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 ...

The 2018 release of this 1966 animated television special soundtrack made the music available for the first time. Pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi led a sextet (rather than his usual trio), resulting ...

Craft Recordings announces two vinyl reissues to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz's beloved PEANUTS comic strip, which debuted in seven newspapers across the country on October 2, ...

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 ...

As fans of the original Charlie Brown animated films might have noticed, the newest adaptation of the beloved comic strip, The Peanuts Movie, employs a very different kind of animation technique. Gone ...

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 ...

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 ...