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a r t i s t : Vince Guaraldi
t i t l e : The Charlie Brown Suite
d a t e : 2003
l a b e l : Bluebird
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Oct 2003
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 72,3 MB
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While many consider Vince Guaraldi's musical contributions to
the Charlie Brown television cartoons to be jazz "lite," there
are many more who could care less what they think, and there
are still more who realize that the late Mr. Guaraldi was a
first-rate composer who understood no bounds when it came to
creative music. His recordings for Black Orpheus and his
sessions with Cal Tjader and Bola Sete reveal a restless
musical mind that was far more interested in the nuance of jazz
possibility than street credibility. This Bluebird set,
comprising the entire 40-minute, seven-section "Charlie Brown
Suite," was recorded live at Mr. D's, a famous jazz club in San
Francisco, in 1968. This performance has been unearthed from
more than 80 hours of unreleased Guaraldi material in an estate
looked after by his son, who, along with producer Dawn
Atkinson, assembled the tapes for remastering and release for
the first time ever. Accompanying Mr. Guaraldi are his own trio
and the Amici Della Music Ensemble under the direction of
Richard Williams. While audience and bandstand noise is
present, so is musical whimsy bordering on genius. The
seemingly simple harmonics and snappy melodies that comprised
the Charlie Brown pieces are merely the springboard for
dizzying, dreamy, and rhythmically advanced, sophisticated
composition and arrangement. These seven pieces are, in their
way, one of the great treasures in American music and haunted
by childlike nursery rhymes while being saturated in jazz; they
comprise something unique in the vernacular and are a sheer,
warm delight for virtually anyone but the most snobbish and
harmonically challenged to listen to. Fans of vanguard jazz and
"new" music only need not apply, this is over your head (after
all, it has heart and emotion). In addition to the suite, there
are three other unique pieces: the original mixes of "Linus &
Lucy With Band" and "The Charlie Brown Theme" recorded at Wally
Heider's - the latter complete with harpsichord solo - and a
unique, live, longer version of Guaraldi's hit "Cast Our Fate
to the Wind." What all this adds up to is an amazing package
that has come from out of the blue to enrich the catalog of one
of the great unsung compositional masters in American music.
-Thom Jurek
thanks to our rabid buddies...
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01-Linus And Lucy With The Band [04:13]
02-The Charlie Brown Theme [02:38]
03-Intro With Linus And Lucy [08:13]
04-Happiness Is [05:49]
05-Peppermint Patty [05:52]
06-Charlie Brown Theme [05:37]
07-Rain, Rain Go Away [04:58]
08-Red Baron [05:57]
09-Closing [02:36]
10-Cast Your Fate To The Wind [06:42]
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52:35 min
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