Charlie Mariano
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Mariano at a 2003 concert
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Background information | |
Birth name | Carmine Ugo Mariano |
Born | Boston, Massachusetts |
November 12, 1923
Origin | United States |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Köln, Germany |
Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion, world music |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
Instruments | Alto saxophone, Nadaswaram |
Years active | 1945–2009 |
Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009[1]) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.
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Biography
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mariano was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Italian immigrants, Giovanni Mariano and Maria Di Gironimo of Fallo, Italy. He grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, enlisting in the Army Air Corps after high school, during WWII. After his service in the Army Mariano attended what was then known as Schlesinger House of Music, now Berklee College of Music. He was among the faculty at Berklee from 1965 to 1971. Mariano moved to Europe in 1971, settling eventually in Köln (Cologne), Germany, with his third wife, Dorothee Zippel.
He played with one of the Stan Kenton big bands, Toshiko Akiyoshi (his then wife), Charles Mingus, Eberhard Weber, the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Embryo and numerous other notable bands and musicians.
He was known for his use of the nadaswaram, a classical wind instrument from Tamil Nadu.[2]
Mariano had six daughters, including four with his first wife, and musician Monday Michiru with his second wife. He had six grandchildren and two great-granddaughters.
He died of cancer on June 16, 2009.[citation needed]
Discography
As leader
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- 1949: Octet
- 1951: Boston All Stars
- 1955: Quartet
- 1956: Alto Sax For Young Moderns (Bethlehem bcp 25)
- 1956: Plays (Bethlehem Rec.)
- 1961: The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet
- 1967: Folk Soul
- 1967: Iberian Waltz (Denon)
- 1971: Mirror
- 1971: Blue Stone (with Chris Hinze)
- 1974: Reflections (Catalyst Records)
- 1974: Cascade
- 1976: Helen 12 Trees
- 1979: Sleep My Love
- 1979: Crystal Bells
- 1980: Life (with Embryo & The Karnataka College of Percussion)
- 1983: Jyothi (ECM, with Karnataka College of Percussion)
- 1984: Tears of Sound
- 1985: Plum Island
- 1990: Abbaye de l'epau
- 1991: Autumn Dreams (with Mal Waldron Trio)
- 1992: Innuendo (with Jasper van't Hof)
- 1993: Seventy
- 1996: Summertime in Venice
- 1997: Nassim
- 1998: Bangalore
- 1998: Savannah Samurai
- 2000: Not Quite A Ballad (with Würzburg Philharmonic)
- 2001: Brutto Tempo with Jasper van't Hof, Steve Swallow
- 2002: Portrait of France
- 2002: Frontier Traffic (with Ali Haurand, Daniel Humair)
- 2003: Deep in a Dream
- 2004: Not Quite A Ballad
- 2005: Tango Para Charlie
- 2005: When The Sun Comes Out
- 2006: Sadao & Charlie Again
- 2007: The Tamarind Tree
- 2008: The Great Concert – Stuttgart with Philip Catherine and Jasper van't Hof
- 2009: Blues & Ballads (with Benjamin Koppel, Copenhagen, Cowbell Music)
As sideman
With Chet Baker and Bud Shank
With Embryo
With Maynard Ferguson
With George Gruntz
With Chico Hamilton
With Dieter Ilg
With André Jaume
With Elvin Jones
With Theo Jörgensmann
With Shelly Manne
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With Charles Mingus
With the Modern Jazz Quartet
With Pork Pie
With Alex Riel
With Joanna Rimmer
With Supersister
With Edward Vesala
With Eberhard Webers' Colours
With Stan Kenton
With Pierre Moerlens' Gong Leave it open(Arista, 1981)
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See also
References
External links
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- American expatriates in Germany
- American jazz alto saxophonists
- American oboists
- 1923 births
- Musicians from Boston, Massachusetts
- 2009 deaths
- Cancer deaths in Germany
- ECM Records artists
- Timeless Records artists
- Enja Records artists
- United Jazz + Rock Ensemble members
- 20th-century American musicians