Small Batch & Deluxe Editions of Vince Guaraldi’s Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus Announced. #jazz

Celebrating Vince Guaraldi Trio’s Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus with a Small Batch pressing & bonus-filled deluxe reissues.

We're proud to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Vince Guaraldi’s breakthrough album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus —featuring the GRAMMY® Award-winning instrumental hit “Cast Your Fate to the Wind”—with a variety of reissues. Leading the pack is a Small Batch one-step vinyl reissue of the classic album, which was cut from its original analog tapes by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI using Neotech’s VR900 compound and a one-step lacquer process, allowing for the utmost level of musical detail, clarity, and dynamics. Exclusive to CraftRecordings.com and limited to 3,000 copies worldwide. Learn more about the Small Batch series here.

Also available to pre-order now is an Expanded Deluxe edition of the album, which offers 16 bonus tracks, including 12 previously unreleased selections, with outtakes and alternate takes of nearly every track on the album. This definitive edition will be released as a 3-LP, 2-CD, or 24-track digital collection, with newly remastered audio by engineer Paul Blakemore. The classic album is cut from the original analog master, while the bonus material was transferred from the original analog tapes by Plangent Processes. Lacquers for the 3-LP edition were cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTI on 180-gram vinyl.   Both physical formats include new, in-depth liner notes by jazz writer Andrew Gilbert. The digital offering comes in standard and Hi-Res options. The CD and Digital formats will release on November 18th with the LP set due to follow on February 24th. An unreleased outtake of “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” is available now to stream/download.

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