Charlie Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an
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jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
alto saxophonistThe alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer in 1841 Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the tenor, is the most common size of saxophone...
. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in
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(
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).
He played with one of the
Stan KentonStanley Newcomb Kenton was a pianist who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator.- Early life :...
big bands,
Toshiko Akiyoshiis 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 MingusCharles Mingus, Jr. was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and pianist. He was also known for his activism against racial injustice....
,
Eberhard WeberEberhard 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 EnsembleThe United Jazz + Rock Ensemble developed from a group of jazz musicians that was formed for a 1974 to 1975 television show of Süddeutscher Rundfunk...
,
EmbryoEmbryo are considered one of the most important German Krautrock bands of the 1970s. The musical collective from Munich has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid fifties in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10.-Band...
and numerous other notable musicians. He also played the
nadaswaramThe nadaswaram is one of the most popular classical instruments of South India and the world's loudest non-brass acoustic instrument...
, a traditional oboe from
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.
Mariano moved to Europe in the 1970's and settled eventually in Köln (
CologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German 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...
), Germany with his painter wife, Dorothee Zippel.
Charlie Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
alto saxophonistThe alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by the Belgian instrument designer in 1841 Adolphe Sax. The alto, with the tenor, is the most common size of saxophone...
. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in
CologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German 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...
(
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
).
Biography
He played with one of the
Stan KentonStanley Newcomb Kenton was a pianist who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator.- Early life :...
big bands,
Toshiko Akiyoshiis 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 MingusCharles Mingus, Jr. was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and pianist. He was also known for his activism against racial injustice....
,
Eberhard WeberEberhard 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 EnsembleThe United Jazz + Rock Ensemble developed from a group of jazz musicians that was formed for a 1974 to 1975 television show of Süddeutscher Rundfunk...
,
EmbryoEmbryo are considered one of the most important German Krautrock bands of the 1970s. The musical collective from Munich has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid fifties in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10.-Band...
and numerous other notable musicians. He also played the
nadaswaramThe nadaswaram is one of the most popular classical instruments of South India and the world's loudest non-brass acoustic instrument...
, a traditional oboe from
South IndiaSouth India, also known as the Dravida in the Indian anthem, is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area...
.
Mariano moved to Europe in the 1970's and settled eventually in Köln (
CologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German 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...
), Germany with his painter wife, Dorothee Zippel. He had 6 daughters (including soul/jazz singer
Monday MichiruMonday 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 Akiyoshi), 6 grandchildren and 2 great granddaughters.
As leader
- Charlie Mariano Octet 1949
- Charlie Mariano: Boston All Stars 1951
- Charlie Mariano Quartett 1955
- Charlie Mariano: Folk Soul 1967
- Sadao Watanabe
is a Japanese jazz musician and saxophonist. He plays the alto saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute, and his work encompasses a large range of styles, with collaborations with musicians from all over the world, and also with friends such as Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, and Hank Jones...
& Charlie Mariano: Iberian Waltz (Denon, 1967)
- Charlie Mariano: Reflections 1974
- Philip Catherine
Philip 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 Percussion
The 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 1975 by the mridangam player T. A. S...
: Jyothi 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 Swallow
Steve Swallow is a jazz 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
As sideman
- The Toshiko - Mariano Quartet
The 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
- Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is a 1963 jazz composition and album by bassist and composer Charles Mingus. The piece consists of a single six-part suite performed by an eleven-piece band...
, 1963
- Embryo
Embryo are considered one of the most important German Krautrock bands of the 1970s. The musical collective from Munich has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid fifties in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10.-Band...
We keep on, 1973
- Pork Pie
Pork pies are a type of meat pie and are traditional British food. They consist of roughly chopped pork and pork jelly sealed in a hot water crust pastry, and are normally eaten cold.-Common pie:...
Transitory, 1974
- 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' Yellow fields, 1975 Silent Feet 1978 & Little movements 1980
- André Jaumes & Charlie Mariano Abbaye et lépau, 1990
- Charlie Mariano Bangalore, 1998
- 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
- Charlie Mariano & Dieter Ilg Due, 2005
- Joanna Rimmer Dedicated to..... Just Me! (Sam Productions, 2008)
- Supersister - Iskander, 1973
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