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Article: Opinion

The Importance of Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas

by C. Michael Bailey
November 7, 2012

Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

November 4, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Fantasy Records “Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 1st. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Vince Guaraldi at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) ...

Article: Album Review

George Cables: My Muse

by Greg Simmons
October 17, 2012

Pianist George Cables' relationship with the late Helen Wray must have been one joyous romance. Contrary to the expectations of an album dedicated to a departed loved one, My Muse is a collection of uplifting and, frankly, happy-sounding originals and standards. Take away the personal context and you'd swear Cables and company were just enjoying the ...

News: Recording

Fantasy Records Readies Vince Guaraldi Trio's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" [2012 Remastered & Expanded Edition]

August 23, 2012

Set for October 9th, 2012 release, new deluxe CD reissue features 24-bit remastering from original stereo masters and three holiday bonus tracks. A green vinyl LP edition will also be issued. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas [2012 Remastered & Expanded Edition] will be released by the Fantasy label in time ...

Article: Book Review

Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 31, 2012

Vince Guaraldi at the Piano Derrick Bang 390 pages ISBN: 978-0-7864-5902-5 McFarland Books 2012 Based on Derrick Bang's encyclopedic biography of pianist Vince Guaraldi, you can draw two perhaps surprising conclusions about the subject's contribution to jazz. First, Guaraldi arguably hipped more listeners to this musical form ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Vince Guaraldi

July 17, 2012

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 piano player"--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 ...

News: Recording

Concord Music Group Releases Five New Titles In Very Best Of Jazz Series

July 11, 2012

Titles include the works of music legends Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi, The Bill Evans Trio, Thelonious Monk, and Cannonball Adderley LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group is launching five new titles in its Very Best Of jazz series, which showcases some of the very best tracks culled from the recordings of some of the most ...

Article: Book Excerpts

Vince Guaraldi at the Piano

by Derrick Bang
May 8, 2012

This article appears in the prologue of Vince Guaraldi at the Piano by Derrick Bang (McFarland Books, 2012).Prologue: “The Sound of Surprise" Saturday, October 4, 1958: shortly after midnight, at the first-ever Monterey Jazz Festival.It had been a busy day; indeed, it was already a long three-day weekend. Headliner Louis ...

Article: Album Review

Steve Denny Trio: Life in the Basement

Read "Life in the Basement" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
April 22, 2012

The basement is a rich metaphor, with all sorts of literary and emotional connotations. In pianist Steve Denny's case, it represents a place for gestation and growth, a lair in which to hunker down and do one's work. Denny was born and raised in Denver, studied music at Loyola University in Chicago where he graduated summa ...

Article: Opinion

Great Jazz Deserves To Be Heard And Seen At It's Best

by Toby Gleason
March 4, 2012

Why I'm filing a mass take-down notice on YouTubeFor several decades, my father committed himself to championing the popular emergence of jazz, and engendering proper respect for the musicians who devoted their careers and lives to the music that had long been dismissed to the sidelines of main stream American culture. Ralph J. Gleason ...