When television producer Lee Mendelson heard jazz pianist/composer Vince Guaraldi's hit single "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" on his car radio, he thought he had found the right composer for the ...

In the early 1960s, budding filmmaker Lee Mendelson made a documentary about baseball player Willie Mays that aired on NBC. When he was looking for his next project, he turned to the newspaper. “I was ...

Pianist George Winston plays for "Peanuts." "Winston's latest album, "Love Will Come," is a tribute to Vince Guaraldi, the California jazz pianist whose score work is synonymous with Charles Schulz's ...

Vince Guaraldi enlarged our daily newsprint encounter with Charles Schulz’s comic strips into TV specials and movies. He thrust us inside the Peanuts Gang’s breezy, 1960s Latin-inspired jazz sounds ...

Schulz, who died in 2000, spoke in 1990 about his iconic Peanuts comic strip. Plus, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead talks about pianist Vince Guaraldi, who created the music for A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Linus van Pelt is among the most underrated characters in the Peanuts comic strip series. The little brother of Lucy van Pelt adds so much more to the comics than people give him credit for. Often ...

For Americans who came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, Charles Schulz’s comic strip “Peanuts” was a pervasive cultural presence. The strip appeared in newspapers nationwide, and Schulz’s quartet of main ...

The return today of the comic strip "Peanuts" to The Canton Repository – along with a varying lineup of other new and old comics – brings to mind the moment when Stark County readers were introduced ...