[JPL] Press Release: Vince Guaraldi Tribute event

[Toby Gleason]

Dear JPL'er's,

The following is a Press Release for a free, live, Vince Guaraldi  
Tribute event I am co-producing in Culver City, CA on Easter Sunday at  
The Jazz Bakery, to be videotaped as part of the upcoming Vince  
Guaraldi documentary documentary I'm co-producing entitled Ralph J.  
Gleason Presents The Anatomy Of Vince Guaraldi.

Any of you who will be in the area on Easter are welcome to respond to  
the listed reservations list e-mail address, or to me at trg at jazzcasual.com 
..

Happy Easter!

Toby Gleason
Jazz Director-KRCB, Santa Rosa
President-Jazz Casual Productions, Inc.

A CELEBRATION OF VINCE GUARALDI
Live Jazz, New Guaraldi Tracks, and Rev. Malcolm Boyd


In 1966, Vince Guaraldi and Rev. Malcolm Boyd caused a national  
sensation
with their extraordinary collaboration of music and spoken word  
performances
at San Francisco's legendary hungry i.

Vince Guaraldi was already enjoying great popularity with his  
composition
"Cast Your Fate To The Wind" and his original jazz scores for the  
Peanuts cartoons,
and had performed his inventive Jazz Mass at Grace Cathedral along with
Boyd the year before.

Malcolm Boyd (the original "coffee house priest") was a best selling  
author, and an
outspoken participant in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.  The  
New York Times
called him a "modern day Luther", and Look magazine listed him as one  
of the ten
most important Americans in 1970.

On Easter Sunday, April 12, their landmark collaboration will be  
reprised ––
featuring recently discovered recordings of Vince Guaraldi blended  
with a live
jazz quartet, fused with Malcolm Boyd's live performance of his most
important writings.

Two performances (1:30 PM and 4 PM) will both be filmed for a new  
documentary
entitled "Ralph J. Gleason  Presents the Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi",  
which will premiere
at this year's  Monterey Jazz Festival.

Admission is complimentary and open to the public, though reservations  
are
strongly advised.  Available seats will be available at show time, but  
RSVPs
will be accepted in advance by writing to:  vince.and.malcolm at hyperfire.com
Please mention your name, preferred performance, and number of seats  
requested.

This program includes mature content.

The special jazz quartet for this performance includes Marino Bambino,  
Elissa Lala,
Scott Page-Pagter and Johnnie Valentino.