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This is a session/interview with Vince Guaraldi and his band with guest musician Bola Sete from Brazil. Bossa Nova style was big at the time and Vince hopped onboard. Of course, Vince and his band went on to make the music for the Charlie Brown cartoons and introduced a generation of kids to jazz.

`Linus and Lucy’ and other music he created for the Charlie Brown TV Specials reverberate forever in the American heart It’s great music to hear anytime, but especially this time of year. It’s the late jazz composer Vince Guaraldi’s joyful music for the Charlie Brown TV specials. His song, “Linus and Lucy” has become the main theme of all the Charlie Brown specials, though it was first used in the Charlie Brown Christmas special. Nobody had ever used a soundtrack of hip piano jazz for an animated feature before this. Composers such as the great Carl Stalling did compose tremendously...