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Vince Guaraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas Audio CD

A fair review of the Vince Guaraldi "Charlie Brown Christmas" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Vince Guaraldi reviews here, or go back to the Vince Guaraldi tabs.

Vince Guaraldi Band: Vince Guaraldi
Title: Charlie Brown Christmas
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Release Date: 2003-09-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: O Tannenbaum 2: What Child Is This? 3: My Little Drum 4: Linus and Lucy 5: Christmas Time Is Here [Instrumental] 6: Christmas Time Is Here [Vocal Version] 7: Skating 8: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 9: Christmas Is Coming 10: Für Elise 11: Christmas Song 12: Greensleeves

Can't go wrong.
We all grew up with his music on the Peanuts specials and this is one of the classic compositions we all remember and enjoy. Vince Gauraldi was a jazz piano genius plain and simple. If you have a Super Audio setup at home or not, relax and listen to this collection of Christmas treats. . . you will be glad you did.


Charlie Brown Christmas SACD - Amazing
The CD format of this turned me on to Vince Guaraldi many years ago, and I became a huge fan of his, so when SACD versions of his music started coming out, I had to buy them. Not only is Vince Guaraldi a musical genius, but SACD is the only audio format that gets close to the audio purity in the old analog recordings.

Charlie Brown has a special place to many of us, and the music almost made the show for me, so I can relive the feelings that the show evoked by listening to the music year after year, and I listen to it regardless of the season. It's the only "Christmas" music that I listen to outside of the winter months, and I treat my sound system to it regularly.

This is easily one of my favorite SACD's, and I highly recommend it to anyone who has fond memories of the music of Charlie Brown and has the appropriate equipment to enjoy SACD.

As a warning, I do not recommend buying the SACD version of this disc unless you are sure that your system can take advantage of SACD's. In my opinion, if you don't have at least a small fanaticism for audio quality and/or music, then SACD's won't sound any better to you, even if you have many thousands of dollars sunk into your stereo and a very nice SACD player, (normal CD and DVD and even Blu-Ray players do not support SACD unless they explicitly say that they do, and those formerly named players will just play the normal CD audio tracks that are on the SACD disc, so you get none of SACD's audio benefit. )

For most people, MP3 and iTunes audio formats are good enough, but for anyone who is trying to get every ounce of enjoyment out of SACD's before they are no longer supported, this SACD is a classic and an absolute treasure to my collection, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.


One of the best Christmas albums, sounds great on SACD

It's a Monster Cable special to highlight HD audio. I actually own a special high definition format CD of this same album.

While the audio on the HD was good, the quality between the different formats did not seem to change at all. Very difficult to hear any variation and in truth not that much better than a regular CD version.

I bought this to compare and the result is pretty typical of most SACD format albums I have. IT sound tremendously better under a SACD format.
It's just seems smoother and more complete. Sounds don't get cutoff at the tail end of a note and seem to have that natural fade it should have.

Highly recommended for anybody with a SACD capable player.


Great way for kids to be exposed to Jazz, however the SACD, UGG!

Also finishing off the Vince Guaraldi Trio is Fred Marshall, Monty Budwig on bass, although the SACD lacks in sound compared to others the bass is tight and deep coming out of your speakers. Oscar nominee Vince Guaraldi on piano delivers classic smooth jazzy beats for the holiday season from the 1965 Classic and prime time Emmy winner A Charlie Brown Christmas. Jerrhy Granelli, Colin Bailey on drums and the Mastering of George Horn.
Audiophiles will notice an improvement from this hybrid sacd over a regular cd others may not. Being a hybrid this will play on all cds players as well as super audio players, where sacds alone will not. The stereo sound is adequate and quite good with deep tight bass however I'd also love to hear this perhaps in a 5. 1 Dvd audio.
This is a great add to any collection and a good introduction of jazz to children. Whether played soothingly low while a child is making a Christmas list with that Red Ryder BB gun or perhaps mom and dad put it on Christmas morning as the kids open presents. Maybe at the end of a long and busy day in traffic Christmas shopping you come home and put on this cd, fire up the fireplace, and just kick back and enjoy.
Happy Holidays.
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Wonderful Music For All Times Of The Year
His compositional genious is what really makes many of the Peanuts specials. I am a huge Vince Guaraldi fan. A Peanuts Christmas is his first and, in my opinion, all-time best Peanuts soundtrack. For those who love Jazz and Christmas music as much as I do, there is no way you can go wrong. This particular CD has a few added bonuses that have not appeared on albums in the past.

For other Guaraldi fans, be sure to look for the new offering compiled by his son David - Vince Guaraldi & The Lost Cues. Included are many wonderful nuggets from various Peanuts specials that have not appeared on any other album. Check it out on [. . . ].


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