Vince Guaraldi: It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

No, there are not any speeches about Jesus’ resurrection on Charles Schultz’s 1974 Animated Special It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown. But, while Vince Guaraldi’s music is a tad dated with the sound of the electric piano and ARP String Ensemble, the ideas are flying around like The Red Baron. Joined to Guaraldi are Seward McCain/b, Robert Clare/fl and Glenn Cronkhite-Eliot Zigmund/dr for songs that ranged from modernized takes of “Piano Sonata No 3 in C Major” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No7  In A Major” to a renaissance-ish woodwinds for “Easter Theme” and floating flutes on “Salting Eggs”. The keyboards are relaxed on a soulful “Woodstock’s Pad” and hip for “Linus and  Lucy” with the team getting funky for “Snoopy’s Gumballs/Sally and Linus”. Joe Cool at Easter.

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