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Release Round-Up: Week of April 11

April 11, 2025 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

a boy named charlie brown

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The Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown: Expanded Edition (Fantasy/Craft) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Craft Recordings delivers a newly expanded edition of 1964's Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown, the first in a series of fateful collaborations between jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi and Charles M. Schulz's lovable Peanuts characters.  The 2CD set offers a fresh remaster of Guaraldi's initial nine compositions devoted to Charlie Brown and friends - including the immortal "Linus and Lucy" - and adds a bonus disc of 16 rare and unreleased outtakes. It's the latest in an incredible bounty of discoveries from Guaraldi's discography of late, including sonically upgraded reissues and premiere releases of many of the Peanuts soundtracks that would come after. Grammy-winning engineer Paul Blakemore has overseen the upgraded audio, with Guaraldi biographer Derrick Bang supplying liner notes. (The original LP's liner notes by producer Lee Mendelson and Ralph J. Gleason will also be retained.) In addition to this set, the first 14 tracks on the bonus disc will be released tomorrow by Craft on sky-blue vinyl as a Record Store Day exclusive.​ Read more here!

Replacements Tim

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The Replacements, Tim: Deluxe Edition (Sire/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Recent years for Rhino have afforded for lavish and occasionally dramatic box sets devoted to the work of post-punk heroes The Replacements. The group's most recent may have been the most shocking of all: Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) was a deep dive into the group's 1985 breakthrough - their first release on Sire Records, featuring favorites "Bastards of Young" and "Left of the Dial." The centerpiece of the rarities-packed 4CD/LP box was a dramatic new mix of the original album by original engineer Ed Stasium, unclogging producer Thomas Erdelyi (better known as Tommy Ramone)'s dishwater-cloudy mix and serving as perhaps an ideal introduction to the group. Today's 2CD set and tomorrow's 2LP vinyl set for Record Store Day bring together both mixes of Tim.

Talking Heads Live on Tour 78

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Talking Heads, Live on Tour '78 (Sire/Rhino, 2025) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Moving forward from last year's deluxe edition of Talking Heads: 77, Rhino next releases a remastered version of a show the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers put on at Cleveland's Agora Ballroom at the end of 1978, in promotion of that year's sophomore release More Songs About Buildings and Food. The set was released on vinyl a few months later as part of Warner Bros.' Live on Tour promotional series, but this edition, working from the original analogue tapes, unearths a previously unreleased version of "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel."  This restored concert hits vinyl tomorrow for RSD!

Kenny Burrell and Art Blakey On View at the Five Spot

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Kenny Burrell with Art Blakey, On View at the Five Spot Cafe: The Complete Masters (Blue Note/UMe)

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3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

A celebrated jazz guitarist, cornerstone of the Blue Note roster in the late '50s and early '60s and still-standing link to a thriving era in American jazz, Kenny Burrell will be celebrated this spring with a deluxe revisitation of his first live release.  On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters collects the original 1960 album, recorded in New York City with a killer quintet line-up, along with nine additional tracks from the same club dates - six of which are being released for the first time. Available on two CDs or three LPs - the latter an entry in the label's ongoing Tone Poet reissue series - the expanded On View will be remastered by Kevin Gray from original analog masters recorded by Rudy Van Gelder. It'll be packaged in a tri-fold tip-on jacket that comes with a booklet featuring unseen photos, liner notes by Syd Schwartz, and an interview between Burrell (93 years old and counting!) and Blue Note's president, producer/musician Don Was.​ Read more here!

Version 1.0.0

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Marian McPartland, At the Peninsula Library (Liberation Hall)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Liberation Hall unveils a previously unissued 19-track set from the British-born jazz piano great and longtime radio broadcaster Marian McPartland (1918-2013).  This December 10, 1972 concert from Long Island's Peninsula Library features Rusty Gilder on bass and Joe Corsello on drums; the trio tackled standards both classic ("Stella by Starlight," "Satin Doll") and contemporary ("Fire and Rain," "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head").  Barry Singer and Paul de Barros provide new liner notes, and the artwork also contains rarely seen photos.  Available on CD and vinyl.

Summers Fripp Complete

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Andy Summers and Robert Fripp, The Complete Recordings (DGM/Panegryic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

A unique team-up between two celebrated guitarists - Andy Summers of The Police and Robert Fripp of King Crimson - has been revisited with a bevy of new material.  The Complete Recordings 1981-1984 expands and remasters the duo's two studio albums together - 1982's I Advance Masked and 1984's Bewitched - along with Mother Hold the Candle Steady, a newly-created album of outtakes from their joint sessions. The Blu-ray Audio includes hi-resolution remasters of both albums, new remixes, and "Can We Record Tony?" - an audio documentary created from Fripp's archival cassettes of the pair's earliest improvisations together. Liner notes by Crimson biographer Sid Smith feature new quotes from the guitarists about their work, as well as insight from Fripp's longtime engineer David Singleton on not only remixing the original albums but finding and mixing the outtakes.  Out today in the U.K. and due April 25 in North America. Get more details here!

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Nellie McKay, Hey Guys, Watch This (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay's new album was recorded in Charleston, West Virginia with the Carpenter Ants - a.k.a. Michael Lipton, Ted Harrison, Jupie Little, and Mark Bates - and features a set of McKay originals with Appalachian and country flavors.  The album, previously available directly from the artist, gets a fresh mastering here by Michael Graves and newly updated artwork.

Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Summers, Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell, Marian McPartland, Nellie McKay, Robert Fripp, Talking Heads, The Replacements, Vince Guaraldi

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  1. Harry Cohen says

    April 11, 2025 at 10:30 am

    Marian m part land's Piano Jazz on NPR was a weekend highlight for many years. This release is a " must have" for me.

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