Vince Guaraldi

Vince Guaraldi – It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Original Soundtrack Recording) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:20 minutes | 516 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

As Vince Guaraldi is honoured with the American Eagle Award by the National Music Council, Craft Recordings is celebrating Guaraldi’s 91st birthday by the definite edition of his iconic music for It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. What you will hear on most tracks of this new and improved “best” version of the soundtrack are the musical cues as recorded by Vince and crew before they were edited for the television special, in show order, as well as a selection of alternate takes.

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Vince Guaraldi – Winter Moods (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:38:49 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © nagel heyer records

Vince Guaraldi was a well-respected jazz pianist whose greatest success came from avenues usually closed to contemporary jazz artists: he enjoyed a hit single at a time when jazz had largely been exiled from the pop charts, and he scored a series of very successful animated television specials (namely the Charlie Brown seasonal specials scores and soundtracks for which his name has become synonymous), a medium where cookie-cutter pop music was traditionally the order of the day. Beginning with 1962’s Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus and its Gold-certified single “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” (the B-side of “Samba de Orpheus”) and its Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Jazz Composition, Guaraldi was on his way to a run of hit records including a few with Brazilian guitar great Bola Sete, and 1964’s The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi and Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown, Guaraldi cemented his place in American jazz via his popularity in his hometown of San Francisco. His association with Peanuts also opened the door to a slew of other television work. Over the next 12 years before his death in 1976, he would start and abandon a recording label, release six more albums, and keep up a full schedule of live performances with his own group and playiung with with orchestras in addition to his television commitments.

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Vince Guaraldi – Moods (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:39:26 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © nagel heyer records

Tracks mainly from albums 1957 A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing and 1962 Cast Your Fate to the Wind: Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus. Digitally remastered.

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