I’m interested in moving past his “Peanuts” work. I have the Xmas album that everyone has, Oh Good Grief and A Boy named Charlie Brown .
Outside of those, any recomendations? Thanks.
We have a George Winston album that’s a compilation of VL Greatest Hits. At least half of the stuff is Peanuts material, and the other half never struck me as particularly distinctive from the more familiar pieces, but it might be a good place to start.
Nitpick: VG. VL was a football coach.
LOL! Charlie Brown could’ve learned a lesson or two from him, though. :smack:
I’d like to see Lucy jerk the football away from Vince Lombardi. 
I’ll be watching this thread with interest. I listed to some of the perviews of Vince Guaraldi stuff on iTunes, but it was hard to judge from that what I’d like.
Before striking gold with the Charlie Brown soundtracks, Guaraldi was chiefly known as one of the earliest popularizers of bossa nova, and his earlier work has a very strong, and very good, latin flavor. His greatest hits album (which is also on iTunes) is a good roundup of his other work; there are only 3 Charlie Brown tracks on it, so you wouldn’t be re-buying much, and you can hear definite echos of what was to come. (The descending riff of “Ginza,” for example, was recycled for the Peanuts song “Skating.”) It also has his well-known hit single, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind.” I recommend it; I especially like his take on the Beatles’ “I’m a Loser.”
While I don’t own it myself, “Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus” seems to be the most highly regarded of his original albums.