Gabriele Mirabassi

{{Short description|Italian jazz clarinetist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist  | name = Gabriele Mirabassi | image = Gabriele Mirabassi-25.jpg | caption =Gabriele Mirabassi at the TFF Rudolstadt in 2013 | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place =Perugia, Italy | genre = Jazz, classical | occupation = Musician | instrument = Clarinet | years_active =1980s–present | label = Egea | associated_acts = }}

'''Gabriele Mirabassi''' is an Italian jazz clarinetist.

==Career== thumb|right|Gabriele Mirabassi in studio di registrazione, February 2015)

He was born in Perugia and is a graduate of the Morlacchi Conservatory.<ref name="Huey">{{cite web |last1=Huey |first1=Steve |title=Gabriele Mirabassi |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gabriele-mirabassi-mn0000745718/biography |website=AllMusic |accessdate=14 April 2020}}</ref> His teacher told him avoid playing jazz because it would damage his technique, so at home he learned jazz on the piano, playing along to his father's records.<ref name="DB">{{cite magazine |last=Panken |first=Ted |date=January 2014 |title=Gabriele Mirabassi: Dancing Clarinetist|magazine=DownBeat |volume=81 |issue=1 |page=25=}}</ref> In his teens he performed locally on piano.<ref name="DB" /> He has been a member of the Rabih Abou-Khalil group.<ref name="Huey" /> In 2013, he performed with harpist Edmar Castañeda at festivals in France and at a choro event in Brazil.

== Discography == * ''Fiabe'' (Egea, 1995) * ''Cambaluc'' (Egea, 1997) * ''Velho Retrato'' (Egea, 1999) * ''Lo Stortino'' (Egea, 2000) * ''Luna Park'' (Egea, 2000) * ''1–0 (Una a Zero)'' (Egea, 2001) * ''Fuori le Mura'', (Egea, 2003) * ''Graffiando Vento'' (Dunya, 2007) * ''Canto di Ebano'' (Egea, 2008) * ''Chamber Songs'' (CAM Jazz, 2019)

'''With Rabih Abou-Khalil''' * ''The Cactus of Knowledge'' (Enja, 2001) * ''Morton's Foot'' (Enja, 2003)

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