A Charlie Brown Christmas is the eighth studio album by the American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi. Released by Fantasy Records in December 1965, the album coincided with the debut of the television spe
Original 1965 release
Fantasy 1988/2012 CD release cover art
Guaraldi (left), Fred Marshall (center), and Jerry Granelli (right) performing as the Vince Guaraldi Trio in 1963. Marshall and Granelli later performed on music recorded for A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The iconic dance sequence in A Charlie Brown Christmas. "Linus and Lucy" gained its greatest exposure through the special and became closely identified with the scene.
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Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. For this album, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Juli
A Charlie Brown Christmas (soundtrack)
…the album quintuple platinum, representing five million units. It was the second jazz album to receive a 5× platinum certification, after Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (1959). In August 2026, the RIAA certified the album sextuple platinum, representing 6 million units in the United States. The certification made it…
Miles Davis Kind of Blue album cover
Miles Davis in 1956
Bill Evans in 1961
1986 Columbia Jazz Masterpieces compact disc reissue cover