Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Original Sound Track Recording Of The CBS Television Special
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Free Music Review: A Christmas Classic (just add eggnog, champagne, and a warm fireplace).
Hit: 5 Stars
There are two only two truly perfect Christmas albums: A Charlie Brown Christmas, and the Johnny Mathis Merry Christmas album (1958). A Charlie Brown Christmas was released in 1965 as the soundtrack album to the CBS Christmas television special. It is no surprise that it is among the most popular holiday music albums of all time. All of the songs on this CD are legitimately great jazz songs regardless of the time of year, but easily recreate the sense of childhood excitement and mystery of the holidays. To create a perfectly mellow holiday ambiance, just add eggnog, champagne, and a warm fireplace to the following setlist:
1. O Tannenbaum
2. What Child Is This
3. My Little Drum
4. Linus And Lucy
5. Christmas Time Is Here
6. Christmas Time Is Here
7. Skating
8. Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
9. Christmas Is Coming
10. Für Elise
11. The Christmas Song
12. Greensleeves
G. Merritt
Free Music Review: Hauntingly great!
Hit: 5 Stars
Something about the jazz of Vince Guraldi, combined with the nostalgia of the Peanuts gang, allows this album to be a time machine for me, taking me back to when Christmas was a spectacle of awe and mystery. It seems strange that music can be so evocative and so indescribable at the same time. All that I can say is that it helps me recapture the wonder that I used to have at Christmas.The specifics:
"O Tannenbaum" and the vocal rendition of "Christmastime is Here" are excellent and just as I remember them. "Fur Elise" is also nice, and "Greensleeves" was a perfect way to end the album. I just wish there were some way to work in Schroeder's rendition of "Jingle Bells" (his staccatto single notes become funnier everytime I hear them).
On the downside, the vocal rendition of "Christmastime is Here" has an abrupt cutoff at the end, which has been noted by other reviewers. Also, the "Linus and Lucy" on this album ends more 'jazzy' than I prefer, but that's just me.
Buy this album and enjoy it!
Free Music Review: This music makes me feel like a kid again!
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD "A Charlie Brown Christmas" takes me back to the 1960's, when I was a child. My two absolute favorite X-mas TV shows were "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Because my sisters were teen-agers and adults when I was growing up, my Mom,Dad and I were the only ones to snuggle up to the TV and catch these wonderful classics. Of course my main enjoyment as a child was the animation. As I grew older, the jazzy sound of the Vince Guaraldi Trio on the " A Charlie Brown Christmas " Soundtrack intrigued me. I thought, "for a childrens movie, this has some great jazz music." It's just sad that commercialism has taken over the holiday shows and classics like Rudolph and Charlie Brown are shown right after Thanksgiving it seems to just get them out of the way. I highly recommend this CD and suggest to parents of children that when the great Christmas classics like Frosty, Charlie Brown and Rudolph come on during the holidays, snuggle with them and enjoy them like I did.Free Music Review: Peanuts Christmas Jazz Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
I really don't think any Christmas music collection could be complete without this soundtrack. When I think back of my childhood and watching the Charlie Brown Christmas Special on CBS during the holidays, I can't help but remember the warm feeling that Vince Guaraldi's arrangements instilled in me while watching the special. Looking back now, I also think that this soundtrack music was my first memorable exposure to jazz and probably set the stage for my musical appeal to instrumental jazz. "Christmas Time is Here" has become a Holiday jazz standard and has been re-recorded by a number of jazz vocalists but my personal favorite is "Skating". This is the Tao of Christmas. You can't help but lose yourself in the meditative freedom expressed in this arrangement, like the Peanuts characters in the movie, gliding so freely, smoothly and gracefully on the frozen pond in the pristine greyness of winter. If you grew up watching the Peanuts during Christmas, this CD takes you back to that place in your childhood Christmas heart.
Free Music Review: The memories of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Hit: 5 Stars
I was born in December of 1975, long after the original "A Charlie Brown Christmas" came out, but I enjoy this wonderful piece of work year after year non the less. I remember waiting eagerly year after year for A Charlie Brown Christmas and the rest of the wondeful Peanuts holiday peices to show on TV. These animated classics were some of the hilights of the holiday season for me. Listening to this CD brought back memories of my wonderful "not to long ago" childhood. When track's 5 and 6 started playing, these memories came flooding back and I could feel a lump in my throat starting to form and tears welling in my eyes. And for a few minutes, I swore I was that carefree child again, sitting on the sofa with my legs dangeling over the edge, with my younger brothers and my mom, eating popcorn. I now have a child of my own and I want to have these wondeful experiences too.
Back to the CD, it's awesome piece of work and I really enjoy it. It has even sparked my interest in Jazz. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Happy Holiday's!!