When television producer Lee Mendelson heard jazz pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi's hit single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on his car radio, he thought he had found the right composer for the ...

In the early 1960s, budding filmmaker Lee Mendelson made a documentary about baseball player Willie Mays that aired on NBC. When he was looking for his next project, he turned to the newspaper. “I was ...

In 1964, one year before A Charlie Brown Christmas brought cartoonist Charles M. Schulz’s PEANUTS® to TV screens across America, the Vince Guaraldi Trio breathed life into its beloved characters ...

Many a jazz fan was first exposed to the music through pianist Vince Guaraldi's soundtracks for the long series of animated television specials featuring Charles Schulz's evergreen Peanuts characters.

It’s that time of year. Most holiday Muzak seems to do little more than contaminate the air, but Vince Guaraldi’s contribution remains comparatively fresh. The four best tracks from “A Charlie Brown ...

That’s even less likely now, as jazz recedes into the history books or the background of dinner parties, said Nathaniel Sloan, musicologist at the University of Southern California and co-host of the ...

Charlie Brown Christmas will celebrate its 50th anniversary tonight with a 7 p.m. special on ABC. (Contributed photo/ABC) It's been 50 years since Charlie Brown and Co. set out to discover the true ...

Launching Michael Berkowitz's final season, Playing for Peanuts: The Music of Vince Guaraldi represents the world premiere of brand new orchestrations of Guaraldi's genius, inspired by local legend ...