Enrico Pieranunzi

Then, at a certain point, I “discovered” the beauty and expressive power of melody. And I began to consider the issue of storytelling in music. Because melody implies precisely this: the ability to tell a story. Except that, from this point of view, the piano is a more difficult instrument than a trumpet, a saxophone or the human voice. So, once I understood that virtuosity, moving your hands quickly across the piano, is certainly interesting, spectacular and beautiful to watch, but tells us little, the problem remained, and it was not an easy one to solve, of making the piano “sing”. In short, at a certain point in my musical career, I entered a crisis and began to look at sounds and musical expression in a completely different way than before, completely changing my aesthetic.

Enrico Pieranunzi
Interview, All About Jazz