Vince Guaraldi

From a story about the making of the music behind a Charlie Brown Christmas:

In 1962, Guaraldi and his trio–which then included Bailey and Budwig, who was about to quit the band and move to Los Angeles–recorded their own album titled Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, which spawned the Grammy-winning jazz-pop hit “Cast Your Fate to the Wind.” The tune is recognizably Guaraldi’s–the sound of a self-proclaimed “reformed boogie-woogie” pianist fusing his cool-jazz leanings with his Afro-Cuban fetishes.

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