Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for December 07, 2020

My older brother was a trombonist in middle school and high school (and community college); played classical and jazz thereon.

Last time this one came around someone commented that just over a decade later Schroeder would introduce one of the most popular jazz pieces ever.

Schroeder, meet Vince Guaraldi… ;)

Beethoven just rolled over.

I don’t know if he told Tchaikovsky the news.

How about “Classical Jazz” {Mason Williams)! OK number!

Just don’t ask him about Polkas, Scottishes, and Waltzes! (I can still see Snoopy with his accordion.)

Roll Over Beethoven!

I love jazz.

Wait…I saw Schroeder playing jazz on A Charlie Brown Christmas just the other day. :D

“Um, what kind of music do you usually get here?”

“Oh, we got both kinds…country and western!”

Welllll, they DO call it ‘cool jazz’.

Schroeder’s playing Bach’s “Prelude in C” from the Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach’s 2nd wife, if I recall). Some of you might find it more familiar as the accompaniment to the Bach-Gounod “Ave Maria.”

Schroeder is a purist. He would react similarly to the atonal twelve-tone music that attracted composers and alienated listeners in the twentieth century.

“Relax, you’ll be OK, Take Five…”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” ☺

Mozart in the 1950s would have been Jerry Lee Lewis…..

So, is that a Schrudder, then??

Always found it interesting that I have preferred classical AND jazz to other forms of music all my life, which others seem to find odd.

I Love To Sing-a

Start the car,

I know a whoopee spot

Where the gin is cold

But the piano’s hot!

It’s just a noisy hall

Where there’s a nightly brawl

And all that jazz!

Wonder what Schroeder would think of Rock.

Schroeder (at least at this point) was way too narrow minded. Actually there was plenty of mutual respect between classical and jazz musicians. When George Gershwin wanted to study with Maurice Ravel, Ravel supposedly told him, “Why become a second-rate Ravel when you’re already a first-rate Gershwin?” As for piano playing specifically, leading classical pianists were big admirers of Art Tatum. It’s said that one asked Tatum how long it took for him to memorize the complicated things he played, not realizing that Tatum was improvising. My impression is that generally speaking, it is fans who are more likely to be dismissive of genres other than the one they are into. Most of the best musicians tend to respect talent regardless of genre.

Well, there’s cool jazz and then there’s hot jazz. I never heard of ice cold jazz, though.