Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas Music SuperDisc (with Hang Tab) Price: $19.98

3 Different Surround Mixes to Choose From (Vince Guaraldi DVD)
The Vince Guaraldi Trio Performs The Greatest Christmas Album
While making the soundtrack in 1965 for the holiday television classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, Guaraldi's legendary jazz trio and a children's choir perfectly captured the holiday mood and spirit. ItÕs become the sound of Christmas and has found its way into millions of homes.

This Great Holiday Classic Sounds Even Better On SuperDisc
Besides the stereo disc included for your CD player or car stereo, Monster Music brings you the Vince Guaraldi Trio in full High Definition Surround Sound on a SuperDisc. Playable in any DVD player, SuperDisc lets you choose between more than one experience, like the "Front Row" experience that gives you the best seat in the house or the "On Stage Jazz Club" experience that puts you on-stage right in the middle of the band. And for audiophiles, there are even high Definition stereo tracks in 96K/24bit lossless audio.

SuperDisc Gives A Surround Experience From Your iPod
Direct from the master recordings are High Definition Digital Music files ready to download to any computer or portable music player that supports WMA (Windows), Apple Lossless, or AAC (Apple iPod). Even better are Dolby Headphone music files that simulate surround sound through any pair of headphones.

A Classic Christmas Album

It just isn't Christmas without Schroeder sitting on the floor, crouched over his miniature piano, playing the tune he named after his neighborhood pals. "Linus and Lucy" is one of the most recognizable jazz standards of all time. It has been covered by artists as diverse as Oscar Peterson and Steve Vai, and is indelibly connected to the life and work of Charles Schulz.

Charles Schulz was in a San Francisco taxi when he first heard the Vince Guaraldi Trio. The playful jazz melodies and light, allegro tempo seemed the perfect accompaniment to a documentary he was calling "A Boy Named Charlie Brown". The performance he heard was a live broadcast from a local nightclub. Schulz demanded to be driven directly to the club. He told Guaraldi about the pilot for a documentary and asked if he would be interested in collaborating. The San Francisco native known as Dr. Funk had already achieved great success with the Grammy-winning single, "Cast Your Fate To The Wind." He liked the idea and composed what was originally called "Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown." In 1965 Schulz suggested that he do a Christmas album. The trio consisted of Fred Marshall on bass and Jerry Granelli on drums; they recorded in a San Francisco studio in 1965. Those recordings became the soundtrack for the classic television special A Charlie Brown Christmas and one of the most popular holiday albums of all time.

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