简介：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。\n \nGiovanni 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.\nIn 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, presided by Daniel Humair.\nIn 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.\nAt 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.\nIn 2008, the pianist released a new CD as part of a piano trio, Terra furiosa. 基本资料：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。 <br/> <br/>Giovanni Mirabassi自学出身，且自陈除了爵士乐以外，阿根廷的探戈音乐（如Piazzolla）、古典乐（如Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Stockhausen）、流行与摇滚（Elton John, Police and Led Zeppelin）等音乐类型也都听，就算是爵士乐手中，也从纽奥良、摇摆曲风的Barney Bigard，咆勃的Charlie Parker、Clifford Brown，听到Mingus乐团中的Eric Dolphy、Roswell Rudd，及Ornette Coleman、Pat Metheny、Gary Burton、Miles Davis等乐手，吸取他们独奏时特殊的分节法。而钢琴手中，影响Giovanni Mirabass作曲及弹奏风格的，也呈现相当大的不同，包括Art Tatum、Bud Powell、Bill Evans、Herbie Hancock、Lennie Tristano、Don Pullen、Jackie Byard、Keith Jarrett、Ran Blake、Paul Bley，而有意大利Bill Evans 之称的Enrico Pieranunzi及资深的Franco D"Andrea也是他欣赏的乐手。 <br/> <br/>Giovanni Mirabassi认为「爵士乐」就是一种自己「喜欢的音乐」类型，是种「可以让我表达与有自由空间的音乐」。从习乐背景来看，混融古典与现代音乐的风格，有显明且好听的旋律，是Giovanni Mirabassi的最大特色。而他自己也承认作曲时相当注重旋律，认为在此之上进行即兴与推陈，反而更有意思。 Giovanni Mirabassi至今发行过四张专辑，其中《Architectures》（1998）及《dal vivo!》（2001）是标准「钢琴－贝斯－鼓」的三重奏的编制；而《Avanti !》（2001）是张独奏专辑，另外日前的新作《Air》（2003），则是「钢琴－小喇叭－伸缩喇叭」的编制；此外，更早之前在九七年时， Giovanni曾回到意大利，参与在当地颇富盛名的管乐手、同时也是兄长GABRIELE MIRABASSI专辑《Cambaluc》的录制，同时也是他迄今参与专辑中编制最庞大的一张专辑。 这四张专辑都是在SKETCH旗下发行的，Giovanni Mirabassi当初是在Daniel Humair的建议下，将他自行录制的专辑《Architectures》DEMO带寄给Philippe Ghielmetti，隔天Philippe就找他来，只说了「我签」，然后双方合作至今。从发行张数来看，Giovanni可说是Philippe最倚重的SKETCH「一哥」。Giovanni说过，Philippe在扮演制作人角色时给的建议，都很让人信服，「他相当了解他签下的乐手的特质」！ <br/> <br/>Giovanni Mirabassi偏好小编制的合作，他认为三重奏可以给予最大的自由及互补性。在他个人首张专辑《Architectures》中的九首曲子，听来都有一贯欧洲年轻乐手独到的融合古典、新世纪及爵士的技巧，在快意、舒畅之外，还能听见细腻与浪漫。第一首曲子一开始Giovanni就展现来自意大利的热情，与鼓手、贝斯手一起打造出有力量的旋律，之后就由Giovanni推陈出其娴熟的好美旋律，让听者马上被牵动，而贝斯手Daniele Mencarelli接替的拉弦，则营造出不同风情，短短的四分多钟的曲子，呈现出丰厚的层次。  <br/> <br/> <br/>