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Giorgi Mikadze

Born: May 20, 1989

Giorgi Mikadze is a renowned Georgian pianist, composer, and Yamaha artist. As a multi-genre musician and producer, he has gained fame by performing with “King of Chinese Pop” Wang Leehom on his "Descendants of the Dragon" world tour. What's more, Giorgi has been recognized for creating a number of acclaimed projects such as VOISA, Georgian Overtones, and Georgian MicrojamZ, and for introducing his projects to larger audiences, along with his music groups and distinguished musicians.

Noted for his supreme technical skills as a pianist and composer, Giorgi has regularly performed and toured with a number of renowned orchestras, such as the internationally acclaimed Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra. He has also composed for plays at the Rustaveli National Theatre, served as a musical director for Berklee’s tribute to Quincy Jones, and directed Jonathan Antoine's North American concert tour. Giorgi has performed with renowned artists from a vast assortment of musical genres, including Wang Leehom, Jack DeJohnette, Roy Hargrove, Dave Liebman, Lee Ritenour, Meshell Ndegeocello, Antonio Sanchez, Chris Potter, Matt Garrison, Nils Landgren, Patti Austin, Jojo Mayer, David Fiuczynski, Brett Dennen, Siedah Garrett, Melwin Lee Davis, Tom Kennedy, Phil Wilson and many more. Throughout his career, Giorgi has won numerous prestigious classical piano competitions, jazz fellowship awards, full scholarship at Berklee College of Music, and presidential scholarship at Manhattan School of Music.

Face to Face

By Giorgi Mikadze

Label: Peewee!
Released: 2024
Track listing: Satchidao; Not Easy To Repeat; Dolls Are Laughing; Same Garden; The Moon Over Mtatsminda; Nana; After The Tale; A Magic Egg; To Nodar; Wind Takes It Anyway.

Giorgi Mikadze Trio: Same Garden

by John Chacona
February 22, 2024

Your assignment for today is to name the composer of “Same Garden" (no fair looking!). Could it be a Jerome Kern deep cut? A rarity by Cole Porter? Wait! Victor Young, right? All good guesses for this tuneful, 32-bar AABA line, but the prize goes to the sharp-eared listener who named Shota Milorava, a ...

Kenny Burrell, Joseph Daley, Sam Rivers & Rotem Sivan

by Joe Dimino
February 11, 2024

We kick off the 841st Episode of Neon Jazz with Israeli-born guitarist Rotem Sivan with his cover of “Mack the Knife." From there, we keep the jazz guitar theme going with the legendary Kenny Burrell then we get into a host of veterans releasing new material including Bill Anschell, Giorgi Mikadze and Joseph Daley. A superstar ...

Georgian Microjamz

By Giorgi Mikadze

Label: RareNoiseRecords
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Metivuri (Prelude) 2. Dumba Damba 3. Shedzakhili (Interlude) 4. Elesa 5. Mirangula (Interlude) 6. Moaning 7. Racha (Interlude) 8. Maglonia 9. Gelati (Interlude) 10. Kartlos Blues 11. Gurian Lullaby (Interlude) 12. Lazhghvash 13. Tseruli

Faune

By Raphaël Pannier

Label: French Paradox
Released: 2020
Track listing: Lonely Woman; Midtown Blues; Lullaby; Messiaen: Le Baiser de L'enfant Jesus; Intro to ESP; ESP; Outro to ESP; Ravel "Forlane"; Fauna; Capricho de Raphael; Monkey Puzzle Tree; Final: Drum Soli

Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Faune

by Dan Bilawsky
November 3, 2020

The debut from drummer Raphaël Pannier has no difficulty laying out references to modern modes of impressionism and the nature of wildlife implied in its title. Its opener --a ten-minute take on Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" that offers slinky melody, sophisticated coloring, intense upheaval, a bass soliloquy and a return to the shadowy theme--is but the ...

Black History Month Special Hour of Poetry & Jazz

by Maurice Hogue
March 11, 2020

The salute to Black History Month continues in this episode with an entire hour devoted to poetry and music, as well as more from Christian McBride's The Movement Revisited. New albums sampled are from New Orleans' trio Nutria, microtonal keyboardist Giorgi Mikadze from Georgia (the country of Georgia), trumpeter Susana Santos Silva and her band Impermanence, ...

Philipp Gerschlauer/David Fiuczynski: Mikrojazz!: Neue Expressionistische Musik

by Dan Bilawsky
September 5, 2017

If you've followed guitarist David Fiuczynski's work in recent years, then you should already know that he's continually intensifying his search for what exists in the spaces between the spaces. While Fuze has always registered as something of a non-conformist, he's now completely shed a layer of skin and left conventional Western musical tuning behind, evolving ...

2015: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 4, 2016

The year 2015 was a curious blend of ups and downs, with glimmers of optimism offset by its losses. Venues opened to great fanfare, but others closed for a variety of reasons. UNESCO's International Jazz Day became firmly entrenched as the exclamation point on Jazz Appreciation Month activities in April. Daily arts journalism took a hit ...