Charlie Mariano Quartet - Lucie Wrong
It's a Sunday centennial celebration in here, and you're invited.
I've covered this guy once before, but for the big 100s I allow for repetition.
A severely undersung Jazz hero, he was known for employing exotic and unusual horns, like the nagaswaram -- a South Indian classical wind instrument -- into his music.
Now they call it "world music" and it rakes in the cash, but back then such hybrid approaches were not yet a thing.
It took visionary and exploratory artists such as Charlie Mariano to bring everyone up to speed.
He passed in 2009 after a long career challenging the boundaries, as both a part of a handful of seminal bands as well as on his own, but he'd have been a century old today.
Let's pay him the proper tribute, with a sizzling 1986 concert from Austrian radio.... and just maybe a little something extra.
Charlie Mariano Quartet
Audimax
Technische Universität
Vienna, Austria
11.28.1986
01 Lucie Wrong
02 Gems
03 To an Elfin Princess
04 Cheops
05 Yagapriya
06 Scooter
07 Mute
08 One Day
Total time: 1:20:52
disc break goes after Track 04
Charlie Mariano - saxophones & reeds
Jasper van't Hof - piano & keyboards
Bo Stief - bass
Freddy Studer - drums
digital capture of an OE1 digital FM rebroadcast from November 2023
482 MB FLAC/direct link
There's an additional treat in the folder there, which I think will set your Funky Fusion detectors buzzing with a Greasy Gravy alert... but we'll let that be a special surprise.
I'll be back with more Business As Usual in a few days, but don't forget to enjoy these Charlie Mariano centennial expressions, as we celebrate one of the most uncompromising players ever to wail!--J.
11.12.1923 - 6.16.2009