Davisville, July 1, 2024: Guaraldi time is here, 2nd edition
“Vince is always pulling splinters from his fingers, driven in when he claws at the wooden baseboard, behind the keys,” wrote Bay Area music critic Ralph Gleason, as quoted in Davis author Derrick Bang’s newly revised book Vince Guaraldi at the Piano. The splinters came from Guaraldi’s intense pl...
Davisville, Nov. 25, 2024: For this year’s movie show, 2024 Derrick quotes 1974 Derrick
This fall’s annual movie show with Derrick Bang arrives with a few extras. To note his 50 years as a movie critic, he reads — and critiques! — the first paragraph of the first movie review he wrote, in 1974 for the California Aggie at UC Davis. We also hear from a film director who worried Derric...
141: GIVING YOU SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
In episde 141, tragedy and deprivation abound. Spirits alight up Camp Springlake in "Camp Snoopy", S1, Ep 12, while the gang stalks Charlie Brown to take what's his. Wondering what in the world I'm talking about? Well, you'll just have to listen!
We've also got May's News & Feedback and a "Rando...
Davisville, Aug. 4, 2025: ‘I want him (Guaraldi) to become one of our Tchaikovskys’
Vince Guaraldi’s music continues to have a wonderful afterlife, thanks to the successful recent releases of the Peanuts soundtracks that Guaraldi recorded before he died at 47 in 1976. Today we update the story with Derrick Bang, who wrote the book about the San Francisco jazz pianist and writes ...
First Presbyterian Church Clarks Summit; Rev. Bill Carter; Derrick Bang; August 18 2025
Rev. Bill Carter, Pastor of the 1st Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit, jazz pianist, composer, arranger & band leader, and Derrick Bang, biographer of Vince Guaraldi,speaking about the Jazz Mass Guaraldi composed for Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.To mark the 60th anniversary of the premiere...
First Presbyterian Church Clarks Summit; Rev Bill Carter; Derrick Bang; August 18 2025 (Correct Version)
Rev. Bill Carter, Pastor of the 1st Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit, jazz pianist, composer, arranger & band leader, and Derrick Bang, biographer of Vince Guaraldi,speaking about the Jazz Mass Guaraldi composed for Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.To mark the 60th anniversary of the premiere...
A Guide to All Things Peanuts
This week Melissa and Damian speak with Derrick Bang - whose book, 50 years of happiness: A tribute to Charles M. Schulz, is the reference guide for Peanuts employees to gain even deeper knowledge of the brand. We dive in to all things Peanuts, as well as Derrick's other works that encapsulate th...
Davisville, Nov. 17, 2025: Davis critic Derrick Bang sizes up 2025’s year-end movies
Today we enjoy Davisville’s annual fall movie show in which Davis film critic Derrick Bang (pictured at KDRT on Nov. 16) tells us about movies he’s looking forward to as 2025 ends, plus ones he’ll dodge if he sees them sauntering his way. Unless they’re playing in Davis, in which case he feels ob...
Guaraldi Mass Redux
The co-hosts return to one of their favorite conversation partners: Derrick Bang, author of Vince Guaraldi at the Piano (second edition). They have a fresh conversation about Guaraldi and his work of creating a jazz mass in 1965 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Check out his wonderful book!
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Meet Vince Guaraldi and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (An Encore Presentation)
I hope this will be the last week that "Twelve Songs" will be affected by my book project. I've returned this week to 2022 and an interesting conversation with scholar Derrick Bang about Vince Guaraldi and A Charlie Brown Christmas. We talked after the release of the Super Deluxe version of the a...
