1. Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz saxophonist who focused on the alto and soprano saxophone.
10 Facts About Charlie Mariano
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Charlie Mariano occasionally performed and recorded on flute and nadaswaram as well.
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Charlie Mariano was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Italian immigrants, John Charlie Mariano and Mary Di Gironimo of Fallo, Italy.
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Charlie Mariano grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, enlisting in the Army Air Corps after high school, during World War II.
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Charlie Mariano was among the faculty at Berklee from 1965 to 1971.
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Charlie Mariano moved to Europe in 1971, settling eventually in Koln, Germany, with his third wife, the painter Dorothee Zippel Charlie Mariano.
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Charlie Mariano played with one of the Stan Kenton big bands, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Charles Mingus, Eberhard Weber, the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Embryo and numerous other notable bands and musicians.
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Charlie Mariano's unusual application of the nadaswaram, a classical wind instrument from Tamil Nadu, was a notable occasional feature of his work in the 1970s.
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Charlie Mariano is father to musician Monday Michiru with his second wife, Toshiko Akiyoshi.
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Charlie Mariano died of cancer on June 16,2009, at the age of 85.