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Vince Guaraldi Trio
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The Vince Guaraldi Trio was a jazz group fronted by pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi. Most well-known in its acoustic piano-drums-bass configuration, the trio provided music for a number of animated productions of Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strips. Guaraldi's distinctively breezy, bluesy, and melancholy jazz has become an indelible part of Peanuts' timeless legacy. Their soundtrack for the 1965 Christmas special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, is one of the biggest-selling and most critically successful Christmas albums of all time. The San Francisco-based trio was first formed around 1954, then in a piano-guitar-bass configuration. Starting with the release of the group's self-titled debut album on Fantasy in 1956, Guaraldi would remain on the label for some time. Guaraldi's early recordings were decidedly low-key and morose compared to the work for which he would become famous, but his trademark melancholy and distinctive instrumental voicings, including his deep basslines, were indelible parts of his aesthetic framework from the very beginning. Influenced by the Brazilian film Black Orpheus (1959)--whose soundtrack was a large part of the impending Bossa nova craze--the trio recorded the album Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (1962), having by this point settled into their now familiar piano-bass-drums lineup. The album featured renditions of songs from the film, as well as a number of originals; one such song was "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" which would, within a
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![A Charlie Brown Christmas [2012 Remastered & Expanded Edition]](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/864eff2973cf26721a04df6507c1ab67.png)
A Charlie Brown Christmas [2012 Remastered & Expanded Edition]
Charlie Brown Holiday Hits
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Remastered & Expanded Edition)
![A Charlie Brown Christmas [Expanded]](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/ed45169d16bdb22efabf47211ea55a3d.png)
A Charlie Brown Christmas [Expanded]
Peanuts Greatest Hits (Music From the TV Specials)
Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
![Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus [Original Jazz Classics Remasters] (OJC Remaster)](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/a71d9e557c964437c4edac64e37e7f98.png)
Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus [Original Jazz Classics Remasters] (OJC Remaster)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Super Deluxe Edition)
Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits (Remastered)
Vince Guaraldi Trio