Vince Guaraldi - Oh, Good Grief!
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Artist: Vince GuaraldiEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Linus and Lucy
- You're In Love Charlie Brown
- Peppermint Patty
- Great Pumpkin Waltz
- It's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
- Oh, Good Grief
- Red Baron
- Rain, Rain, Go Away
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Free Music Review: Oh, Good Grief! is kind of a gentle signal or warning
Hit: 4 Stars
Oh, Good Grief! may have been chosen as a title to gentlely with humor signal that these are not the famous TV soundtrack of these well know pieces of music and how some people will respond to them.
Vince was a working jazz musician and The Peanuts soundtracks were just one aspect of his music output. Jazz artist are famous for revisiting and revising material as inspiration leads them. He, like The Grateful Dead who he occasionally sat in with, try to bring something new to each performance.
Others have already described the performanes better than I could.
You shouldn't try to pidgeon hole him to the style that he brought to the original soundtracks like people did to The Royal Guardsmen after their three Peasnut themed novelty hits starting with "Snoopy vs The Red Baron".
The grand irony to all this that CBS, when they received "A Charlie Brown Christmas", was extremely distressed that a jazz artist scored the soundtrack because they thought that many people would be put off a genre of music that they didn't considered mainstream enough and would turn it off. Now these pieces of music are regarded as standards that even the creator cannot re-interpret without criticism.
An article that appearred a couple of years ago in the Newark Star Ledger basically said that CBS only aired the show because they already paid for it and believed that no one would ever want to see it again. They, of course, re-evaluated the situation after it won an Emmy.
This, for me, is an interesting and refreshing album, with a few missteps, that is a welcomed change from the famous soundtrack recordings. That shouldn't mean that I don't still enjoy the soundtrack recordings as well.
If you are inflexible to hearing this music performed in a matter other than how they appear in the TV specials, avoid this disc, it holds nothing for you but disappointment.
Oh, Good Grief! Poster
Oh, Good Grief! isn't Vince Guaraldi's classic piano-trio recordings of his "Peanuts" favorites--for those, try the soundtrack to A Boy Named Charlie Brown. But it is a 1968 "re-imagining" of several of those favorites with Guaraldi on both piano and electric harpsichord, and Eddie Duran's electric guitar joining Carl Burnett's drums and Stanley Gilbert's bass. The sound is unfamiliar but the groove is unmistakably Guaraldi's, and it'll grow on you after your ear adjusts. For purists, the "Great Pumpkin Waltz" and "Rain, Rain Go Away" are a return to Guaraldi's trademark acoustic lyricism. It's only 28 minutes, unfortunately. --David HoriuchiJazz Music CDs
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