BAY SHORE Dr. King's Park Tommy Keys, piano.
WHITE PLAINS Grace Church Sun-A Park, classical piano.
Seen from the park Mr. Piano's structure immediately brings to mind the work of Mies van der Rohe, a pillar of modern architecture who moved to Chicago from Germany in the 1930s.
The album — which will be released on Nineteen-Eight Records (nineteeneight.com) on Thursday, the same day Mr. Vinson plays two sets at the Jazz Gallery — also features Aaron Parks on piano, Orlando Le Fleming on bass and Rodney Green on drums.
(Chinen) Chris Morrissey (Friday and Saturday) A bassist with at least one foot planted on the terra firma of alternative rock, Chris Morrissey has a smart new album, "North Hero" (Sunnyside), featuring the same sturdy crew that joins him here: Aaron Parks on piano, Mark Guiliana on drums, and in a featured role, his fellow Minnesotan Mike Lewis on saxophone.
(Chinen) WILL VINSON QUINTET (Sunday) Mr. Vinson, a young alto saxophonist, favors the sort of progressive post-bop that gained traction in the mid-1960's mid-1960'strong support from Aaron Parks on piano, Lage Lund on guitar, Orlando le Fleming on bass and Rodney Green on drums.
On corners, in parks, the pianos will be an eyeful as well as an earful, with attention-getting cases and living-color keys - green or blue, or all black instead of the usual allotment of 52 white and 36 black.
Then downtown again, to the West Village, where the Yamaha company had parked four pianos in the middle of Cornelia Street, and members of Composers Collaborative, led by Jed Distler, were performing "Canto Ostinato," by the Dutch minimalist Simeon ten Holt.
By Arnold Sagelyn and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, January 12 , 1952P. 19 Sign in an illegally parked car: "Emergency Piano Repair".
Aside from a player grand piano parked mid-street, like a detail from a Magritte painting, the Village is a wry mirror image of reality.
The children's hospital offers valet parking, a player piano in the lobby, art work by Andy Warhol and an enormous, playful Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture on the lawn for children to enjoy.
