All about Vince Guaraldi

Elsewhere, Peanuts animation expert Scott McGuire points out that Derrick Bang (who you may know as the editor of the It’s Only a Game and Li’l Folks collections, the author of 50 Years of Happiness and the co-author of Security Blankets) has put out Vince Guaraldi at the Piano, a look at the jazz great who composed the music for all of the early Peanuts specials.

I haven’t laid my fingers on a copy of it yet, but if it sounds like a book you’d like to have, you’re probably right.

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