Projects

  • Bass Solo

    Giovanni Maier, bass solo

    discographic releases:

    “Polaroid” (1998 – Nota CD 2.60);

    “Exposure” (2000 – Nota CD 3.22);

    “Domino 02” (2001 – Palomar records 02);

    “The face of the bass – electric bass solo” (2003 – Palomar records 05);

    “Me, Myself & Monk” (2009 – Palomar Records 017);

    “Pages” (2011 – palomar records 37);

    “Live at Brda Contemporary” (2015 – palomar records 46);

    “Tramis” (2016 – palomar records 51);

    “Blu Bamb” (2019 – Palomar records 57)

  • Giovanni Maier quintet

    Francesco Ivone, trumpet
    Flavio Brumat, tenor and alto sax, flute
    Giancarlo Schiaffini, trombone
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Urban Kušar, drums

    discographic releases:

    Giovanni Maier quintet: “FourTimesEight Suite” (2018, Associazione Nuovo Corso)

  • Pacorig / Maier / Rabbia trio

    Giorgio Pacorig, piano
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Michele Rabbia, percussions and electronics

    discographic releases:

    Giorgio Pacorig, Giovanni Maier, Michele Rabbia: “Floating Lines” (2017 – CAM Jazz  CAMJ7921-2)

  • Giovanni Maier / Giancarlo Schiaffini duo

    Giancarlo Schiaffini, trombone
    Giovanni Maier, double bass

    discographic releases:

    “Cruciverba” (2013 – palomar records 41)

  • Giovanni Maier / Daniele Cavallanti duo

    Daniele Cavallanti, tenor sax
    Giovanni Maier, double bass

    discographic releases:

    “Blues in the Suq” (2013 – palomar records 40)

    “Our standards” (2017 – Palomar records 53 – 2 CD set)

  • Giovanni Maier / Massimo De Mattia duo

    Massimo De Mattia, flutes
    Giovanni Maier, double bass

    discographic releases:

    “Poésie pour Pasolini” (1993 – Splasch H 405-2)

    “Double Layer” (2015 – palomar records 44)

    “Naonis Live” (2019 – palomar records 61)

  • Giovanni Maier / Giorgio Pacorig duo

    Giorgio Pacorig, piano
    Giovanni Maier, double bass

    discographic releases:

    Češnje” (2017 – Klopotec IZK CD 068)

    “Incipit” (2017 – Palomar records 54)

  • Giovanni Maier / Alessandro Mansutti duo

    Alessandro Mansutti, drums and percussions
    Giovanni Maier, double bass

    discographic releases:

    Games, tales and planets” (2019 – palomar records 59)

  • Giovanni Maier / Flavio Zanuttini duo

    Flavio Zanuttini, trumpet
    Giovanni Maier, double bass

    discographic releases:

    Little Nothing” (2020 – bandcamp)

  • Trio Benessere

    Filippo Orefice, tenor sax and clarinet
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Alessandro Mansutti, drums

    discographic releases:

    “Trio Benessere” (2015 – palomar records 47 – 2 cd set)

  • OMBAK

    Cene Resnik, tenor and soprano sax
    Giovanni Maier, cello
    Stefano Giust, drums and cymbals

    discographic releases:

    “Through eons to now” (2020 – setola di maiale SM4070)

  • Wood Ensemble

    Mimo Cogliandro, bass clarinet
    Giovanni Maier, cello
    Matjaž Bajc, double bass

    discographic releases:

    “Live at Knulp” (2011 – palomar records 35)

  • TRIIIS

    Giovanni Maier, cello
    Matjaž Bajc, double bass
    Žiga Ipavec, percussions

    discographic releases:

    TRIIIS – “Early Abstractions” (2019 – palomar records 60)

  • Kača, Sraka in Lev quintet

    Gabriele Cancelli, cornet
    Paolo Pascolo, flute
    Mimo Cogliandro, bass clarinet
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Marko Lasič, drums and percussion

    discographic releases:

    “The Labour Suite” (2016 – Associazione Nuovo Corso)

  • Kača, Sraka in Lev trio

    Paolo Pascolo, flute
    Mimo Cogliandro, soprano sax
    Giovanni Maier, cello

    discographic releases:

    “Kaca, Sraka in Lev” (2010 – Palomar records 29)

  • Jaz, Drevo

    Cene Resnik, tenor sax
    Giovanni Maier, cello
    Boris Janje, double bass

    discographic releases:

    “Cycles and Lullabies” (2019 – Palomar records 56)

  • Maier / Morpurgo / Ricci trio

    Riccardo Morpurgo, piano
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Pietro Ricci, drums

    discographic releases:

    “Mesmer” (2019 – Palomar records 58)

  • TILT

    Giovanni Maier, conduction
    Massimo De Mattia, flutes
    Luigi Vitale, vibraphone and marimba

    Angelica Groppi, viola
    Rachele Castellano, viola
    Giovanni Dalle Aste, viola
    Simone Lanzi, double bass
    Anna Talbot, harp
    Iva Bobanović, classical guitar
    Piercarlo Favro, classical guitar

    discographic releases:

    “TILT – Improvised Concerto for flute and chamber orchestra” (2020 – Artesuono art 200)

  • Maier / Cogliandro duo

    Mimo Cogliandro, bass clarinet
    Giovanni Maier, double bass

  • Maier / Brumat duo

    Flavio Brumat, tenor and alto sax, flute
    Giovanni Maier, cello

  • Maier / Kušar duo

    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Urban Kušar, drums

  • mingus low_res

    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Matteo Alfonso, piano

  • Maier / Scacco duo

    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Efrem Scacco, guitar

  • Le Città Invisibili

    Giulio Morgan, narration (based on Italo Calvino “Le Città Invisibili”)
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Alessandro Mansutti, drums

  • Bizarre

    Francesco De Luisa, piano
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Jacopo Zanette, drums

  • Elasticmen

    Mimo Cogliandro, tenor sax
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Marko Lasič, drums

  • මුmudu

    Paolo Bernetti, trumpet
    Giovanni Maier, double bass
    Mattia Piani, drums and electronics

  • Atlanti

    Clarissa Durizzotto, clarinet
    Giovanni Maier, cello and double bass
    Roberto Fabrizio, guitar