★★★★★
Pianist George Winston, along with guitarist Alex DeGrassi, laid the cornerstone of music that became known as "new-age." In celebrating the genius of Vince Guaraldi, Winston applies his soothing improvisational style to the composer's classics and several lesser-known ones. Guaraldi's joyful caprice and consummate swingability remain evident on hits such as "Linus & Lucy," "Skating," "Peppermint Patty" and "You're in Love, Charlie Brown...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Whatever his limitations as a pianist, George Winston
has always been a champion of the music he loves, including that
of late great pianist Vince Guaraldi. What Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi lacks in
finesse, sophistication, and jazz fluency, it gains in warm
nostalgic spirit, drawn from the creative well of Guaraldi, who
had a gentle-yet-urbane way with a song. ''Great Pumpkin Waltz,''
for instance, could make a grown person cry. C+
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
It's almost a shame thatpianist George Winston is such a pillar of the New Age-heavy WindhamHill label, because this album ? the long-in-coming fourth volume ofhis "seasonal" solo collections, following Autumn (1980), December,and Winter into Spring (both 1982) ? is not only his best yet but justthe kind of thing a lot of people who shun this type of music onprinciple might actually like...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Track Listing: Black Bottom Stomp; King Porter Stomp; Kansas City Stomp; Shreveport Stomp; Billy GoatStomp; Grandpa's Spells; Dead Man Blues; Winin' Boy Blues; Milenberg Joys; I Thought I HeardBuddy Bolden Say; Dirty, Dirty, Dirty; Make Me a Pallet on the Floor. Personnel: George Winston: piano; Huck Twohig: jazz piano coach, liner notes;Edie Ott: producer...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Winston's impressions of the fall season are full of slow chording and sudden melodic runs on his acoustic piano. He captures the mixed feelings of the season, both its final flaring of life and its gradual retreat.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
A love letter to his home state, Montana is George Winston's most varied album since 1999's Plains and probably his most personal album, ever. His last album -- 2002's Night Divides the Day -- focused on his first musical inspiration, the Doors. Montana goes deeper into his heart, back to childhood memories of his family's house, lullabies, and first encounters with songs that would later hold great personal meaning. It's this kind of genuine wonder of it all that makes Montana so great...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28