Charlie Mariano

Charlie Mariano
Charlie Mariano
	File:Charlie Mariano.JPG Mariano at a 2003 concert
Background information
Birth name	Carmine Ugo Mariano
Born	November 12, 1923; Boston, Massachusetts
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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Mariano performing with Pork Pie, c. 1976

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

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)