Vince Guaraldi Trio, A Charlie Brown Christmas
5November 22, 2011 by hhbrady
Don’t be fooled, potentially, by sentiment from the CBS television special, sponsored by Coke, and having aired on TV every year since December 9, 1965.
It’s a beautifully restrained, subtle jazz work overlying a comic medium frequently ignored for its existential subtleties. (The potentially-horrific meaninglessness of existence, and all that.)
For example, “Greensleeves,” an Elizabethan ballad possibly-referencing the love of prostitutes.
[...] but in this one, it's from a Charlie Brown Christmas, something I just posted about…! The production is overall much thicker, and the guitars are detuned a step from King's [...]
[...] “Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah,” very much like “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” the perfect stoner jazz tune, opens with and mostly relies on, a recurrent 3 chord (tenor sax D#, C#, B or concert C#, B, A) melody that seems to pick the 3 least likely chords for anyone, let alone a tenor, Leon Thomas warbling, sounding not unlike Wayne Brady as a religiously/jazzish-ly zealous preacher… an extended semi-holy party of 15:10, three chords and everyone just streeeeeeetched out over them… overall, the religious stoner version of Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown soundtrack…. [...]
[...] but in this one, it’s from a Charlie Brown Christmas, something I just posted about…! The production is overall much thicker, and the guitars are detuned a step from [...]
[...] but in this one, it’s from a Charlie Brown Christmas, something I just posted about…! The production is overall much thicker, and the guitars are detuned a step from [...]
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