Thursday, December 31, 2020

Chart success ... after 55 years!

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Well, here's something worth singing about. For the first time ever, Guaraldi's soundtrack album for A Charlie Brown Christmas has ...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

A Jolly Guaraldi Holiday 2020

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It's time once again for this annual round-up of Guaraldi-themed concerts taking place between now and the end of the year, most of whic...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Vinyl madness

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As has become tradition for several years now, Guaraldi's score for A Charlie Brown Christmas will get plenty of vinyl action in the nex...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Big man on campus

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Back on February 1, I was contacted by Alec Huntley, a graduate student at the University of North Texas (UNT), who was working toward his d...
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Saturday, October 24, 2020

Fools' gold?

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Perform a Google search on the terms “Vince Guaraldi” and “gold record,” and the first result is a segment of the musician’s allmusic.com bi...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Dr. Funk and the high school entrepreneur

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Daniel “Danny” Scher spent the final 24 years of the 20th century working alongside famed San Francisco Bay Area music impresario Bill Graha...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

A blast of Granelli

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Like many traditionally large-scale public events this summer, the annual Halifax Jazz Festival has gone "virtual and vibrant,"...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

The Trident: Then and now

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Technology marches on, and I’m delighted by the increasing number of newspapers that have migrated their archives into public Internet sear...
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Friday, July 17, 2020

Many happy returns!

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Guaraldi would have turned 92 today, and I'd like to think — in some alternate universe — that Dr. Funk is celebrating this milestone ...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

A summer with Vince

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Vinyl fans are in for a treat; Craft recently announced new editions of two Guaraldi Peanuts-themed compilation albums. I'm particul...