Many of his pieces, self-described as 'Rural Folk Piano', evoke the essence of a season and reflect natural landscapes.
He is a graduate of Stetson University in Deland, Florida and lives in Santa Monica, California. alone and it helped the label for which it was originally recorded, Windham Hill, to get international distribution. George Winston (born 1949) is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up in Miles City, Montana, and Mississippi. December has been certified as selling over three million copies in the U.S. Winston’s fourth album, December, recorded in Octo ber 1982, is now a holiday classic and his greatest selling album. So I got the album, and found ‘Linus and Lucy,’ and played it about 100 times on my record player.”
GEORGE WINSTON THANKSGIVING TV
The TV episode credits had run by so fast, I hadn’t seen it was Vince Guaraldi. And I looked at it, and thought, Oh, Vince Guaraldi, the ‘Cast Your Fate’ guy. And I went to the record store the next day - just to go to the record store - and there was the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, up on the wall. A lot of us remember where we were, the first time we heard ‘Linus and Lucy’ in that special, during the dance segment….Vince’s piano just drove me crazy. And I thought, wow, I’ve got to see that. I first heard him in 1962, with ‘Cast Your Fate to the Wind’….And then in December 1965, I was a fan of animation, and I saw in the TV Guide that there was going to be a cartoon of the Peanuts characters, A Charlie Brown Christmas. I play way more of his songs than by any other composer. I love Vince’s piano playing, and I love his compositions. Vince Guaraldi’s song, Cast Your Fate to the Wind, and his music for A Charlie Brown Christmas were major influences on Winston when he was a teenager. One of the most successful pianists of all time, George Winston established his unique and iconic style over forty years ago.
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