Walking out on stage at 9 p.m., pianist Ahmad Jamal didn?t make any big deal of his Monterey debut. He just started playing, hitting his first chords while standing. It?s half a century since the Pershing. His music, long ago, became heavily percussive, slammingly so. It?s muscular music that he plays ? it sounds like music from a fierce gentleman.
He?s still an overwhelmingly orchestral player, with massive classical chops, so the music winds up sounding like Liszt meeting jazz fusion, kind of hyper-active on all fronts. It?s highly ordered and rococo and the arrangements and punctuations ? i.e. those huge ten-fingered chords ? keep changing. Jamal maintains order with a system of cues that he?s cooked up over the years. His band mates ? all virtuoso players, like their boss ? are drummer Herlin Riley, bassist James Cammack and percussionist Manolo Badrena.
It?s a great band. But even ?Poinciana? sounded turbo-charged and steely-edged. I?m more impressed than moved, so I?m going to try and catch some of Roy Haynes? set in Dizzy?s Den.
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