Giovanni Mazzarino, born on May 26, 1965, in Messina, Italy, is an Italian jazz pianist and bandleader. He began playing piano at age five and initially received classical training before shifting his focus to jazz. In the 1980s, he wrote arrangements for recording studios and studied orchestration at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. In the 1990s, Mazzarino collaborated with numerous Italian jazz musicians and was a member of the "Orchestra Jazz Siciliana" from 1990 to 1991. He released his first album under his own name, Silence, Please!, in 1991 under the Splas(c)h label. His subsequent albums include Thinking Miles (1994) and I Remember Miles (1997). Mazzarino has also collaborated with notable jazz figures such as Randy Brecker, Mark Murphy, Tom Harrell, Steve Swallow, Adam Nussbaum, and Fabrizio Bosso.
