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Vince Guaraldi: Oaxaca

Read "Oaxaca" reviewed by David Rickert


"Dr. Funk" may seems like an odd nickname for Vince Guaraldi, most known for composing the music for the Peanuts specials, yet this is how he was known by his peers. While there are certainly others more deserving of the moniker, this new reissue will shed some light as to how he got it. For in ...

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Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Read "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" reviewed by David Rickert


By any standard, “Linus and Lucy" is a great song. Anyone over the age of seven is familiar with the melody, a catchy tune instantly identifiable with the Peanuts gang. It also put Vince Guaraldi, an artist who might otherwise have been a one-hit wonder with “Cast Your Fate To the Wind" and relegated to the ...

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Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Samba de Orpheus 2.Mahna de Carnaval 3. O Nosso Amor 4. Generique 5. Cast Your Fate To the Wind 6. Moon River 7. Alma-Ville 8. Since I Fell For You.

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A Charlie Brown Christmas

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: Side A: O Tannenbaum; What Child Is This; My Little Drum; Linus & Lucy; Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental). Side B: Christmas Time Is Here (vocal); Skating; Hark, The Herald Angels Sing; Christmas Is Coming; Für Elise; The Christmas Song; Greensleeves.

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The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Linus and Lucy with the Band 2. The Charlie Brown Theme. The Charlie Brown Suite: 3. Intro with Linus and Lucy 4. Happiness Is 5. Peppermint Patty 6. Charlie Brown Theme 7. Rain, Rain Go Away 8. Red Baron 9. Closing 10. Cast Your Fate to the Wind

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Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas

Read "A Charlie Brown Christmas" reviewed by Robert Gilbert


Only a handful of jazz albums find their way into the collections of music lovers who would never call themselves jazz fans. Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is one, Getz/Gilberto is another, and Coltrane's A Love Supreme also comes to mind. For Christmas time, though, the album is Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack to the 1965 special A ...

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Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas

Read "A Charlie Brown Christmas" reviewed by Florence Wetzel


Just in time for the holidays, Fantasy has released a remaster of the classic soundtrack A Charlie Brown Christmas. The cartoon follows Charlie Brown's search for the true meaning of Christmas, and Vince Guaraldi's music is an integral part of this perennial holiday favorite. Guaraldi, born in 1928 in San Francisco and died in 1976 while ...

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Vince Guaraldi: The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites

Read "The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites" reviewed by David Rickert


Vince Guaraldi has earned a large degree of renown and cemented his place in musical history as the composer of “Linus and Lucy” and the rest of the music for the Charlie Brown TV specials. Guaraldi died in 1976, and thus this new collection is the first by the pianist to appear in quite some time. ...

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Vince Guaraldi: The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites

Read "The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites" reviewed by Russell Moon


New Age star pianist George Winston has collected tapes of eighty hours of previously unreleased recordings by the late pianist Vince Guaraldi, who died in 1976. Winston recently made these tapes available to Guaraldi's son David. Although the elder Guaraldi recorded this material for Fantasy and Warner Brothers, its current custodian is releasing the first batch ...

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Vince Guaraldi: Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus

Read "Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus" reviewed by David Rickert


If Vince Guaraldi is known for anything beyond the Charlie Brown specials, it will be a catchy little tune called “Cast Your Fate in the Wind.” Originally the B-side to an abbreviated version of “Samba de Orfeu,” the instantly appealing tune became a radio hit and the album was repackaged to feature the song prominently on ...


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