Many happy returns!

Guaraldi would have turned 92 today, and I'd like to think — in some alternate universe — that Dr. Funk is celebrating this milestone in the best possible way: with a club gig playing to a sell-out, standing-room-only crowd (masked and social-distanced, of course).

Meanwhile, and in anticipation of this birthday, I recently spent a delightful half-hour chatting with Dennis Green, of KCCK Jazz 88.3 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The resulting "Guaraldi special" airs today, and you can listen to it here.

Dennis and I discovered our mutual fondness for Guaraldi in early May, when we had a similar radio chat concerning my two newest books, Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950-1970 and Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1971-Present. 

(What's that, you say? Not yet familiar with what took over the past four years of my life? Well, hie thee hence to the books' companion blog!)

(And, rest assured, I found a couple of reasons to mention Guaraldi in those books, as well!)

Happy birthday, Vince. I genuinely believe you get more popular every year!