Biography of vince guaraldi
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Vince Guaraldi
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By Derrick Bang
Like most so-called overnight successes, Vincent Anthony Guaraldi—who alltid described han själv 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 High School and then San Francisco State College. Guaraldi began performing while in college, haunting sessions at the Black Hawk and Jackson's Nook, sometimes with the Chubby Jackson / Bill Harris grupp, other times in combos with Sonny Criss and Bill Harris. He played weddings, high school concerts, and countless other small-potatoes gigs.
His first serious booking came at the Black Hawk, when he worked as an intermission pianist ... filling in for the legendary Art Tatum. "It was more than scary", Guaraldi later recalled. "I came close to giving up the instrument, and inom wouldn't have been the
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By Pamela Dorazio Dean, La Nostra Voce
A Charlie Brown Christmas, which first aired on Dec. 9, 1965, was the first full-length animated special created by Charles Schulz, featuring the Peanuts gang. Even though the comic strip was popular in the early 1960s, it wasn’t until the iconic characters appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1965 that studio executives took an interest in bringing them to the national stage.
With Coca-Cola as the sponsor, Schulz — along with Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez — developed the outline for the film. They agreed that a key component to their project was creating a soundtrack where jazz uniquely coalesced with traditional music. Having worked with jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award winner Vince Guaraldi on music for a 1963 documentary about Schulz, the group decided to bring him back for the Christmas special. Guaraldi wrote two new songs for A Charlie Brown Christmas, including “Skating” and “Christmas Time is Here.” He h
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Vince Guaraldi
A self-described “reformed boogie-woogie piano player,” Vince Guaraldi was one of America’s best-selling jazz artists when he died suddenly in 1976, at the age of 47. He had achieved goals fellow jazz musicians only dream of, and his music continues to delight and inspire new generations.
Guaraldi’s Cast Your Fate to the Wind is one of the biggest selling jazz records to cross over to the pop charts, right up there with Take Five and Breezin’. It earned Guaraldi a Grammy Award, and has been recorded by dozens of musicians in instrumental and vocal versions. He followed that with even wider success as the composer-performer of the soundtrack music to the popular “Peanuts” cartoon television specials.
A native San Franciscan, Vince Guaraldi was born July 17, 1928, and died there from a heart attack on February 6, 1976. In between, he blazed a low-key but impressive career trail in which the accolades, awards, and financial success came to him strictly on the strength