Christmas Time Is Here

Vince Guaraldi Trio · 1965 · A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965

Context

“Christmas Time Is Here” is one of the new pieces Vince Guaraldi wrote for the TV special Peanuts A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965). The sessions took place from September to October 1965, mostly at Fantasy Studios in San Francisco, and the album was released on Fantasy in December.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Cool (Birth of the Cool), Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.

By the same artist

• Skating (1965)
• Linus and Lucy (1964)
• The Great Pumpkin Waltz (1966)
• Cast Your Fate to the Wind (1962)

Sources

• EN: A Charlie Brown Christmas (soundtrack)
• EN: Vince Guaraldi

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