Giovanni Mirabassi

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Giovanni Mirabassi (* 4. May 1970 in Perugia ) is an Italian jazz - pianist and composer .

Live and act

Mirabassi is self-taught; early influences were the records by Bud Powell , Art Tatum , Oscar Peterson and Jaki Byard , finally Bill Evans , Kenny Barron , Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett as well as the Roman pianist Enrico Pieranunzi . At the age of 17 he was given the opportunity to accompany Chet Baker on a performance in Perugia. Two years later he went on a nationwide tour with Steve Grossman . In 1992 he moved to Paris, where several Italian jazz musicians, including Stefano Di Battista , Paolo Fresu and Flavio Boltro, worked. Here he had lessons from Aldo Ciccolini . He played in clubs with Parisian musicians, especially chansonniers , who also gave him his first professional engagements.

In 1994 he founded the Panta Rei Trio with Alain Raman on bass and Xavier Frathely on drums . At the same time he worked in the chanson scene both as a musician and as a composer; he worked on the album of the singer Agnès Bihl La Terre est blonde and worked with Nicolas Reggiani (singer / actor and grandson of Serge Reggiani ) on the 2003 recorded Léo en toure liberté , an album with previously unreleased songs by Léo Ferré in
1996 with bassist Pierre-Stéphane Michel and Flavio Boltro on trumpet under the band name Dyade the album En bonne et due forme , which brought him the Grand Prix and an award as best soloist at the International Jazz Days in Avignon . From then on he worked as a band leader; with Louis Moutin (drums) and Daniele Mencarelli (bass). He also worked on Gabriele Mirabassis Cambaluc with Richard Galliano and Riccardo Tesi ; In 1998 Mirabassi recorded the album Architectures with his new trio on the Sketch label . The solo album Avanti followed in 2001 , a collection of political songs and revolutionary hymns from Hasta Siempre to Le chant des Partisans to John Lennon's Imagine , which Mirabassi transferred to a jazz context.

He also worked on the album Dreadlines (2002) with the Polish pianist Andrzej Jagodzinski ; In 2003 the album ((Air)) was created with trombonist Glenn Ferris and trumpeter Flavio Boltro . In 2005 he toured with Tim Whitehead's group ; this resulted in the joint album Lucky Boys . In 2007 Mirabassi recorded the album Artero Brel , with interpretations of French chanson classics from Serge Gainsbourg to Jacques Brel ; In 2008 Mirabassi recorded Terra Furiosa in a classical trio formation; he was accompanied by the drummer Leon Parker and the double bass player Gianluca Renzi .

Mirabassi worked as a composer of chansons and film music; he wrote the music for the short film Sisters .

Discographic notes

  • Dyad - En bonne et due forme (1996)
  • Architectures (Sketch, 1998)
  • Avanti! (Sketch, 2000) solo
  • Da Vivo! (Sketch, 2001) Trio
  • ((air)) (Stetch, 2003) with Glenn Ferris, Flavio Boltro
  • Prima o poi (2005)
  • Cantopiano (2006)
  • Terra Furiosa (2008)
  • Adelante (Discograph, 2011)
  • Viva Verdi ( CAM Jazz , 2012)
  • No Way Out (CAM, 2015)
  • Live in Germany (2017)
  • Summer's Gone (CAMJazz, 2018)
  • Improkofiev (2020), with Stephane Spira

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personal data
SURNAME Mirabassi, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Perugia