Giovanni Maier

Giovanni Maier (* 26. August 1965 in Staranzano ) is an Italian jazz - bassist and composer .

Live and act

Maier graduated from the Conservatorio G. Tartini in Trieste in 1988 . From 1987 he belonged to the Transition Jazz Group , with which he recorded several albums. Since the late 1980s he has worked in the Italian jazz and improvisation scene, as well as with American musicians such as Butch Morris , Roscoe Mitchell , Muhal Richard Abrams , Cecil Taylor , Anthony Braxton , Roswell Rudd , Tristan Honsinger , Tim Berne , Chris Speed , Benny Golson and European musicians like Ernst Reijseger , Willem Breuker , Wolter Wierbos , Richard Galliano and Yves Robert . He played in Enrico Rava's formation Electric Five and later projects, in Pino Minafra's Sud Ensemble , with Tiziano Tononi , Daniele Cavallanti and in the Umberto Petrin Trio, and occasionally in the Italian Unabile Orchestra . He also works with his own formations, such as the Mosaic Orchestra and numerous duo and trio projects, such as with Roberto Cecchetto , Michele Rabbia , Lauro Rossi , Tino Tracanna , Guido Mazzon , Claudio Lodati , Luca Calabrese , Sebi Tramontana , Roberto Bellatalla and im Triosonic with Stefano Battaglia and Michele Rabbia ( ECM album, 2005). Since 2009 he has been a lecturer at the Conservatorio G. Tartini in Trieste.

Discographic notes

• Hasta Siempre (1993), with Claudio Cojaniz, UT Ghandi
• Polaroid (Nota, 1998)
• Exposure: Live Bass Solo (Nota, 2000)
• Mosaic Orchestra, Vol. 1 (Artesuono, 2001), with Umberto Petrin , Enrico Sartori , Zeno De Rossi , Lauro Rossi, Luca Calabrese, Saverio Tasca
• Slow Mood (Artesuono, 2003)
• We Are (Symphonia, 2003) with Michele Rabbia
• The Face of the Bass (Palomar Records, 2003) solo
• Audio smog (GMP, 2003) solo
• Incroci Obbligati (Palomar Records, 2004), with Lauro Rossi
• Blues Connotation (Artesuono, 2007), with Roberto Cecchetto
• Three Lines (Artesuono, 2007)
• Entropia (Palomar Records, 2009), with Guido Mazzon
• Odes (Palomar Records, 2009) with Claudio Lodati
• Pages (Palomar Records, 2011) solo
• Live at Dobialab (Palomar Records, 2011) with Sebi Tramontana

Web links

• Web presence
• Giovanni Maier at Allmusic (English)
• Giovanni Maier at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

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