Giovanni Guidi

Giovanni Guidi is an Italian jazz pianist who is well-known on the European scene as a bandleader and a frequent sideman for trumpeter Enrico Rava. As a soloist and an accompanist, his touch is subtle but technically deft, whether laying out angular solos (based on everything from slow, rubato interludes to fleet, high-register, aria-styled flights of fancy) to hard-comping, swinging grooves. His 2011 date We Don't Live Here Anymore on Italy's Cam label illustrated his canny, kaleidoscopic compositional style. On 2015's This Is the Day, with his multinational trio featuring Ne...