Vince Guaraldi

That would be the Tom Roed Advanced Piano Solo version of the piece published by Warner Bros. Publications (or is it Felfar Music, perhaps a wholly owned subsidiary thereof?). Patti Music Company http://www.pattimusic.com has it for $3.95, cat. no. 2942LP1X.

Or try your local music store. I found my copy at a music store in a small burb of St. Louis while visiting in-laws.

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I checked it out. found a preview of it on musicnotes.com (a very cool idea.. see the first page of the music before you buy) Anyways.. it's exactly the same thing i have been playing all along. BUt then again it didn't get to the break part yet. Since i'm playing the first part correctly, 1 note bass line on the left hand, and the 2 note harmony on the right, what i want to know. I this advanced version does the break go into full chords like they notate in this moths keyboard? (has anyone seen this issue and know what i'm talking

I stopped by a bookstore on the way home today and looked at the Benoit column in Keyboard Magazine. The Tom Roed arrangement is *not* what you're looking for. It does have some larger ( 4 note) chords past page 1, but all the notes in these are from the triads. It does have an occasional 7th chord and non-triads such as Ab/Db and an Eb7sus4. However these are not the fat 'jazz' chords like the arrangement in the magazine. For example, the notes making Eb7sus4 are not all struck at once but are seen as a figure of broken partial chords (2 notes vertically) in the right hand over a pair of sustained octave Eb notes in the bass. This contrasts with the accompaniment in the magazine where the two hands combine to play, for example in the key of C, G octaves in the left hand and a 1st inversion C triad plus flatted 7th plus 9th in the right. Actually, there may have been a 6th in the right hand as well - I'm working from memory here.

Why not just add the jazz chords yourself? Phineas, IB and others on this list love this stuff. I'm sure they'd be glad to offer suggestions.

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Actually i'm working my way through the jazz piano book. So i will be able to do that myself soon. I guess i was just looking for something that was actually what vince played, and i don't think vince played thick jazz chords. Not the way i hear it. It's not that i want to learn it his way and never play it any other way. I just want to start from how he did it. Get into his style, and see what i can learn from it. ya know what i mean?

(God i need to get out there and play with some good jazz musician.. i feel like i'm in a cell just playing my piano by myself.. i need to share this

You think so? Wow. I always loved Vince's bluesy voicings. Lots of ninths over seveths, cool chromatic things, etc.