Also appreciated in the entertainment world, he has often played with Renzo Arbore.
He carries out an intense concert activity all over the world and is produced by the Japanese label Albore records and by the most important and active record labels in the world of jazz.
It is impossible to list, among the more than three thousand concerts, all the festivals and reviews that have seen him as a protagonist.
The discography of him is conspicuous.
as a leader:
- “Apaturia” 1995
- “We’ll be together again” 2002
- “Totò Jazz” 2003
- “My Love and I” 2004
- “MISSION Formosa” 2015
- “Just You Just Me” 2015
- “Kind of True” ( Mission Formosa) 2016
- “Ciao…..Amore” 2018
- “Atomic Bass” 2020
- “I Will touch you” 2021
- “The Nine Lives of the Soul”
With the record "Apaturia", Giuseppe Bassi is present in the "Penguin" guide written and edited by Richard Cook and Brian Morton who rated the recording as "excellent and original in the international jazz scene," the highest artistic evaluation.
As a sideman, he figures in:
- “JAZZ AT PRAGUE CASTLE” (2009) con il quartetto di LEW Tabackin,
- “REMEMBERING SHELLY”( 2010) in due volumi con Roberto Gatto Quintet,
- “STREET JAZZ UNIT” (1997) con il gruppo omonimo
- “FAST FLIGHT” (2001)disco di debutto di Fabrizio Bosso,
- “LOOK OUT” (2000)con Rosario Giuliani, Fabrizio Bosso, Gianluca Petrella ..,
- “Up Up with Jazz Convention” (1998) con Stefano Bollani.
- “You are my everything” (2003) con Gianni Basso
- "SEVEN" (2012) with an exceptional group, composed of: Enrico Pieranunzi on piano, Roberto Gatto on drums, Franco Piana flugelhorn, DINO PIANA trombone, Fabrizio Bosso on trumpet, Max Ionata on sax, Luca Manutza piano.
- “Sound Briefing” (2012) Il nuovo album di Jazz Convention
- “inspiration Live” (2014) quartetto Ionata Max
- “La banda”( 2015), Francesco Cafiso sextet
- ” Nu Joy” ( 2012) , Gegè Telesforo Band
- ” Fun Slow Ride” ( 2016) Gegè Telesforo
Bassi taught jazz bass in the academic year 2004-2005 at the Conservatory of Cosenza.
Ad ottobre 2005 si trasferisce a NEW YORK, entrando a far parte di alcuni tra I gruppi più importanti del panorama jazzistico (Lew Tabackin, Joe Magnarelli, Steve Davis, Helen Sung, John di Martino, Peggy Stern, Rashed Ali).
devote himself totally to concert activity and today he is one of the best Italian double bass players in the world, the only one requested for international tours by some of the greatest representatives of world jazz.
Lew Tabackin calls him with him on tours and concerts in the United States and Europe: Recently the Lew Tabackin trio with bass on double bass and Gatto on drums played at the London jazz festival from 20 to 23 November 2016.
For the CONCERT DELLA MEMORIA entitled "Colorful Evening", held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, with direct coverage on Rai, on January 26, 2017, and in Lugano on April 26, 2018, BASSI took care of the musical direction, all the choice of the repertoire and the arrangements of music never performed before, composed by Kurt Sonnenfeld, pianist, musician, composer, prisoner in the Ferramonti concentration camp in Calabria.
In October 2017, Bassi toured Taiwan for the presentation of “Kind of true”, playing at the prestigious Taichung Jazz festival in front of an audience of 60,000 people.
At the same time he held a jazz master at TCH Music in Taipei.
Creator of the “ATOMIC BASS” project, he carries out concerts in Japan, Italy and all over the world.
Nel 2021 Bassi ha prodotto, con Motonokai e con Antonio Moscatello, il film per la regia di Alessandro Trapani, girato nei pressi della Centrale Atomica di Fukushima, di cui è protagonista, dal titolo “Yomigaeru- Rivivere” .
Attualmente suona nei progetti della famosissima attrice/cantante Ute Lemper ed è leader di una nuova band Soul-Funk con la presenza della cantante americana Joanna Teters.
Nel 2024 inizia la collaborazione con il pianista svedese Daniel Karlsson, con cui costituisce un nuovo quintetto che registra, nell’isola di Runmaro, un disco di prossima pubblicazione.
Co-founder of the new label called Doppio Sugo production.