Pianists · b. 1970

Giovanni Mirabassi

Italian musician

Born: 4 May 1970
Perugia
Country: Italy
Record labels: CAM Jazz, Bee Jazz, Sawano Kohboh

Biography

Giovanni Mirabassi is a jazz musician who plays piano. Giovanni Mirabassi was born on 4 May 1970 in Perugia. The music is usually filed under jazz. Record labels: CAM Jazz, Bee Jazz and Sawano Kohboh. Honours include Victoires du Jazz (2002) and Django d'Or (2002).

Giovanni Mirabassi is a Paris-based Italian jazz pianist, born 4 May 1970 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, after a few important experiences in Italy (he played with Chet Baker in 1987 and with Steve Grossman in 1988), he settled in Paris in 1992. In 1996, he recorded his first album with Pierre-Stéphane Michel on upright bass and Flavio Boltro on trumpet, winning the grand prix and the best soloist prize at the Concours International de Jazz d'Avignon, presided by Daniel Humair. In 2001, Giovanni Mirabassi released 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 Victoire du Jazz in 2002). Mirabassi began touring regularly, as part a trio or alone.

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