An Afternoon with the Vince Guaraldi Quartet

An Afternoon with the Vince Guaraldi Quartet is a live performance double CD by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (credited to the Vince Guaraldi Quartet), released on November 24, 2011, by V.A.G. Publishing. To date, it is the last album compiled and produced by Guaraldi's son, David.^[2]

An Afternoon with the Vince Guaraldi Quartet
Live album by Vince Guaraldi
Released	November 24, 2011
Recorded	October 17–29, 1967
Venue	Old Town Theater, Los Gatos, California
Genre	Jazz
Length	74:19
Label	V.A.G. Publishing
Producer	David Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi chronology
Peanuts Portraits (2010) An Afternoon with the Vince Guaraldi Quartet (2011) The Very Best of Vince Guaraldi (2012)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Five Cents Please	[1]

Background

Advertisement for Guaraldi's two-week performance engagement at the Old Town Theater, published in The Spartan Daily, October 24, 1967

Sometime after composing the soundtrack for the Peanuts television special You're in Love, Charlie Brown, Guaraldi accepted a two-week performance engagement at the Old Town Theatre in Los Gatos, California. The tracks contained on An Afternoon with the Vince Guaraldi Quartet were recorded during several of those performances, which took place on October 17–29, 1967.^[2]

It was soon after these performances that Guaraldi veered away from traditional jazz and began experimenting with electronic keyboards that Guaraldi historian Derrick Bang described as a "fusion-laced detour" resulting in albums like The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi (1969).^[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Vince Guaraldi except where noted.

Disc One

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Ode to Billie Joe"	Bobbie Gentry	8:49
2.	"Goin' Out of My Head"	Teddy Randazzo Bobby Weinstein	10:26
3.	"Eleanor Rigby"	John Lennon Paul McCartney	8:16
4.	"Nobody Else"		9:16
Total length:			36:47

Disc Two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Theme From Exodus"	Ernest Gold	7:04
6.	"Linus and Lucy"		3:56
7.	"Once I Loved"	Antônio Carlos Jobim Vinícius de Moraes	10:20
8.	"Sunny Goodge Street" (mistitled "Autumn Leaves"[3])	Donovan Leitch	8:02
9.	"Cast Your Fate to the Wind"		8:10
Total length:			37:32

Personnel

Vince Guaraldi Quartet

• Vince Guaraldi – piano, keyboards
• Eddie Duran – guitar
• Andy Acosta – electric bass
• Al Coster – drums^[1]