The Italian pianist who lives in Paris, Giovanni Mirabassi and French jazz vocalist Melanie Dahan form one of the most attractive European jazz duos of the moment.
Jazz San Javier has gathered "a French night" including concert accordionist Marc Berthoumieux with his quartet.
Mirabassi AC artist, discography and direct, playing with his trio, with whom he gave a special concert on a previous visit to Jazz San Javier, and without accompaniment, sufficient unto itself to thrill audiences with sensitivity transmitting each note this musician who has played with Chet Baker, and having as reference Enrico Pieranunzi, Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson, among others.
In San Javier Jazz will be playing the first part of the concert piano solo, without accompaniment, before the French singer, Melanie Dahan has ruled in favor of those who saw it as the great hope of French vocal jazz to join.
Melanie Dahan has a great personal and professional tune with Giovanni Mirabassi great friend whom he met early in his career and who has recorded two albums "La Princesse et Les Croque-Notes" (2008) and "Latine" (2011) .
Dahan combines its roots from the French chanson, jazz, which was delivered after listening to Ella Fitzgerald, and his love of bossa nova, listening at home as a child.
The review has highlighted its ability to bind the old French songs with modern music, making issues Aznavour, Jacques Brel and Leo Ferre in contemporary jazz standards.
The pianist Giovanni Mirabassi be displayed in different facets, and after playing without accompaniment in the first part of the night will do as a guest artist in the quartet of accordion, piano, bass and drums, the French accordionist and composer, Marc Berthoumieux, at a concert and an evening designed especially for Jazz San Javier.
The concert Marc Berthoumieux include songs from his latest album "In Other Words", whose recording had Mirabassi and André Ceccarelli, with adaptations of themes Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Elton John and Sting, which ranks among his musical influences with Pat Metheny, Michel Petrucciani, and Astor Piazzola, among others.
Marc Berthoumieux, which as Richard Galliano and Ludovic Beier, leads the jazz musette with great elegance, has always been linked to the Parisian jazz scene.
He has worked with artists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Didier Lockwood, among others.
He has also composed for artists such as Claude Nougaro, French jazz singer, and Richard Bona, as well as film soundtracks as "Une Belle Affaire" by Serge Meynard.
In the San Javier Jazz concert, with Marc Berthoumieux, Mirabassi accordion and piano, will perform Vernevery Laurent on bass, and Lukmil Perez on drums.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier