Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Jerry Granelli, drumming legend

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Jerry Granelli, Fred Marshall and Vince Guaraldi caught on camera, for Ralph Gleason's film Anatomy of a Hit, during their lengthy run ...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Archival gold

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Hang onto your hats; this one is  huge . The first tantalizing seed was planted at some point in 2009, during the research phase of my Guara...
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Thursday, June 24, 2021

FYI: Behind-the-scenes change

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Greeting, loyal readers!   If you receive updates from Impressions of Vince by email, this is a heads-up to let you know that the blog is c...
Friday, June 18, 2021

More bits and bobs

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My ongoing dive into newspapers.com continues to reveal all sorts of informational nuggets. Most wind up in my Guaraldi Timeline , which is...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Memo from Mena

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Social media has become a home for all manner of celebrity-focused “publications” that entertain visitors with short (and often shallow) int...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Playboy visits San Franciso ... back in the day

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This post has very little to do with Guaraldi himself, but it does concern his San Francisco environment, and specifically many of the jazz ...
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Friday, May 28, 2021

A memorable piano lesson

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As the years have passed, and this blog’s status has risen via Google searches, I’ve occasionally heard from first-time visitors eager to sh...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

An appeal for Jerry Granelli

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“Jazz isn’t a style; it’s a way of life.” The speaker is Jerry Granelli, evoking singer/activist Nina Simone, who famously said, “Jazz is no...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Exploring BMI (and no, I don't mean body mass index)

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I recently took another deep dive into Guaraldi’s entries in the Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) Repertoire database; far too much time has elap...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Calling Dr. Funk

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By the late 1950s, Vince Guaraldi was known by two nicknames: The Italian Leprechaun, and Dr. Funk. Indeed, "Calling Dr. Funk" is ...
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