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Vince Guaraldi

An innovative and highly original jazz pianist, composer and arranger, Vince Guaraldi and his trio earned a kind of immortality by creating the music for the animated version of the Peanuts strip cartoon, including the films A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, You're Not Elected Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown & Charles Schulz and It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Raised in the Bay area of San Francisco, Guaraldi (the name of his stepfather) was inspired to play piano by the boogie woogie and jazz players Jimmy Yancy, Albert Ammons and Peter Johnson after serv...