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Features Disc of the day
Vince Guaraldi Trio
A Charlie Brown Christmas
(Fantasy, 1965)
Have yourself a melancholy little Christmas...
When CBS bosses first watched A Charlie Brown Christmas in November 1965, they hated it. It was too slow, had no laugh track, saw Linus reading from the Gospel of Luke and featured a deeply doleful score from a West Coast jazz trio. Of course, forty years on, Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to the round-headed kid’s quest for Yuletide meaning has become the wistful, humble underscore to two weeks of rank Western consumerism. Everyone remembers Linus And Lucy, the plaintive boogie woogie groove that the Peanuts kids dance to in the snow but the rest of Guaraldi’s suite piano trio is sadder still – a white winter landscape of hushed drums, muffled bass and twinkling piano notes that speaks to the forlorn, questing Charlie Brown in all of us, frozen in a moment of quiet contemplation about the year ended and the year ahead, the ways deep and the weather sharp. Rich with the wisdom of humility, A Charlie Brown Christmas actually sounds like a child’s Christmas morning, a pensive innocence adrift in a spirit of wonder.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 22/12/2007
Further Listening
Boris Karloff – How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Mercury)
Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard (OJC)
The Langley Schools Music Project – Innocence And Despair (Bar/None)
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