The Sunday evening portion of the Monterey Jazz Festival could be termed Night of the Piano with all the keyboards and keyboardists being showcased.
Truth be told, if you took the weekend as a whole, you could have easily called it the Monterey Jazz Piano Festival because you couldn't throw a fried chicken wing ($13 a bucket) without hitting one all weekend. There were young pianists, old pianists, pianists who pounded the keys with abandon, pianists who gently stroked the keys, pianists who used all sorts of effects, even pianists who also played the melodica, which looks like a child's toy.
But Sunday night was the height of piano artistry, with Jason Moran & Bandwagon debuting the festival's commissioned piece (titled "Feedback"), octogenarian Dave Brubeck celebrating the 50th anniversary of the seminal jazz album "Time Out," and Chick Corea reuniting with two of his Return to Forever mates, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White, all three pianists performing in the main arena.
But there was also some piano artistry on the grounds stages Sunday night, with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Vijay Iyer, Buffalo Collision's Ethan Iverson, James Weidman with Joe Lovano's Us Five and Dan Nimmer with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
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