Giovanni Mirabassi

出生于意大利中部小镇Perugia的钢琴手Giovanni Mirabassi，自学出身，自陈是在十一岁那年听到John Coltrane的Village Vanguard现场录音后，开始对爵士乐产生兴趣。两位对他有重大影响的乐手中，一位是意大利的古典钢琴手Aldo Ciccolini；另一位则是曾多次造访停留的小喇叭手Chet Baker。Giovanni Mirabassi九二年移居法国巴黎，九六年在鼓手Daniel Humair担任主席的钢琴大赛拿下第一名后，迄今在SKETCH旗下发行了四张挂头牌专辑。 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.