Enrico Zanisi - Piano Tales review: moving, varied and beautiful

Italian pianist Enrico Zanisi has no right to sound so mature and developed in his mid-20s.

Up to now, the young Roman virtuoso has favoured the trio format, displaying an understandable reverence for Evans, Jarrett and Mehldau without slavishly copying any of them.

This time, he gives the rhythm section a day off and a more personal story emerges.

Though there is clearly plenty of technique to call on, the young pianist never shows off, putting his virtuosity at the service of a series of moving autobiographical sketches that are as varied as they are beautiful.

It may be a story that has barely begun, but Zanisi's Piano Tales tell of a musical mind that is already subtle, inventive, tender and directly connected to his heart.

[ enricozanisi.com ]