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Giovanni Mirabassi is a Paris-based Italian jazz pianist, born 4 May 1970 inPerugia, Italy.Self-taught, he learned by listening toBud Powell,Art Tatum, andOscar Peterson. He is strongly influenced byEnrico Pieranunzi. At seventeen, after a few important experiences in Italy (he played withChet Baker in 1987 and withSteve Grossman in 1988), he settled in Paris in 1992.
In 1996, he recorded his first album with Pierre-Stéphane Michel on upright bass andFlavio Boltro on trumpet, winning thegrand prix and the best soloist prize at the Concours International de Jazz d'Avignon,[1] presided byDaniel 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 aVictoire du Jazz in 2002). Mirabassi began touring regularly, as part a trio or alone. He became very popular, especially in Japan.
In 2005, he released a new CD,Prima o poi, featuring a trio and a quartet, on 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.
Over a period of ten years, Giovanni Mirabassi has produced a dozen CDs and DVDs (some of them concerts released only in Japan) and performed all around the world.
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