CHARLIE MARIANO - 1923年11月23日ボストンの生まれ～2009年6月16日にドイツにて死去。

チャーリー・マリアーノといえば、秋吉敏子の元夫でマンデイ満ちるの父親、そしてウェストコーストの名手として有名。

。。。だが、1970年代に残した彼の作品には、本当にすばらしい作品が数多く存在する。

'70年代の象徴とも言うべき内容の傑作揃いだ。

はっきり言ってぶっ飛ぶ。

多様な音楽性と先鋭的で実験的な姿勢。

ジャズロック～プログレ～エレクトリックジャズファンク～フュージョンの流れを自然に吸収し消化した楽曲群。

そしてエスニック～民族～アンビエント～スピリチュアル～そして現代音楽までものみ込んだディープなオーガニックサウンド。

他、Embryoやゲスト参加作などなど。。。

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Charlie Mariano – Mirror
Atlantic – SD 1608

エスニック～ジャズファンク～ジャズロック、エレピを使用したフュージョン的サウンド。ギターにスピノザ参加。

A1Himalaya
A2Shout
A3F Minor Happy
A4Theme From Summer Of '42(Michel Legrand)
B1Mirror
B2Vasi Bindu (Raindrops)
B3Madras

• Bass [Electric] – Tony Levine
• Double Bass [String Bass] – George Mraz
• Drums – Ray Lucas
• Electric Piano, Organ – Pat Rebillot
• Guitar – David Spinozza
• Percussion – Airto Moreira, Ralph McDonald
• Saxophone [Soprano, Alto] – Charlie Mariano (tracks: A1 to A3, B1, B2)

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Charlie Mariano With The Chris Hinze Combination
Freedom – 162 301

クリスヒンゼが参加したエレクトリックジャズファンク的内容。サイケで先鋭的だ。

A1Lullaby For Dewi
A2Mirror Of Your Mind
B1Traditional South Indian (Carnatic) Kirtanam (Ragam Madri)
B2Lassana Lamaya (Beautiful Child)

• Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Flute [Indian], Nadaswaram – Charlie Mariano
• Drums – Jimm Chaaperoe
• Flute, Flute [Alto], Piccolo Flute, Piano – Chris Hinze
• Piano, Electric Piano – Wim Stolwyk*
Recrded in Bearn, Holland, 31st July 1971

Charlie Mariano With The Chris Hinze Combination - Lullaby for Dewi

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Embryo & Mal Waldron & Charlie Mariano - 29.6.73 in Hamburg

Embryoにマル、マリアーノ参加のライヴ自主盤。
Bootleg LP of a concert recorded on June 29, 1973

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Gary Bartz, Lee Konitz, Charlie Mariano, Jackie McLean – Altissimo
Philips – RJ-5102, Nippon Phonogram – RJ-5102

４人のアルトによる日本企画盤。もの凄い面子。バックのトリオもすごい。

A1Another Hairdo
A2Mode For Jay Mac
A3Love Choral
B1Fanfare
B2Du (Rain)
B3Hymn
B4Telieledu Rama

• Alto Saxophone – Charlie Mariano, Gary Bartz, Jackie McLean, Lee Konitz
• Bass – Palle Danielsson
• Drums – Han Bennink
• Piano – Joachim Kühn

Recorded July 15 1973 at Rosenberg Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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こちらはCマリアーノ率いるバンドEmbryo - Flute, Saz and Marimba (1973)

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Charlie Mariano – Reflections
RCA Victor – YFPL 1-828

フィンランド録音。コルトレーンの「Naima」やマイルスの「Blue In Green」、ジャズロック風「Ramblin'」収録。ユッカトローネンやサブー参加。

A1.Glenford Crescent
A2.Naima
A3.Brother Muthaiah
A4.Spanish Dance No. 2
B1.Blue In Green
B2.Thiruvarankulam
B3.Chile
B4. Ramblin'

• Acoustic Bass – Pekka Sarmanto
• Congas – Sabu Martinez
• Drums – Esko Rossnell*, Reino Laine
• Electric Bass – Heikki Virtanen
• Electric Guitar – Jukka Tolonen
• Electric Piano – Olli Ahvenlahti
• Percussion – Sabu Martinez
• Piano – Esko Linnavalli, Olli Ahvenlahti, Pentti Hietanen
• Saxophone [Alto] – Charlie Mariano
• Saxophone [Soprano] – Charlie Mariano, Eero Koivistoinen
• Saxophone [Tenor] – Eero Koivistoinen
Recorded in Helsinki March 14th and 15th 1974 at Finnvox Studios.

試聴♪

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Charlie Mariano – Cascade
Keytone – KT 444 054

オランダのkeytoneに残した、フィリップカテリーン参加のジャズロック風作品。トゥーツシールマンスのkeytone盤にもPカテリーンが参加しているが、そちらもおすすめ。

A1Suite Of The Festival
A2Harriet
A3Quest
A4Electric Funk Jungle
B1Cascade
B2Piece For Banjo And Kazoo
B3Locus

• Acoustic Guitar [Spanish Guitar], Guitar [Electric Guitar] – Philip Catherine
• Bass [Acoustic, Electric] – John Lee (3)
• Drums, Percussion – Gerry Brown
• Electric Piano [Fender Piano], Organ – Jasper Van 't Hof*
• Flute – Chris Hinze
• Guitar [Electric Guitar] – Michaël Samson
• Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Piano] – Rob Van Den Broeck
• Saxophone [Alto, Soprano], Flute [Wooden Indian Flutes], Reeds [Nagafvaram] – Charlie Mariano

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Jac's Group Featuring Charlie Mariano – Jazz A Confronto 15
Horo Records – HLL 101-15

イタリアの人気レーベルHOROに残した、ジャズロック風作品。こちらもフィリップカテリーン参加。彼の参加作はどれもハズレなし。

A1. Look Up
A2. I Felt Obliged
A3. Zirkus
B1. 47 Seconds
B2Eighteen Bar Blues
B3Duo Maximum
B4Unexpected

• Bass – Jean-François Jenny-Clark*
• Drums – Aldo Romano
• Guitar – Philip Catherine
• Organ [Yamaha] – Jasper Van't Hof
• Saxophone [Alto], Saxophone [Tenor], Flute – Charlie Mariano

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”, Rome on January 18 1975

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Charlie Mariano – Helen 12 Trees
MPS Records – DC 229 416

ヤンハマーのエレピ、ムーグシンセを使用したMPSならではのジャズロック風内容。

A1Helen Twelvetrees
A2Parvati's Dance
A3Sleep, My Love
A4Thorn Of A White Rose
B1Neverglade Pixies
B2Charlotte
B3Avoid The Year Of The Monkey

• Bass – Jack Bruce
• Composed & Reeds By – Charlie Mariano (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B3)
• Drums – John Marshall
• Percussion – Nippy Noya
• Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Moog] – Jan Hammer
• Violin – Zbigniew Seifert

Recorded and mixed May 6, 7, 8, 1976 at Union Studio Munich -Solln, Germany.

Charlie Mariano - Helen 12 Trees (MPS)

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Charlie Mariano – October
Contemp Records – Contemp 2

スピリチュアル～インド風、ジャズロック～現代音楽的内容。ベースはバールフィリップス。

A1. Aszu
A2. Nagaswarup
A3. Earth
A4. Out Of The Jungle
B1. To An Elfin Princess
B2. 7 Up
B3. Back Of J.
B4. Down The Kaveri

• Acoustic Bass – Barre Phillips
• Acoustic Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesizer – Rainer Brüninghaus
• Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Nagaswaram – Charlie Mariano
• Drums, Percussion – Udo Dahmen
• Electric Bass – Hans-Georg Meuser
• Tabla, Percussion – Trilok Gurtu

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Philip Catherine, Charlie Mariano, Jasper Van't Hof – Sleep My Love
CMP Records – CMP 5 ST

管、ギター、鍵盤のトリオ。シンセサイザー等を使用した独特でミニマルな世界観。

A1. Sleep My Love
A2. 5 Pages
A3. Le Sept Boules De Christal
A4. Scrabble
B1. Janet
B2. Smell Of Madras
B3. Improvisation On A Theme Of Schoenbergs "Verklärte Nacht"

 

• Saxophone [Soprano, Alto], Flute, Reeds [Nagaswaram] – Charlie Mariano
• Guitar [Electric], Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [Guitar Synthesizer] – Philip Catherine
• Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Kalimba – Jasper Van't Hof
• Recorded By – Henrik Lund
• Recorded By [Supervised By] – Vera Brandes
 

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Charlie Mariano - Crystal Bells
CMP (Germany) 10 ST

こちらもクリアで洗練されたエレピ等使用のジャズロック～フュージョン的クロスオーバーな作品。

A1. Cynthia
A2. Afreeka
A3. Crystal Bells
B1. Telisi Rama (trad.)
B2. Becky
B3. Turquoise

• Charlie Mariano – alto & soprano saxophones, bamboo flutes, nagaswaram
• Stu Goldberg – piano, keyboards, synthesizers
• Gene Perla – bass
• Don Alias – drums, congas, percussion

Recorded in December 1979 and mixed in January 1980 by Henrik Lund at Easy Sound Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
Produced by Kurt Renker