Charlie Mariano - Careless (2019)

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Title: Careless
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: nagel heyer records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
Total Time: 1:16:13
Total Size: 467 / 176 MB
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Tracklist:

01. You Go to My Head
02. Estate
03. Green Walls
04. My Funny Valentine
05. Strike up the Band
06. Randy
07. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
08. Yours Is My Heart Alone
09. Slugger
10. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
11. Rubberneck
12. It's Nice
13. Doxy
14. My Melancholy Baby
15. I Thought About You
16. Chlo-E
17. Sweet Georgia Brown

Charlie Mariano's career can easily be divided into two phases. Early on he was a fixture in Boston, playing with Shorty Sherock (1948), Nat Pierce (1949-1950), and his own groups. After gigging with a band co-led by Chubby Jackson and Bill Harris, Mariano toured with Stan Kenton's Orchestra (1953-1955) which earned him a strong reputation. He moved to Los Angeles in 1956 (working with Shelly Manne and other West Coast jazz stars), returned to Boston to teach in 1958 at Berklee, and the following year, had a return stint with Kenton. After marrying Toshiko Akiyoshi, Mariano co-led a group with the pianist on and off up to 1967, living in Japan during part of the time and also working with Charles Mingus (1962-1963).

The second phase of his career began with the formation of his early fusion group Osmosis in 1967. Known at the time as a strong bop altoist with a sound of his own developed out of the Charlie Parker style, Mariano began to open his music up to the influences of folk music from other cultures, pop, and rock. He taught again at Berklee, traveled to India and the Far East, and in the early '70s settled in Europe. Among the groups Mariano has worked with have been Pork Pie (which also featured Philip Catherine), the United Jazz & Rock Ensemble, and Eberhard Weber's Colours. Charlie Mariano's airy tones on soprano and the nagaswaram (an Indian instrument a little like an oboe) fit right in on some new agey ECM sessions and he also recorded as a leader through the years for Imperial, Prestige, Bethlehem, World Pacific, Candid (with Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1960), Regina, Atlantic, Catalyst, MPS, CMP, Leo, and Calig, among others. ~ Scott Yanow