Saturday, April 24, 2021

Take us back to the ball game!

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Grab your wallets; Craft Recordings is about to spend a lot of your money again. The label recently announced a vinyl reissue of the classic...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Orpheus Rising

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My friend Scott recently posed an intriguing question:   Was Guaraldi the first jazz artist to cover the music from Black Orpheus in an alb...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Plenty of respect!

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Following up on my January 24 post , I issued an open request for help in creating a list of jazz artists who've recorded a) original tr...
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Friday, March 26, 2021

More information!

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San Francisco Chronicle music critic Ralph Gleason and Guaraldi stroll outside Basin Street West in early 1965, during the filming of an ep...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Dean Reilly: Gentleman bassist

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Damn, we just lost another one: the final member of Guaraldi's original trio. Dean left us a week ago Tuesday, March 9, at the youthful ...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

Ralph Gleason: Prophet

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I've been in the research tank for the past month, thanks to the San Francisco Chronicle finally being available as a searchable online...
Monday, February 15, 2021

What's in a word? (Or two?) (Or three?)

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You’d think, after slightly more than three decades, that somebody would have noticed and discussed this by now.   But no; it appears to be ...
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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Valentine's Day treat

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Celebrated solo pianist George Winston, a longtime Guaraldi fan, will devote this weekend's live-streamed concert to compositions from D...
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Sunday, January 24, 2021

The respect of one's peers

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My good friend Scott recently called my attention to the fact that jazz vibraphonist Tony Miceli's 2014 album with violinist Diane Monro...
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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 ...