Greatest Hits

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Total Tracks: 14   Total Length: 57:28

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Charlie Brown Christmas: The Story Behind the Classic

By Michael Azerrad, eMusic Contributor

When you're a kid, you don't have much of a frame of reference - whatever happens, you just think, well, this must be the way the world is. So I didn't give too much thought to the fact that jazz as exquisitely tasteful as Vince Guaraldi's adorned the great Peanuts specials of the '60s. Maybe it's because Guaraldi's contemplative, even autumnal tunes tapped straight into Charlie Brown's downbeat mien. That might seem odd in music… more »

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Baseball Music

By Dan Epstein, eMusic Contributor

Baseball and music are the twin obsessions of my life, but beyond drunken 7th inning renditions of "Take Me out to the Ballgame," I've always been fairly dubious about the wisdom of combining the two. Having grown up in an era where the only music heard at the ballpark came from a ghostly-sounding organ perched behind the press box, I find something extraordinarily distasteful about players running out onto the field to tune of '80s… more »

They Say All Music Guide

First released on LP in 1980, this compilation concentrates upon bite-sized samples from Vince Guaraldi’s Fantasy catalog. Naturally, Fantasy includes famous tunes like “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” and “Linus and Lucy,” but there are also some superb sleepers (“Star Song,” Jobim’s “Outra Vez”) that display Guaraldi’s wonderful melodic gift, and the sessions with Bola Sete are touched upon. As a chronicle of Guaraldi’s Fantasy days, the set is somewhat incomplete, for it leaves out all material recorded prior to “Cast Your Fate” and Guaraldi isn’t given much of a chance to stretch out. But this is definitely the place to start for someone who has not heard this whimsically inventive pianist. – Richard S. Ginell

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