Henry Mancini The Music From Peter Gunn Hybrid Stereo SACD

Hybrid Stereo SACD!
Remastered By Ryan Smith At Sterling Sound From Original Analog Tapes!
This is not only a great album but a key piece of jazz and pop music history. Back in 1958, "Peter Gunn" was one of the unexpected hits of the new television season, capturing the imagination of millions of viewers by mixing private eye action with a jazz setting. Composer Henry Mancini was more than fluent in jazz, and his music nailed down the popularity of the series. With the main title theme, a driving, ominous, exciting piece of music to lead off the album, The Music From Peter Gunn became a huge hit, charting extraordinarily high for a television soundtrack and doing so well that RCA Victor came back the next year asking for a second helping (More Music From Peter Gunn) from Mancini.
Blake Edwards' series "Peter Gunn" was the big surprise success on American television in the 1958 TV season. The cases of a private detective, set in the jazz milieu, attracted millions of viewers in front of their television screens. The famous theme tune and the very jazzy soundtrack to Gunn's forays through Los Angeles at night were provided by Henry Mancini, and it was his music that contributed greatly to the popularity of the series. "The Music From Peter Gunn" is not only a great album, but also a key piece in jazz and pop music history.
With the driving, ominous, exciting title theme that opens the album, "The Music From Peter Gunn" became a huge hit. The album made it to the top of the charts - unusually for a TV soundtrack - and did so well that RCA Mancini asked for a second look the following year ("More Music From Peter Gunn"). Many other artists later recorded "Peter Gunn" as well and landed hits with their cover versions, such as Ray Anthony, Duane Eddy, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Blues Brothers and Art of Noise.
Remastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analogue tape, "The Music From Peter Gunn" is now available on SACD for the first time.
The music holds up: "Session At Pete's Pad" is a superb workout for trumpets of Pete Candoli, Uan Rasey, Conrad Gozzo and Frank Beach, while Barney Kessel's electric guitar gets the spotlight during "Dreamsville." "Sorta Blue" and "Fallout" are full-ensemble pieces that constitute quintessential "cool" West Coast jazz of the period. Now The Music From Peter Gunn is back bigger and better than ever! Now available as a Hybrid Stereo SACD. This Hybrid SACD plays in both CD and SACD players, as well as all SACD-compatible DVD players. A great title, a brilliant reissue - what could be better? Exceptional!
"No ensemble has ever played it [the driving theme from Peter Gunn] better than on this recording, and the rest of the music is classic Mancini jazz... [T]hese SACDS are sonic classics that probably come as close as possible to the sound of the original LPs." - Arthur Lintgen, The Absolute Sound, April 2017

Features:

• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
• Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound from original analog tape

Selections:

1. Peter Gunn
2. Sorta Blue
3. The Brothers Go To Mother's
4. Dreamsville
5. Session at Pete's Pad
6. Soft Sounds
7. Fallout!
8. The Floater
9. Slow and Easy
10. A Profound Gass
11. Brief and Breezy
12. Not From Dixie