Giovanni Mirabassi

出生于意大利中部小鎮(zhèn)Perugia的鋼琴手Giovanni Mirabassi，自學出身，自陳是在十一歲那年聽到John Coltrane的Village Vanguard現(xiàn)場錄音后，開始對爵士樂產(chǎn)生興趣。兩位對他有重大影響的樂手中，一位是意大利的古典鋼琴手Aldo Ciccolini；另一位則是曾多次造訪停留的小喇叭手Chet Baker。Giovanni Mirabassi九二年移居法國巴黎，九六年在鼓手Daniel Humair擔任主席的鋼琴大賽拿下第一名后，迄今在SKETCH旗下發(fā)行了四張掛頭牌專輯。

Giovanni Mirabassi is a Paris-based Italian jazz pianist, born in Perugia, Italy. Self-taught, he learned by listening to Bud Powell, Art Tatum, and Oscar Peterson. He is strongly influenced by Enrico Pieranunzi. At seventeen, fter a few important experiences in Italy (he played with musicians Chet Baker in 1987 and with Steve Grossman in 1988), he settled in Paris in 1992.
In 1996, he debuted his first album with Pierre-Stéphane Michel on the upright bass and Flavio Boltro on the trumpet, and obtained the “grand prix” and the best soloist prize at the Concours International de Jazz d'Avignon[1], presided by Daniel Humair.
In 2001, Giovanni Mirabassi published his first solo album, Avanti!: a collection of songs about revolutions, which he had been thinking of for years. This record was an important milestone in his career (Django d’Or of the best young talent and a Victoires du Jazz in 2002. Mirabassi began touring regularly, as part a trio or alone. He became very popular, especially in Japan.
At the end of 2005, he released a new CD, Prima o poi, as part of a trio and of a quartet, under the Minium label. A year later, he released another record of standards of French “chanson”, Cantopiano, which brought together his two preferred musical universes. Those two CDs, still saluted by public and media, anchored his unusual position in the world of jazz. In ten years time, Giovanni Mirabassi produced a dozen CDs and DVDs (some of them concerts released only in Japan) and performed all around the world.
In 2008, the pianist released a new CD as part of a piano trio, Terra furiosa.