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Jazz Musician of the Day: Vince Guaraldi
All About Jazz is celebrating Vince Guaraldi's birthday today! By Derrick Bang Like most so-called overnight successes, Vincent Anthony Guaraldi—who forever described himself as “a reformed boogie-woogie pianist"—worked hard for his big break. The man eventually dubbed “Dr. Funk" by his compatriots was born in San Francisco on July 17, 1928; he graduated from Lincoln High ...
Concord Music Group Team Ups With Independent Record Retailers For Collectors' Special
Exclusive PEANUTS record player to be sold as perfect companion to 50th-anniversary remastered vinyl of Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Fantasy Records, via Concord Music Group, is pleased to announce a collaboration with select record stores to sell an exclusive accompaniment: a remastered vinyl reissue of Jazz Impressions of a Boy ...
Vince Guaraldi and Charlie Brown
American post-war snark dates back to October 2, 1950. On that date, Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts comic strip was syndicated by Universal, and Charlie Brown, the strip's protagonist, evolved into an upbeat punching bag for a wide range of recalcitrant characters ranging from an annoying girl to a wiseguy dog. Schultz had tapped into the social ...
Concord Music Group Reissues Vince Guaraldi's "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
Remastered vinyl and CD recordings mark 50th anniversary of the soundtrack to a TV documentary that never aired LOS ANGELES, CA: Most of us recall A Charlie Brown Christmas—the classic animated special that originally aired on network television during the holiday season of 1965—as the moment when pianist Vince Guaraldi first breathed life into the entire ...
Saul Zaentz
The passing of Saul Zaentz yesterday at 92 brings to mind the crucial part he played in expanding Fantasy Records from a vital, colorful, but minor independent label into a pop hit-maker and a major repository of jazz recordings from the late 1940s on. He is being remembered in obituaries around the world as the producer ...
The Rob Parton Big Band: Christmas Time Is Here
by Jack Bowers
The only plausible impetus for releasing an album of Christmas themes so close to the holiday itself is the inclusion of music that transcends the season and may be auditioned and appreciated throughout the year. Trombonist Chris McDonald accomplished that with his splendid album In the Mood for Christmas, and trumpeter Rob Parton has mirrored that ...
Don Cherry: Live in Stockholm
by Florence Wetzel
Trumpeter and world-music pioneer Don Cherry had a very special relationship with Sweden, a place he called home for twenty years. And Sweden had a special relationship with Cherry: the country and its musicians recognized the master in their midst, and in 1972 the state-subsidized record company Caprice put out the double album Organic Music Society ...
2013 Holiday Gift Guide
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
One of the longstanding traditions around the 'Dome, along with Taco Tuesdays and the monthly Google Nude® check to see if any of my favorite actresses have “accidentally" Tweeted “private" pictures of themselves recently, is the annual viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Few things bring back the warm memories of childhood and invoke the true ...
SOPAC Hosts Jazz In December Including Glenn Miller Orchestra
South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) 1 SOPAC Way South Orange, NJ, 07079 To purchase tickets, contact SOPAC at 973.313.ARTS or visit SOPACnow.org. FRI 12/06 at 8:00PM DAVID BENOIT “A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS” $40-$65 A wonderful holiday program conceived by Grammy nominated Jazz pianist David Benoit that will ...
Mike Clark: East Bay Funk
by George Colligan
[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth]I remember the first time I heard the classic Herbie Hancock album Thrust (Columbia, 1974). It was on the radio, if you can believe it. The song “Actual Proof" burned into my brain: I had been a fan of Herbie's, especially of ...
