Reviews
Oct 06, 2021
By Austin Saalman
Much less a Christmas record than it is a crucial staple of West Coast jazz culture, Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack possessed a dual cultural significance. Not only did it help to further popularize Charles M. Schulz’s beloved Peanuts comic strip and its corresponding CBS holiday special, but it also played an integral part in reintroducing jazz music to the 1960s mainstream. More
Oct 04, 2021
By Austin Saalman
In his time, San Francisco-born pianist Vince Guaraldi, along with an elite circle of esteemed contemporaries, helped to further, and then ensure, the legacy of post-war Bay Area jazz. More