Gabriele Mirabassi

Gabriele Mirabassi at the TFF Rudolstadt 2013

Gabriele Mirabassi (born September 16, 1967 in Perugia ) is an Italian ( jazz ) clarinetist. He is the brother of the jazz pianist Giovanni Mirabassi .

Live and act

Mirabassi studied contemporary classical music at the Conservatorio F. Morlacchi until 1986 . He initially emerged as an interpreter of modern classical music. With other musicians he founded the L'Artisanat Furteux Ensemble in 1986 , which was active until 1992. He performed regularly with the Ensemble dei Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea , the Ensemble Veni from Bratislava and the Ensemble Musica Negativa from Frankfurt and worked with musicians such as John Cage , Gunther Schuller , Jürg Wittenbach , Siegfried Palm , Louis Andriessen and Rainer Riehn .

Since 1992 he has worked with jazz musicians such as Richard Galliano , Stefano Battaglia , Enrico Pieranunzi , Riccardo Zegna and above all Battista Lena and performed at international jazz festivals. In 1996 he was voted Musician of the Year in Italy. In 1997, he received the German Record Critics' Prize for the album Duty Free . He founded his own trio with the accordionist Luciano Biondini and the tuba player Michel Godard . At the Umbria Jazz Festival 2001 he presented his Brazilian project Pixinguinha . In the same year he became a member of Rabih Abou-Khalil's band with Biondi and Godard .

Gabriele Mirabassi (February 2015)

Discography

• Electroacoustic quartetto , 1990
• Coloriage with Richard Galliano (Egea, 1992)
• Pyromaniax with Focuspocus (Ixthuluh, 1993)
• Fiabe with Stefano Battaglia (Egea, 1995)
• Come una volta with Gianni Coscia , Battista Lena , Enzo Pietropaoli (Egea, 1996)
• Duty Free with Focuspocus (Extraplatte, 1997)
• Cambaluc with Richard Galliano, Battista Lena, Giovanni Mirabassi , Riccardo Tesi (Egea, 1997)
• Velho Retrato with Sergio Assad (Egea, 1999)
• Racconti mediterranei with Enrico Pieranunzi , Marc Johnson (Egea, 2000)
• Lo Stortino with Luciano Biondini , Francesco d'Auria , Michel Godard (Egea, 2000)
• Piccolo Valzer with Riccardo Zegna and Pietro Tonolo (Egea, 2000)
• Luna Park with Giampaolo Casati , Rossano Emili , Massimo Pirone , Roberto Rossi , Pietro Tonolo (Egea, 2000)
• Moon with Kenny Wheeler , John Taylor (Egea, 2001)
• 1 - 0 (Una a zero) with Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard, Patrick Vaillant (Egea, 2001)
• Fuori le mura (Egea, 2003)
• Latakia Blend with Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard (Enja, 2004)
• Graffiando vento with Guinga (Egea, 2004)
• John Taylor, Steve Swallow , Gabriele Mirabassi New Old Age (Egea, 2005)
• Tango mediterraneo with the Nuevo Tango Ensamble ( Jazzhaus , 2008)
• Canto di ebano with Peo Alfonsi , Salvatore Maiore, Alfred Kramer (Egea, 2008)
• Miramari with Andrè Mehmari (Egea, 2010)
• A testa in giù! with Orchestra à base de sopro de Curitiba (Egea, 2013)

Web links / sources

Commons : Gabriele Mirabassi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait in the jazz newspaper