New Orleans (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
cleopatra’s needle - 2485 broadway | new york,ny 10025- Steve Turre: Cleopatra’s Needle, Rainbow People (HighNote). 10:40pm Charlie Mariano: Boston Uncommon, Boston ...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Mariano's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Charlie MarianoCharlie Mariano (born November 12, 1923 in Boston) is an American jazz alto saxophonist. He played with one of the Stan Kenton big bands, Toshiko Akiyoshi (his then wife), Charles Mingus, Eberhard Weber... more...
Casa Valdez Studios (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Here's a Charlie Mariano fakebook that was published by Berklee press back in 1960, when Charlie was teaching there. Charlie is of course of the great alto players of all time and a wonderful composer. There are some very nice tunes in here, one of those is a tune that I've been looking for for a while called Blue Walls (or Blue Balls as the cats in Bo ston used to call it). Herb Pomeroy turned me...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
STONE GARDEN Tony Oxley Quintet The Baptised Traveller Columbia : 1969 TO, drums; Evan Parker, tenor sax; Kenny Wheeler, trumpet, flugelhorn; Derek Bailey, electric guitar; Jeff Clyne, bass. This pilgrimage starts through the forest along dirt roads whose tracks vanish so gradually you’re bushwacking through the ferns before you finally notice. You’re surrounded by fog and mossy tree trunks, lost [...]...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
One of the greatest definers of late-1960s and early-1970s jazz was the collaboration of musicians from disparate backgrounds, a perfect example being Charlie Mariano's 1976 MPS release, Helen Twelve Trees (Promising Music/MPS, 2008), featuring ex-Mahavishnu keyboardist Jan Hammer alongside ex-Cream bassist Jack Bruce. Equally, 1972's Sugar Cane's Got the Blues--another MPS title seeing issue on CD...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
MPS is MOST PROMISING SOUND MARCH 2008 RELEASES WOLFGANG DAUNER "Free Action" ...feat. a.o. Jean-Luc Ponty and Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru) DON "SUGAR CANE" HARRIS "Sugar Cane's Got The Blues" ...feat. a.o. Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine), Volker Kriegel (Dave Pike Set) and Terje Rypdal GEORGE DUKE "Faces In Reflection" ...feat. Leon Ndugu Chancler (Santana) and John Heard...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 08/24/2007
80's Hits In Bossa - 80's Hits In Bossa (Pid ) Aman Aman - Musica I Cants Sefadis D'Orient I Occident (Galileo ) Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe - An Evening of Yes Music Plus (Voiceprint) - DVD-Video Anoushka Shankar - Breathing Under Water (Manhattan Records ) Arbors - Symphonies For Susan (Rev-Ola Records (UK) ) Audio Caviar - Transoceanic (Thump) Azymuth - Jazz Carnival (Big Beat Records ) B....
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 08/17/2007
The passing of Herb Pomeroy on August 11 leaves jazz education in New England without...
