When expat American woodwind multi-instrumentalist Charlie Mariano passed away in the summer of 2009 at the age of 85, his death—like much of his life—seemed sadly lost in the shuffle in North America ...
Charlie Mariano best known through his world fusion ensembles that are engagingly East Indian, is first and foremost a balladeer as exemplified on his latest album Deep In A Dream, a program of rarely ...
Long before ”world music” became a record-store bin label, the Ornette Coleman-mentored jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, the multi-reeds players Yusef Lateef (who began using non-Western instruments in jazz ...
Long before “world music” became a record-store bin label, the Ornette Coleman-mentored jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, the multi-reeds players Yusef Lateef (who began using non-Western instruments in jazz ...
The alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano, who played with Stan Kenton in the 1950s and Charles Mingus in the 1960s, has died. The 85-year-old Boston-born Mariano succumbed to complications from cancer ...