Welcome to Giovanni Mirabassi’s website. Here you can find information about his biography, his press kit, his current activities in France and abroad, you can discover his cds and listen to extracts, and also discover his other projects, in particular those connected with la chanson française, buy scores of his compositions. You will also have access to useful links addressed to the public as well as to professionals. At last you can also contact us thanks to the contact section. Enjoy the surfing! "Giovanni Mirabassi... The track Place de la mairie  issued from the record Architectures, in 1998, was a real discovery.   It is music that touches to the essential: to the drama of existence, by a touch of melancholy, and to the passion of life by Giovanni Mirabassi’s powerful engagement in the improvisations on the revolutionary songs of Avanti! in 2000.   It is a way of phrasing which is rich in emotions, and in which he integrates the audience,  by creating a particular link with it. He says himself "the audience is an integrating part in my musical research... It is a big part of the risk-taking... and the goal of my life... there is an  addiction to the magic of the concert, when everybody thrills in perfect unison". (La Base, November 2002)   It is a very personal style which runs through the original compositions, beauty and elegance of the melodic lines, never ending sensitivity of a contrasted playing, gentle or wild... Something of the "Italian soul" as we commonly say "the Slavic soul". Moreover these two types of romanticism, Italian and Polish, had to meet one day on the record Mirabassi & Jagodzinski Trio (2002), where the "introduction to jazz" of Jagodzinski's accordion brings warm unissued colours to all the interpretations.   It is an international meeting, with Flavio Boltro et Glenn Ferris around the (((Air))) project, in 2003, where piano, trumpet and trombone achieve a single, subtle and perfect blend.   Prima o Poi is another great encounter,  between Flavio Boltro, Louis Moutin and Gildas Boclé...  Il bandolero stanco  and  Symphomaniax  are already engraved in our memories. Let's notice specially on this album, the lyricism and energy of very "jazz" solos (Tôt ou tard, Symphomaniax, Minor voyage)   Giovanni Mirabassi,  a magician, is big news in the world of jazz. (Annie Staricky, November 2005)   ...and the story continues to unfold with the forming of the Trio Mirabassi, Renzi, Parker (Gianluca Renzi on the bass, and Leon Parker on the drums). The trio’s musical power was  confirmed straight away with their first album Terra Furiosa (February 2008), then Out of Track (March 2009).The three musicians achieve an astounding musical complicity in the rhythm  and sound they produce, and the very corporeal way in which they perform jazz. In a most peculiar way, the internal powerful energy they create during concerts reaches out to the enthusiastic audience.   They also excel in the art of genre contrast : first with their swinging version of the great standards -Alone Together, Impressions (Coltrane) ; second, a note of nostalgia with Alfonsina y el mar (Ramírez), Vuelvo al Sur (Piazzolla) ; then the committed songs so dear to Giovanni Mirabassi and taken again from Avanti ! and especially the song the Chant des Partisans, « which suggests the initial presence of fairy fingers swinging above the Vercors Maquis » (Christian Larrède from the Inrockuptibles), is a piece which Giovanni never fails to play at concerts and always at the right moment.   Two landmark events celebrated Giovanni Mirabassi's ten years of musical career this year :  an exceptional concert given  at the New Morning  in October 2009 on this particular occasion, and another concert performed in trio at l' Athénée on the release of his latest album Out of Track !   ...The adventure is going on for the trio… with the recording of their next album live, in March 2010... (A.S, August 2009)