The Great Pumpkin Waltz (from "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"). Fall Covers 🍂🎃 No. 3

A HUGE thank you to Adele Shirkey for lending her beautiful flute playing to this silly project of mine! :)

"The Great Pumpkin Waltz" by Vince Guaraldi was written as incidental music for the animated Halloween television special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), the follow-up to the immensely popular A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).The tune is first heard when Linus is witting a letter to the Great Pumpkin.

Given that this tune was made as background music for a Halloween special, probably the last place I would write for an underutilized instrument, it must needs be remarked that this composition is a rare Alto Flute feature, an uncommon instrument in most styles and genres, let alone Jazz!

Happy Autumn!!! 🍂🎃