A couple of years ago I think it was in 2022, there was a new released version of the Charlie Brown Christmas album with a ton of studio outtakes included. I believe it’s called the super deluxe version or something to that effect.

For a music lover and nerd like myself, this offers a lot of very interesting different versions of the Christmas classics we’re accustomed to. I love hearing the outtakes and are some humor and all kinds of fun stuff on a lot of the other tracks too. It’s one of my favorite Christmas albums, and it has been ever since my young years. 

You truly get an idea of how good the musicianship is on this album is, and how good and talented all the musicians are, especially Vince Guaraldi. 

You can even hear the studio engineer giving instructions as they do this take and I think this version should’ve been released on the original album. I think it’s the coolest jazziest version of Greensleeves I have ever heard.

It’s very, very syncopated like jazz should be and just very unexpected and beautiful. Vince’s chops on the piano are absolutely insane. As he emotes such feeling into many of the sections.

Check it out I think it’ll really do something to you like it does to me and as is always thank you for reading and listening. 

-aaa