Great comments --love to read others who savvy VG --especially the note on "triste" --what a fine word for that hard-to-describe emotional tone in the music.
Guaraldi and Stan Getz took jazz to a new level by fusing it with samba, bossa nova, rhumba, and carnival rhythms from South America. There is a liveliness and, at the same time, a note of sadness (triste) that jazz never had before. No one has done this better than Guaraldi! He made jazz popular and that brought people into the genre that would noever have considered it before. Guaraldi is one of the all-time greats!
It's sad that he's not listed as one of the greats. Through his work on the peanuts specials, he has probably gotten more people interested in jazz than any other artist ever. When I was younger I had heard of guys like Miles Davis & Charlie Parker, but my first jazz album was the Charlie Brown christmas album. Without that album I would never have even given jazz a chance.
Great comments --love to read others who savvy VG --especially the note on "triste" --what a fine word for that hard-to-describe emotional tone in the music.
buddylarsen 5 months ago
Guaraldi and Stan Getz took jazz to a new level by fusing it with samba, bossa nova, rhumba, and carnival rhythms from South America. There is a liveliness and, at the same time, a note of sadness (triste) that jazz never had before. No one has done this better than Guaraldi! He made jazz popular and that brought people into the genre that would noever have considered it before. Guaraldi is one of the all-time greats!
geniekri 10 months ago
It's sad that he's not listed as one of the greats. Through his work on the peanuts specials, he has probably gotten more people interested in jazz than any other artist ever. When I was younger I had heard of guys like Miles Davis & Charlie Parker, but my first jazz album was the Charlie Brown christmas album. Without that album I would never have even given jazz a chance.
jameshilliv 10 months ago 7
@jameshilliv Preaching to the choir. Your comment reminds me to put up the rest of the album, which I'll get to in... uh, soon.
softballhumanoid 10 months ago
instant bossa nova/ jazz classic. Welcome it whole-heartedly to your heavy rotation
Spookimitsu 11 months ago
wow
just wow
amazing!
hugonubario 11 months ago 3