Giovanni Mirabassi, Sarah Lancman – Intermezzo (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Giovanni Mirabassi, Sarah Lancman – Intermezzo (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:01 minutes | 356 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz Eleven

In 2018, Sarah Lancman released À Contretemps, a beautiful album recorded with Giovanni Mirabassi, one of the most talented pianists of his generation. After Dark in 2014 and Inspiring Love in 2016, the Quincy Jones-endorsed singer once again managed − without abusing any stylistic effect − to magnify the melodies she was performing. A year later, Lancman once again joined forces with Mirabassi for a tribute to Italian music, covering and adapting eternal themes such as Senza Fine, Sabato Italiano, Il Poeta, Estate, Vedrai Vedrai and Ach, Che Sera, Che Sera. Saxophonist Olivier Bogé lends them a hand on three tracks. Refined and inspired, Intermezzo is a beautiful way to rediscover the Italian repertoire. Adorned with jazzy colours, these covers take on the form of instant classics.  – Clotilde Maréchal

(more…)

Read more

Giovanni Mirabassi – Adelante (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Giovanni Mirabassi – Adelante (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:33 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Discograph

Is Giovanni Mirabassi’s performance music, or an expression of revolt ? Simply both. And of course, the pianist renders these tunes with all his sensitivity and his brilliant technique. He obviously believes that the music speaks for itself. In this album, Giovanni Mirabassi performs as a soloist but three special guests join him in his Cuban recording sessions on the tune Yo me quedo, all members of the historical Ikarere (a Cuban group founded by Chucho Valdés), and singer Angela Elvira Pérez, on the tune Hasta Siempre, in a more destructured version than the one we are used to hearing. Most tunes naturally sound very familiar to us : The Partisan, immortalized by Leonard Cohen,… Lili Marleen, or the very famous Gracias a la vida. Some of the tunes are even closer to a French audience : Le déserteur, by Boris Vian, Libertango, by Piazzolla… Graine d’ananar by Léo Ferré, Le temps du muguet, composed by Francis Lemarque.

(more…)

Read more
%d bloggers like this: