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A Charlie Brown Christmas is the eighth studio album by the American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (later credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio). It was released in December 1965 by Fantasy Records to coincide with the television debut of the television special A Charlie Brown Christmas featuring the Peanuts comic characters.
The Christmas Album (The Manhattan Transfer album) Christmas Blues; Christmas Caravan; Christmas Carousel; Christmas Fantasy; Christmas Jazz Jam; Christmas Present (Boney James album) Christmas Song Book (Helen Merrill album) Christmas Songs (Diana Krall album) Christmas Songs (Mel Tormé album) Christmas Songs with The Ray Brown Trio
The vocals for the song were provided by the children's choir at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael, California. Guaraldi had previously performed with the ensemble at his May 1965 "jazz mass" performance at Grace Cathedral which was released album At Grace Cathedral. [3] The song has since become a perennial Christmas classic.
The late jazz great's vocals are clear as a bell (as always), making this "glorious song of old" sound brand new with each listen. 156. Rob Thomas, "Small Town Christmas"
"Linus and Lucy" is a popular instrumental jazz standard written by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi. It serves as the main theme tune for the many Peanuts animated specials and is named for the two fictional siblings, Linus and Lucy Van Pelt.
Guaraldi left the group early in 1959 to pursue his own projects full-time. He might have remained a well-respected but minor jazz figure had Guaraldi not written an original number to fill out his covers of Antonio Carlos Jobim/Luiz Bonfá tunes on his 1962 album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, inspired by the French/Brazilian film Black Orpheus.