Thanks Karl – I’m really glad you enjoyed it!

I agree it’s a beautiful interpretation by Pianista Italiano; full of really interesting harmonic and melodic devices to create texture when playing solo piano.

The chapter titles that I have added outline the key devices he is using. His rich sus13 chords moving to altered dominants & his upper structure triad runs and voicings are the main ways that he adds interesting colours and textures to his playing.

Talk soon, cheers,
Hayden

ps. Here are a couple of references:

1. In chapter 6 I mention this course for simple melodic ideas over minor chords: https://www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons/minor-harmony-improvisation/ – the ideas that we cover in this course are similar to his melody over the F-7 in the intro where he is using the first 5 notes of the minor scale.

2. Around 20 minutes into the seminar we analyse the movement of Imaj7 to IV7 to setup the iii-7 chord. We use this exact same movement in “The Most Beautiful Intro Progression” here: https://www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons/beautiful-chord-progression/ – and it’s interesting to see how Pianista Italiano uses this same movement in the key of Db Major with his crunchy rootless voicings.