Craft Recordings, the Catalog Division of
Concord Music, has announced a high-end vinyl reissue of the Vince
Guaraldi Trio’s beloved jazz album, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Due out November
17th, the LP will be released on 180-gram vinyl, and housed in an old-school
style, tip-on jacket, featuring the rarely seen artwork from the original 1965
album. Lacquers for the album were cut by George Horn and Anne-Marie Suenram at
Fantasy Studios, while the vinyl was pressed at Quality Record Pressings.
A Charlie Brown Christmas, certified 4X Platinum by the RIAA
in 2016, is one of the best-selling jazz albums in history, second only to
Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue; and it’s no surprise: Guaraldi’s engaging score to
the synonymous holiday television special has introduced generations of
children and their parents to the joys of jazz music, with tracks like the
instantly recognizable “Linus and Lucy,” and yuletide favorite “Christmas Time
Is Here.” The album was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame in 2007 and the
Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry five years later, and
continues to be a perennial favorite, thanks to annual airings of the Christmas
TV special.
A native of San Francisco, Vince Guaraldi became one of
America’s most successful jazz artists during the course of his lifetime.
Though Guaraldi’s legacy is most famously tied to his association with Peanuts,
he was already an established, GRAMMY® Award-winning artist by the time that
producer Lee Mendelson tapped him to score the first of many animated specials
based on the Charles Schulz-penned cartoons. In a 2003 interview, excerpted
from the biography Vince Guaraldi at the Piano (Derrick Bang; McFarland Books),
Mendelson declared, “There was no doubt in my mind that if we hadn’t had that
Guaraldi score, we wouldn’t have had the franchise we later enjoyed.”
Track List:
Side A
1. O Tannenbaum
2. What Child Is This
3. My Little Drum
4. Linus & Lucy
5. Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental)
Side B
1. Christmas Time Is Here (vocal)
2. Skating
3. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
4. Christmas Is Coming
5..Für Elise
6. The Christmas Song
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