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Vince Guaraldi was a well-respected jazz pianist whose greatest success came from avenues usually closed to contemporary jazz artists: he enjoyed a hit single at a time when jazz had largely been exiled from the pop charts, and he scored a series of very successful animated television specials (namely the Charlie Brown seasonal specials scores and soundtracks for which his name has become synonymous), a medium where cookie-cutter pop music was traditionally the order of the day.

Guitarist Steve Kimock is currently in the middle of a tour with his new project featuring bassist Bobby Vega, drummer John Kimock and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Leslie Mendelson. “Satellite City” is a collaboration by K I M O C K and has become a staple of the group’s live sets. Steve Kimock wrote the song with John Kimock and Leslie Mendelson. Leslie starts the tune with a vocal melody and employs the crowd’s participation to sing along “like we’re just a bunch of owls.”