Peanuts television specials and a feature film. It all started in 1964, with A Boy Named Charlie Brown, a never-aired documentary on Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz that first brought Snoopy and the gang to life. Producers wanted a jazz soundtrack and approached Guaraldi after Dave Brubeck said he was too busy. In two weeks Guaraldi came up with Linus And Lucy, the freshness of the music perfectly enhancing the simplicity of the animation.

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Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 22, 2021 · Comments off

Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown (stylized with quotation marks as Jazz Impressions of “A Boy Named Charlie Brown”) is the sixth studio album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio), released in the U.S. by Fantasy Records in December 1964. It is the soundtrack to the unreleased television documentary film entitled A Boy Named Charlie Brown.

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