danno858, yeah, it kinda depends on the transcription. The original Charlie Brown music was a trio, piano / bass / drums. And often, transcriptions are trying to at least fill in an approximation of the piano and bass, sometimes more effectively than others, for piano solo.
Something else I find is that Vince did a lot of improv that I have a hard time getting my head wrapped around completely (and sometimes don't even like) but am more and more OK with that of late because I wanna be a good player in my own standing and not just a Vince mini-me, or an Oscar Peterson mini-me, or an Art Tatum mini-me. It's good to figure out, know, and maybe even be able to do something exactly as someone else did, there is value in that. But repeating it over and over exactly the same way? If I wanted to do that, I'd be playing classical music, and that, I do not do anymore. It doesn't take long, when playing a classical piece and playing it the way I feel it, before someone "good and proper" will tell me how "wrong" I'm doing it... (probably a bunny trail, and some won't agree with me)...
