The 1966 animated television special It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown has become a perennial Halloween standard. Starring the Peanuts gang created by Charles M. Schulz, it is not, however, a horror classic. “It’s not even on the scale,” says film analyst and Peanuts historian Derrick Bang. “It’s too sweet and gentle. The only thing mildly spooky is the title credit sequence.” What the special lacked in fear it made up for in wonder. Much of that magic came from the music.
While Lucy, Linus, and even Snoopy come home with sacks of candy, Charlie Brown’s trick or treat bag is filled with rocks. That’s not how Halloween is supposed to roll. Lee Mendelson, co-creator of the Peanuts animated specials, brought in someone who could make it swing.
San Francisco Bay area jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi had been part of the Peanuts’ creative gang for two...
While Lucy, Linus, and even Snoopy come home with sacks of candy, Charlie Brown’s trick or treat bag is filled with rocks. That’s not how Halloween is supposed to roll. Lee Mendelson, co-creator of the Peanuts animated specials, brought in someone who could make it swing.
San Francisco Bay area jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi had been part of the Peanuts’ creative gang for two...
- 10/27/2022
- by Mike Cecchini
- Den of Geek
Interscope Records and The Weinstein Company have announced the release of Big Eyes – Music From The Original Motion Picture available at all digital partners now.
Multi-platinum recording artist Lana Del Rey performs the title track “Big Eyes,” which she co-wrote with Daniel Heath and is nominated for a 2015 Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture.
Check out the song Here. Lana also performs “I Can Fly,” which she co-wrote with Rick Nowels for acclaimed director Tim Burton’s latest motion picture.
Said Del Rey: “I’m so grateful to Tim for letting me into his wild world and to Harvey for encouraging me to continue to write for films. I’m honored that the Hollywood foreign press has nominated my song.”
Big Eyes opens in theaters December 25, 2014. Read Tom Stockman’s review Here.
From the whimsical mind of director Burton, Big Eyes tells the outrageous true story...
Multi-platinum recording artist Lana Del Rey performs the title track “Big Eyes,” which she co-wrote with Daniel Heath and is nominated for a 2015 Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture.
Check out the song Here. Lana also performs “I Can Fly,” which she co-wrote with Rick Nowels for acclaimed director Tim Burton’s latest motion picture.
Said Del Rey: “I’m so grateful to Tim for letting me into his wild world and to Harvey for encouraging me to continue to write for films. I’m honored that the Hollywood foreign press has nominated my song.”
Big Eyes opens in theaters December 25, 2014. Read Tom Stockman’s review Here.
From the whimsical mind of director Burton, Big Eyes tells the outrageous true story...
- 12/24/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hartford, Conn. (AP) — Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91.
Brubeck died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Brubeck would have turned 92 on Thursday.
Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine – on Nov. 8, 1954 – and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and `60s club jazz.
The seminal album "Time Out," released by the quartet in 1959, was the first ever million-selling jazz LP, and is still among the best-selling jazz albums of all time. It opens with "Blue...
Brubeck died Wednesday morning at Norwalk Hospital of heart failure after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son Darius, said his manager Russell Gloyd. Brubeck would have turned 92 on Thursday.
Brubeck had a career that spanned almost all American jazz since World War II. He formed The Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1951 and was the first modern jazz musician to be pictured on the cover of Time magazine – on Nov. 8, 1954 – and he helped define the swinging, smoky rhythms of 1950s and `60s club jazz.
The seminal album "Time Out," released by the quartet in 1959, was the first ever million-selling jazz LP, and is still among the best-selling jazz albums of all time. It opens with "Blue...
- 12/5/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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