''Oaxaca'' is a compilation album by American jazz pianist
Vince Guaraldi
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (; birth name, né Dellaglio, July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the ''Peanuts'' comic strip. His compositions for this s ...
released by D & D Records (Guaraldi's briefly resurrected label) in 2004. The album is a mix of previously unreleased studio and live recordings taped in 1970 and 1971.
Background
In the mid-2000s, Vince Guaraldi's son, David Guaraldi, worked with audio archivist
Michael Graves at his Atlanta, Georgia-based Osiris Studio, in an effort to restore a wealth of unreleased recorded material from his father's archives.
[ The recordings on ''Oaxaca'' come from a variety of sources: some songs were performed live at In Your Ear, a jazz club based in ]Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (; Spanish language, Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree kno ...
; one is performed at The Matrix in San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
, with remaining tracks taped at Golden State Recorders Golden State Recorders was a San Francisco recording studio owned by Leo De Gar Kulka.
Some of the albums recorded at the studio were Brewer & Shipley's second album '' Weeds'' in 1969, sessions for The Beau Brummels originally recorded between 196 ...
in San Francisco.[
The release features covers of ]The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, rhythmically d ...
' "You Can't Always Get What You Want
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album ''Let It Bleed''. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' ...
" and The Beatles
The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatles, most influential band of al ...
' "Something
Something may refer to:
Philosophy and language
*Something (concept)
*Something, an English indefinite pronoun
Music
Albums
* ''Something'' (Chairlift album), 2012
* ''Something'' (Shirley Bassey album), 1970
* ''Something'' (Shirley Scott a ...
" and "You Never Give Me Your Money
"You Never Give Me Your Money" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney (and credited to Lennon–McCartney) and documented the financial and personal difficulties facing the band. The song is the first ...
", both from '' Abbey Road''.
''Oaxaca'' was released on CD only. It did not receive a vinyl release.[
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Critical reception
'' All About Jazz'' critic David Rickert commented that ''Oaxaca'' "could be called ''In A Silent Way, Charlie Brown''," adding that Guaraldi is "powered by a rhythm section well versed in providing a driving rock beat. Armed with an arsenal of electronic devices, they turn 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' into a ferocious squall, yet display a gentler touch on 'Something.' It's a testament to Guaraldi's abilities as a musician that all this works as well as it does, and his treatments of these relatively new songs show a skill at interpretation that was never quite apparent in his early days as a pianist dealing with standards." Rickert concluded by saying, "it should come as no surprise that Guaraldi is still capable of crafting amazingly catchy melodies, and the title track is one of his finest."[
Derrick Bang, Guaraldi historian and author of ''Vince Guaraldi at the Piano'', described the title track as "a catchy little tune full of sparkle and sass, which sounds like it could have been a ''Peanuts'' theme."][
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Track listing
Notes
recorded at Golden State Recorders, March 31, 1971
studio version released on ''''; featured in the ''Peanuts'' television special ''You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown
''You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown'' is the 14th prime-time animated television special based on the comic strip ''Peanuts'' by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on October 28, 1975. In this special, Charlie Brown, S ...
'' (1975)
from the film ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (french: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music and lyrics by Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young l ...
'' (1964)
Personnel
Credits adapted from CD liner notes.
;Vince Guaraldi Quartet:
*Vince Guaraldi – piano, Fender Rhodes
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...
, Hammond B-3, clavinet
*Vince Denham – saxophone, flute
*Koji Kataoka – electric bass
* Mike Clark – drums
;Additional:
* Derrick Bang – liner notes
* David Guaraldi – producer
* Michael Graves – engineer (audio restoration), producer
References
External links
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2004 compilation albums
2004 live albums
Albums arranged by Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi compilation albums
Cool jazz compilation albums
Mainstream jazz compilation albums
Peanuts music
Vince Guaraldi live albums
Live cool jazz albums
Live mainstream jazz albums