Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz saxophonist who focused on the alto and soprano saxophone. He occasionally performed and recorded on flute and nadaswaram as well.

Biography

Mariano was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Italian immigrants, John (Giovanni) Mariano and Mary (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 World War II. After his service in the Army, Mariano attended what was then known as Schillinger 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, the painter Dorothee Zippel Mariano.

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.

His unusual application of the nadaswaram, a classical wind instrument from Tamil Nadu, was a notable occasional feature of his work in the 1970s.

Mariano had six daughters, including four with his first wife, Glenna Gregory Mariano: Sherry, Cynthia, Melanie, and Celeste, and was step-father to Glenna's son, Paris Mariano. Mariano is father to musician Monday Michiru with his second wife, Toshiko Akiyoshi. He had his youngest daughter, Zana Mariano, with partner, Charlotte Bulathsinghla. Mariano had seven grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. Mariano died of cancer on June 16, 2009, at the age of 85.

Discography

As leader
 Charlie Mariano With His Jazz Group (Imperial, 1950)
 The New Sounds From Boston (Prestige, 1951)
 Charlie Mariano Boston All Stars (Prestige, 1953) reissued on CD with New Sounds
 Charlie Mariano Sextet (Fantasy, 1953)
 Charlie Mariano (Bethlehem, 1956)
 Beauties of 1918/Something for Both Ears (World Pacific, 1957 [1958]) – co-led with Jerry Dodgion
 A Jazz Portrait of Charlie Mariano (Regina, 1963)
 Charlie Mariano & Sadao Watanabe (Victor, 1967)
 Mirror (Atlantic, 1972)
 Cascade (Limetree,1974)
 Helen 12 Trees (MPS, 1976)
 Reflections (Catalyst, 1977)
 October (Inner City 1978)
 Mariano (Capitol/Intuition, 1988)
 Swingin' with Mariano (Affinity, 1990)
 Boston Days (Fresh Sound, 1994)
 Seventy (Intuition, 1995)
 Deep in a Dream (Enja, 2003)

As co-leader
With Osmosis
 Osmosis (RCA, 1970)

With United Jazz + Rock Ensemble
 Live im Schützenhaus (1977)
 Teamwork (1978)
 The Break Even Point (1979)
 Live in Berlin (1981)
 United Live - Opus Sechs (1984)
 Round Seven (1987)
 Na endlich! - Live in Concert (1992)

As sideman

With Embryo
 We Keep On (BASF, 1973)
 Surfin' (BASF, 1975)
 Bad Head And Bad Cats (April, 1976)
 Live Embryo (April, 1977)
 Life (Schneeball, 1981)
 29.6.73 In Hamburg (Schneeball, 2003)

With Wolfgang Dauner
 Meditation on a landscape-Tagore (MOOD Records, 1986)'

With Stan Kenton
 Contemporary Concepts (Capitol, 1955)
 Road Show (Capitol, 1959)
 Standards in Silhouette (Capitol, 1960)
 Viva Kenton! (Capitol, 1960)
 Live at Palo Alto (Status, 1990)
 Mellophonium Moods 1962 (Status, 1990)

With Shelly Manne
 Swinging Sounds (Contemporary, 1956)
 More Swinging Sounds (Contemporary, 1957)
 Concerto for Clarinet & Combo (Contemporary, 1957)
 The Gambit (Contemporary, 1958)

With Charles Mingus
 The Complete Town Hall Concert (United Artists, 1962)
 Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!, 1964)
 The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963)

With Eberhard Weber
 Yellow Fields (ECM, 1976)
 Silent Feet (ECM, 1978)
 Little Movements (ECM, 1980)

With others
 Toshiko Akiyoshi, The Toshiko–Mariano Quartet (Candid, 1961)
 Toshiko Akiyoshi, Jazz in Japan Recorded in Tokyo (Vee Jay, 1965)
 Manny Albam, The Jazz Greats of Our Time Vol. 2 (Coral, 1958)
 Max Bennett, Max Bennett Plays (Bethlehem, 1956)
 Max Bennett, Max Bennett Vol. II (Bethlehem, 1956)
 Chet Baker, Theme Music from "The James Dean Story" (World Pacific, 1957)
 Philip Catherine, Guitars (Atlantic, 1976)
 Philip Catherine, End of August (WEA, 1982)
 Serge Chaloff, Serge & Boots/Plays the Fable of Mabel (Vogue, 1957)
 Peggy Connelly, Peggy Connelly (Bethlehem, 1956)
 Herb Ellis, Ellis in Wonderland (Norgran, 1956)
 Maynard Ferguson, The Blues Roar (Mainstream, 1964)
 Michael Gibbs, Directs the Only Chrome-Waterfall Orchestra (Bronze, 1975)
 Michael Gibbs, By the Way (Ah Um, 1993)
 John Graas, Jazz Studio 3 (Decca, 1954)
 George Gruntz,  Theatre (ECM, 1983)
 Chico Hamilton, The Further Adventures of El Chico (Impulse!, 1966)
 Bill Harris, Bill Harris Herd (Norgran, 1956)
 Bill Holman, In a Jazz Orbit (Andex, 1958)
 Bill Holman, The Fabulous Bill Holman (Coral 1958)
 Jackie and Roy, Free and Easy! (ABC-Paramount, 1958)
 Elvin Jones, Dear John C. (Impulse!, 1965)
 Quincy Jones, Go West, Man! (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
 Quincy Jones, This Is How I Feel About Jazz (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
 Mel Lewis, Mel Lewis Sextet (Mode, 1957)
 Arif Mardin, Glass Onion (Atlantic, 1969)
 Vince Mendoza, Sketches (ACT, 1994)
 Modern Jazz Quartet, Jazz Dialogue (Atlantic, 1966)
 Mike Nock, Magic Mansions (Laurie, 1977)
 Nat Pierce, The Nat Pierce-Dick Collins Nonet/The Charlie Mariano Sextet (Fantasy, 1956)
 Herb Pomeroy, Band in Boston (United Artists, 1959)
 Irene Reid, Room for One More (Verve, 1965)
 Johnny Richards, Something Else by Johnny Richards (Bethlehem, 1956)
 Jimmy Ricks, Vibrations (Mainstream, 1965)
 Shorty Rogers, The Big Shorty Rogers Express (RCA Victor, 1956)
 Frank Rosolino, Frank Rosolino (Capitol, 1954)
 Frank Rosolino, Frankly Speaking (Capitol, 1955)
 Sal Salvador, You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet! (Dauntless, 1963)
 Fredy Studer, Seven Songs (Intuition, 1993)
 Harvie Swartz, Smart Moves (Gramavision, 1986)
 McCoy Tyner, Live at Newport (Impulse!, 1963)
 Sadao Watanabe, Iberian Waltz (Intakt, 1967)
 Sadao Watanabe, We Got a New Bag (Intakt, 1968)
 Stu Williamson, Stu Williamson (Bethlehem, 1956)
 Stu Williamson, Stu Williamson Plays (Bethlehem, 1957)
 Pierre Moerlen's Gong : Pierre Moerlen's Gong Live (Arista Records, 1980)
 Supersister : Iskander (Polydor, 1973)
See also
Izzy Ort's Bar & Grille

References

Further reading
 Lothar Lewien: Charlie Mariano. Tears of Sound. Wanderer zwischen den Musikwelten.'' Hannibal Verlag, Andrä Wördern 1993,

External links
[ allmusic.com]
Comprehensive bio-/discography

 

1923 births
2009 deaths
American expatriates in Germany
American jazz alto saxophonists
American male saxophonists
American oboists
Male oboists
Musicians from Boston
Deaths from cancer in Germany
ECM Records artists
Timeless Records artists
Enja Records artists
United Jazz + Rock Ensemble members
20th-century American saxophonists
Jazz musicians from Massachusetts
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
European Jazz Ensemble members
Gong (band) members
American emigrants to Germany