Charlie Mariano
Encyclopedia
Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz
alto saxophonist
. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne
, Germany
.
immigrants.
Besides his work and recordings with acclaimed Jazz
musicians, he was best known for his use of a traditional, world's loudest India
n wind instrument
called Nadaswaram
which is similar to Shehnai
, another North Indian, hardwood
wind instrument.
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.
Mariano moved to Europe
in the 1970s and settled eventually in Köln, Germany
with his painter
wife Dorothee Zippel where he died in his sleep on June 16, 2009.
Mariano had 6 daughters, including soul/jazz singer Monday Michiru
from his marriage with Toshiko Akiyoshi, 6 grandchildren and 2 great granddaughters.
With George Gruntz
With Chico Hamilton
With Dieter Ilg
With André Jaume
With Elvin Jones
With Theo Jörgensmann
With Charles Mingus
With Pork Pie
With Alex Riel
With Joanna Rimmer
With Supersister
With Edward Vesala
With Eberhard Weber
s' Colours
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
alto saxophonist
Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Biography
Mariano was the son of ItalianItalian people
The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...
immigrants.
Besides his work and recordings with acclaimed Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
musicians, he was best known for his use of a traditional, world's loudest India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n wind instrument
Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator , in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of...
called Nadaswaram
Nadaswaram
The nadaswaram, also spelt nadhaswaram, and also called nagaswaram , is one of the most popular classical musical instruments in the South Indian culture and the world's loudest non-brass acoustic instrument...
which is similar to Shehnai
Shehnai
The shehnai, shahnai, shenai or mangal vadya, is an aerophonic instrument, a double reed conical oboe, common in North India, West India and Pakistan, made out of wood, with a metal flare bell at the end...
, another North Indian, hardwood
Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees . It may also be used for those trees themselves: these are usually broad-leaved; in temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen.Hardwood contrasts with softwood...
wind instrument.
He played with one of the Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton
Stanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
big bands, Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi
is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...
(his then wife,) Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
, Eberhard Weber
Eberhard Weber
Eberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing...
, the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble
United Jazz and Rock Ensemble
350px|right|United Jazz + Rock Ensemble Farewell Tour 2002The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble developed from a group of jazz musicians that was formed for a 1974 to 1975 television show of Süddeutscher Rundfunk...
, Embryo
Embryo (band)
Embryo is a musical collective from Munich which has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid-1950s in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10...
and numerous other notable bands and musicians.
Mariano moved to Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
in the 1970s and settled eventually in Köln, Germany
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
with his painter
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
wife Dorothee Zippel where he died in his sleep on June 16, 2009.
Mariano had 6 daughters, including soul/jazz singer Monday Michiru
Monday Michiru
Monday Michiru Sipiagin is a Japanese American actress, singer, and songwriter whose music encompasses and fuses a wide variety of genres including jazz, dance, pop, and soul...
from his marriage with Toshiko Akiyoshi, 6 grandchildren and 2 great granddaughters.
As leader or co-leader
- Charlie Mariano Octet 1949
- Charlie Mariano : Boston All Stars 1951
- Charlie Mariano Quartet 1955
- The Toshiko - Mariano QuartetThe Toshiko - Mariano QuartetThe jazz album The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi on piano and Charlie Mariano on alto saxophone was recorded in New York in 1960 and released on the Candid label...
, 1961 - Charlie Mariano : Folk Soul 1967
- Sadao WatanabeSadao Watanabe (musician)is an influential Japanese jazz musician who plays the alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone and flute. He is known for his Bossa Nova recordings, although his work encompasses a large range of styles with collaborations from musicians all over the world. Sadao first began learning music at the age...
& Charlie Mariano: Iberian Waltz (Denon, 1967) - Charlie Mariano : Mirror 1971
- Charlie Mariano : Reflections 1974
- Charlie Mariano : Helen 12 Trees 1976
- Philip CatherinePhilip CatherinePhilip Catherine is a Belgian jazz guitarist.-Biography:He was born in London from an English mother and Belgian father....
- Charlie Mariano - Jasper van't Hof: Sleep My Love 1979 - Charlie Mariano & Karnataka College of PercussionKarnataka College of PercussionThe Karnataka College of Percussion is a music school in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, which is dedicated to the teaching of the Carnatic percussion and vocal music of South India. It was founded in approximately 1964 by the mridangam player T. A. S...
: JyothiJyothi (album)Jyothi is an album by American jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano and The Karnataka College of Percussion featuring R. A. Ramamani recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1983) - Shigihara - Mariano - Wells - Küttner: Tears of Sound 1984
- Charlie Mariano Group: Plum Island 1985
- André Jaume & Charlie Mariano: Abbaye de l´epau 1990
- Charlie Mariano - Jasper van't Hof: Innuendo 1992
- Charlie Mariano & Friends: Seventy 1993
- Nassim, 1997
- Charlie Mariano : Bangalore, 1998
- Jasper van't Hof, Charlie Mariano, Steve SwallowSteve SwallowSteve Swallow is a jazz double bass and bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.One of the leading bassists in jazz, Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton and Carla Bley...
: Brutto Tempo 2001 - Sadao WatanabeSadao Watanabe (musician)is an influential Japanese jazz musician who plays the alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone and flute. He is known for his Bossa Nova recordings, although his work encompasses a large range of styles with collaborations from musicians all over the world. Sadao first began learning music at the age...
& Charlie Mariano : Sadao & Charlie Again 2006 - Charlie Mariano with Philip Catherine and Jasper van't Hof: The Great Concert - Stuttgart 2008
- Charlie Mariano / Benjamin Koppel "Blues & Ballads" - Copenhagen 2009, Cowbell Music
- Charlie Mariano/John Williams(p)/Max Bennett(b)/Mel Lewis(d): 'Alto Sax for Young Moderns'(date unknown)
- Charlie Mariano: 'Plays' (personnel & date unknown)
As sideman
With EmbryoEmbryo (band)
Embryo is a musical collective from Munich which has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid-1950s in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10...
- We Keep On, 1973
With George Gruntz
George Gruntz
George Gruntz is a Swiss jazz pianist, organist, harpsichordist, keyboardist and composer most noteworthy for his work with artists such as Phil Woods, Roland Kirk, Don Cherry, Chet Baker, Art Farmer, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin and Mel Lewis.From 1972 to 1994 he served as artistic director for...
- TheatreTheatre (album)Theatre is an album by Swiss pianist, composer, and arranger George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band '83 recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1983)
With Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton , is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.-Early life through 1960s:Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California. He had a fast-track musical education in a band with Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso...
- The Further Adventures of El ChicoThe Further Adventures of El ChicoThe Further Adventures of El Chico is an album by American jazz drummer Chico Hamilton featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.-Reception:...
(Impulse!, 1966)
With Dieter Ilg
- Due, 2005
With André Jaume
- Abbaye et Lépau, 1990
With Elvin Jones
Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
- Dear John C.Dear John C.Dear John C. is an album by American jazz drummer Elvin Jones featuring performances recorded in 1965 for the Impulse! label. The "John C." mentioned in the title is John Coltrane. The album was also released on SACD.-Reception:...
(Impulse!, 1965)
With Theo Jörgensmann
Theo Jörgensmann
Theodor Franz Jörgensmann is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975.-Activities:...
- Fellowship, 2005
With Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
- The Black Saint and the Sinner LadyThe Black Saint and the Sinner Lady-Personnel:Musicians*Charles Mingus – bass, piano, composer*Jerome Richardson – soprano and baritone saxophone, flute*Charlie Mariano – alto saxophone*Dick Hafer – tenor saxophone, flute*Rolf Ericson – trumpet...
(Impulse! 1963) - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus MingusMingus Mingus Mingus Mingus MingusMingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is a 1963 album by jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus.- Historical Context :...
(Impulse!, 1963)
With Pork Pie
- Transitory, 1974
With Alex Riel
Alex Riel
Alex Riel, , is a Danish jazz and rock drummer. His first group Alex Riel/Palle Mikkelborg Quintet won Montreux Grand Prix Award at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968 and it was published in Billboards June 1968 edition.-Biography:Riel has recorded with, among others, Kenny Drew, Kenny Werner, Bob...
- Live at Stars, 2008
With Joanna Rimmer
- Dedicated to..... Just Me! (Sam Productions, 2008)
With Supersister
- Iskander, 1973
With Edward Vesala
Edward Vesala
Edward Vesala , born Martti Vesala, was a Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer....
- Nan MadolNan Madol (album)Nan Madol is an album by Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer Edward Vesala originally released on the JAPO label in 1974 and re-released on the ECM label in 1976.-Reception:...
(JAPO, 1974)
With Eberhard Weber
Eberhard Weber
Eberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing...
s' Colours
- Yellow FieldsYellow FieldsYellow Fields is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1975 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.-Track listing:# "Touch" - 5:02# "Sand-Glass" - 15:34...
(ECM, 1975) - Silent FeetSilent FeetSilent Feet is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1977 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Emphasizing long tones, contrasting sound with silence.....
(ECM, 1978) - Little MovementsLittle MovementsLittle Movements is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1980 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
(ECM, 1980)
External links
- Charlie Mariano Tribute
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