Vince Guaraldi
Piano Solo on
Linus and Lucy

About

Vince Guaraldi's piano solo is the opening of 2 solos on this recording, before Vince Guaraldi's closing piano statement. Spanning one chorus of the 16-Bar form at a medium-up 165 BPM with a latin feel in E♭, the solo runs approximately 25 seconds. Guaraldi's piano solos are characteristically tuneful and rhythmically engaging, his blues-inflected lines dancing over the iconic ostinato bass figure. Vince Guaraldi was 35 to 36 years old at the time of this 1964 recording. Linus and Lucy is an original composition by pianist Vince Guaraldi, written in 1963 after television producer Lee Mendelson commissioned him to create music for a documentary about Charles M.

Vince Guaraldi was 35 to 36 years old at the time.