David Virelles

Modern jazz piano is a piano-led jazz style that emphasizes sophisticated harmony, flexible time feel, and highly personalized improvisation. Compared with earlier stride and swing-era approaches, it typically uses richer chord extensions, altered dominants, modal harmony, and more advanced voice-leading. The style can be heard in small-group settings (trios and quartets) and solo piano, ranging from lyrical ballad playing to angular, rhythmically complex post-bop language. It often balances clear melodic storytelling with contemporary harmonic color, and it commonly integrates influences from classical music, soul, and modern jazz aesthetics.