Charlie Mariano

Charlie Mariano, a native Carmine Ugo Mariano ( born November 12, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, † 16 June 2009 in Cologne ) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist and oboist ( Nagaswaram ). Charles Mingus called Mariano's lyrical tone on the alto saxophone as " Tears of Sound ", suffering and tears of joy as sound. Mariano was one of the first jazz musicians who played world music.

Life and work

Mariano was the third and youngest child of Italian immigrants from Abruzzo, his father, the chef Giovanni Mariano and his mother Mary Digirronimo Mariano. He was great with opera music, received as a child piano lessons and changed until the age of 17 to the saxophone. His idol was at this time the saxophonist Lester Young. Later Mariano was then impressed by way of playing and sound of Johnny Hodges; Mariano called him " his first important role model ." Mariano played later, under the influence of John Coltrane and the soprano saxophone, and was one of the few saxophonists with an independent and recognizable characteristics play on this instrument, that was not his main instrument. Mariano in 1942 started performing in professional show bands. From 1943 to 1945 he was drafted into the U.S. Army, but not for combat, but only in military bands. He studied from 1945 three years music at Berklee College of Music (then called Schillinger House) in Boston, where he also taught from 1958. In 1948 he worked with Shorty Sherock together, with Larry Clinton, Nat Pierce, with whom he made ​​recordings from 1948, as well as in the band by Chubby Jackson and Bill Harris. In 1950 appeared his first recording under his own name ( Charlie Mariano and his jazz group, with Herb Pomeroy, Jaki Byard ).

As early as 1952 called him the jazz journalist Nat Hentoff as " the greatest musicians of Boston ." In 1953 he was in the band by Chubby Jackson and Bill Harris. From 1953 to 1955 he played with Stan Kenton. On the West Coast he played from 1956 to 1958 with Shelly Manne and was one of the leading members of his formation Shelly Manne & His Men, for which he wrote the suite "The Gambit " (1957). 1958/59 he went back to Boston and worked with Herb Pomeroy. In 1959 he was again half a year with Stan Kenton. In November 1959 he married pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Japanese ( the marriage was divorced in 1967 ), with which in 1960 he formed his own quartet. 1961 and 1963 they toured in Japan, where they lived 1963/4. 1964 was her quartet on tour in Europe. But Mariano also performed with many other jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and McCoy Tyner. In particular show his solos on the disc recording of the suite -like music The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady ( 1963) by Charles Mingus, which could develop expressiveness and intensity Mariano on alto saxophone, his main instrument.

1966 to 1967 he taught on behalf of the USIA members of the national radio orchestra in Malaysia. 1967/68 he lived in Japan. Since 1971, Mariano worked primarily in Europe, where he first settled in the Netherlands and Belgium. In 1972 he was involved in Zurich in the production of the play Marat / Sade by Peter Weiss. In 1973 he spent four months in South India, to study the local music and especially the wind instrument Nagaswaram. This resulted in continued cooperation with South Indian musicians like those of the Karnataka College of Percussion ( several tours, most recently in 2005 ). He has one hand facing the Rock Jazz, in the he incorporated elements of South Indian music ( in embryo (from 1972) and Jasper van't Hof pork pie, as of February 1974). On the other hand, he stressed - especially in their own groups, but also in the group of Eberhard Weber and in interaction with Zbigniew Seifert - the lyrical game. With the Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine and Jasper van't Hof, he recorded 1979 Sleep My Love. Mariano was also one of the founding members of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, the " band leader of the band ". In addition to many other occupations, even with younger musicians, he often performed in a trio with Ali and Daniel Humair Haurand. Since his collaboration for the album Savannah Samurai (1998) and the Freiburg Jazz bassist Dieter Ilg Mariano and Ilg talked a chamber music jazz duo.

Not only in the pop music he has composed on numerous albums (for example, by Herbert Grönemeyer, Konstantin Wecker ) left its mark, but also in the context of so-called world music with Rabih Abou- Khalil, with Dino Saluzzi and the dissidents. Mariano has been involved in a total of more than 300 LPs and CDs.

Toshiko Akiyoshi With he has born in 1963, daughter Monday Michiru, a singer and actress. After Mariano longer period of time had led a nomadic life between the U.S., Europe and Asia, he lived since 1986 in Cologne with his third wife, the painter and stage designer Dorothee Zippel - Mariano. In June 2009 Charlie Mariano died of cancer.

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Recordings under his own name

  • Boston All Stars / New Sound from Boston ( OJC 1951 /53)
  • Toshiko Mariano Quartet 1960
  • A Jazz Portrait of Charlie Mariano ( Fresh Sound Records, 1963)
  • Charlie Mariano: Folk Soul 1967
  • Charlie Mariano: Helen 12 Trees (MPS, 1976)
  • Charlie Mariano & Karnataka College of Percussion: Jyothi (ECM, 1983)
  • Charlie Mariano Group: Plum Iceland ( Mood, 1985)
  • Charlie Mariano & Friends: Seventy ( Intuition, 1993)
  • Savannah Samurai ( Jazz Line, 1998)
  • Bangalore ( Intuition, 1998)
  • Tango from Charlie ( Enja, 2000)
  • Charlie Mariano: When the Sun Comes Out 2005
  • Charlie Mariano: Silver Blue 2006

Albums as co-leader

  • Sadao Watanabe & Charlie Mariano: Iberian Waltz ( Denon, 1967)
  • Philip Catherine - Charlie Mariano - Jasper van't Hof: Sleep My Love (CMP, 1979)
  • Shigihara - Mariano - Wells - Kuttner: Tears of Sound 1984
  • André Jaume & Charlie Mariano: Abbaye de l' Epau 1990
  • Charlie Mariano - Jasper van't Hof: Innuendo ( Lipstick, 1992)
  • Jasper van't Hof, Charlie Mariano, Steve Swallow: Brutto Tempo 2001
  • Charlie Mariano & Vitold Rek: Cathedral, Vol 1, 2005
  • Charlie Mariano & R. A. Ramamani: Om Keshav, 2005
  • Dieter Ilg & Charlie Mariano: Due 2005
  • Mariano - Hübner- Beirach: Beauty, 2006
  • Sadao Watanabe: Sadao & Charlie Again, 2006
  • Max.bab & Charlie Mariano, 2007
  • Charlie Mariano & Mike Herting: The Music Of Charlie Mariano, 2007
  • Charlie Mariano & Quique Sinesi: Ecos Del Alma 2007
  • Charlie Mariano, John Schenk, Ramesh Shotham: The Tamarind Tree, 2007
  • Julian F. Thayer, Charlie Mariano, Klaus Suonsaari: The Door Is Open, 2008
  • Philip Catherine - Charlie Mariano - Jasper van't Hof: The Great Concert ( Enja Records, 2009)

Albums as a sideman

  • Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady ( 1963)
  • Embryo: We Keep On 1972
  • Pork Pie: Transitory 1974
  • Eberhard Weber: Colours ( ECM, 1975)
  • Pork Pie: The Door Is Open 1975
  • United Jazz Rock Ensemble: Live in Sagittarius House ( Mood, 1977)
  • Rabih Abou- Khalil: Blue Camel 1992
  • Johannes Schenk: as time goes B. A. C. H. Vol 1, 2000
  • Thorsten Klentze Quintet feat. Charlie Mariano: Prelude, 2003
  • Theo Jörgensmann: Fellowship, 2005
  • Johannes Schenk: as time goes B. A. C. H. Vol 2, 2005
  • Susmita Ghosh & Gerald Dorsch: Indian Roots, 2005
  • Sabine van Baaren: Whatever Comes, 2006
  • Geoff Goodman's Tabla & Strings: Song of Nature, 2008
  • Benjamin Koppel: Blues And Ballads, 2008

Awards

  • WDR Jazz Award 2007 Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • RUTH - The German World Music Award 2007
  • ECHO Jazz 2010 Special Award for his outstanding achievements in the Jazz area
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