Item 1518 ● $18.95

Vince Guaraldi Trio ~ Live on the Air

This 2 Disc previously unreleased live set from 1974 is truly some of Vince's greatest work. With tunes we know and love and some rarely heard, choice covers, Vince and his band are at their best. Stunning sound quality and beautiful packaging featuring photos, news clippings and sheet music (all from the Guaraldi family archive), make this release something wholly special. Discovered on unmarked reel to reel tapes in Vince's office drawer, David Guaraldi has produced these recordings as a true labor of love and it shows with every track.

Item 1370 ● $28.95

Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials (Vol. 1 & 2 Box Set)

Previously unreleased gems from the legendary Vince Guaraldi — early 1970s work recorded for Charlie Brown cartoons.

Item 1305 ● $14.45

Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials (Vol. 1)

Previously unreleased gems from the legendary Vince Guaraldi — early 1970s work recorded for Charlie Brown cartoons. These sides are from the period when Peanuts was hipping things up a bit — and Vince's music definitely shows that trend — bringing in bits of funk, slight electric moments, and other sweet touches that take the music a long way from A Charlie Brown Christmas! Despite the fact that the title says "cues," the tunes here are all full-length jazz numbers!
[excerpted from © 1996-2008, Dusty Groove America, Inc.]

Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials (Vol. 2)

Amazing work from the legendary Vince Guaraldi — some of his funkiest tunes ever recorded, all issued here commercially for the first time ever! Most numbers here feature Vince on electric piano, working in trio format — all with a beautiful sound that's as crystal-clear, open, and laidback as some of the best keyboard work on CTI at the time. The main difference here, though, is that many of these tunes are quite short — just a couple of minutes, as the music was used as cues in the cartoons — often cut down even more to accompany a short scene.
[excerpted from © 1996-2008, Dusty Groove America, Inc.]

Joe Cool's Blues
by Wynton Marsalis

Personnel-wise this is a Marsalis family affair; and how delightful it must be for both Wynton and Branford to engage the talents of so adept a family member as their father (and fellow Columbia recording artist), pianist Ellis Marsalis. The music is delivered with loads of humor, but lest one get the impression of total frivolity, these songs stand up solidly as jazz vehicles.
© Willard Jenkins

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

For our next project, it occurred to me that since we had just profiled the world’s greatest baseball player, why not profile the world’s worst baseball player — Charlie Brown — and his creator, Charles Schulz.

Excerpt from Introductory Essay by Producer Lee Mendelson
"Willie Mays and Charlie Brown"

Filmed at the Schulz Museum, nationally acclaimed cartoonist and storyteller Joe Wos presents a unique and entertaining approach to cartooning. Through a step-by-step process using imagination exercises, stories, and drawing instructions, Joe teaches students not just how to draw cartoons but how to create them! How to Toon also boosts creative writing skills by teaching elements of good story development. With a bonus live performance by Joe of "Once Upon a Toon" and "Don on the Farm."

running time approx. 60 minutes