Essential Standards

Essential Standards
Essential Standards
Compilation album by Vince Guaraldi
Released	June 30, 2009
Recorded	1956 – 1965
Genre	Jazz; Latin jazz; Bossa nova; Soundtrack; West Coast jazz; Christmas music;
Length	51:42
Label	Fantasy; Concord; Original Jazz Classics;
Vince Guaraldi chronology

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Five Cents Please	^[2]

Essential Standards is the third compilation album of songs by American jazz pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi released on June 30, 2009, in the U.S by Concord as part of their Original Jazz Classics series.^[3]

Background[]

Acting as a companion piece to Fantasy Records' 1980 Greatest Hits,^[4] Essential Standards includes additional songs from Guaraldi's Fantasy Records catalogue outside of his soundtrack recordings for Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts television specials.^[2]

Track listing[]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise"	Oscar Hammerstein II Sigmund Romberg	A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (1958)	3:28
2.	"The Girl from Ipanema"	Antônio Carlos Jobim Vinicius de Moraes	From All Sides (1965)	5:19
3.	"Moon River"	Henry Mancini	Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (1964)	5:16
4.	"Cast Your Fate to the Wind"	Vince Guaraldi	Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus	3:05
5.	"Willow Weep for Me"	Ann Ronell	A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing	5:14
6.	"Fascinating Rhythm"	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	Vince Guaraldi Trio (1956)	2:45
7.	"Since I Fell for You"	Buddy Johnson	Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus	4:20
8.	"Days of Wine and Roses"	Henry Mancini	Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends (1964)	5:20
9.	"On Green Dolphin Street" (live)	Bronisław Kaper Ned Washington	In Person (1963)	5:53
10.	"Autumn Leaves"	Joseph Kosma	A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing	4:22
11.	"Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)"	Antônio Carlos Jobim	The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi (1964)	3:20
12.	""What Child Is This"" (mistitled "Greensleeves")	William Chatterton Dix	A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)	3:20
Total length:				51:42

References[]

^ Campbell, Al. Essential Standards at AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Bang, Derrick. "Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD: Essential Standards". fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
^ Kernfeld, Barry, ed. (2002). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 3 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 201. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
^ Ginell, Richard S.. Greatest Hits at AllMusic. Retrieved February 4, 2020.

External links[]

Essential Standards at Discogs

[1] Campbell, Al. Essential Standards at AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

[Bang-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Bang, Derrick. "Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD: Essential Standards". fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved June 8, 2020.

[New_Grove-3] Kernfeld, Barry, ed. (2002). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 3 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 201. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.

[4] Ginell, Richard S.. Greatest Hits at AllMusic. Retrieved February 4, 2020.

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