Charlie Mariano是60年代中一位杰出的Session Man，以吹奏高音萨克斯風为名的Mariano于50年代分别待命于Stan Kenton大乐团，并且一度成为Shelly Manne这位酷派鼓手的伴奏团员。60年代的Mariano与日本名爵士编曲／钢琴家Toshiko Akiyoshi结婚后，依然活跃于乐坛，除了他们夫妻档的乐团之外，于1962至63年，Charlie Mariano更一度成为贝斯手Charles Mingus后期的十人大乐团员。 　　Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. 　　Mariano was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Italian immigrants, Giovanni Mariano and Maria Di Gironimo of Fallo, Italy. He grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, enlisting in the Army Air Corps after high school, during WWII. After his service in the Army Mariano attended what was then known as Schlesinger House of Music, now Berklee College of Music. He was among the faculty at Berklee from 1965 to 1971. Mariano moved to Europe in 1971, settling eventually in Köln (Cologne), Germany, with his third wife, Dorothee Zippel. 　　He played with one of the Stan Kenton big bands, Toshiko Akiyoshi (his then wife), Charles Mingus, Eberhard Weber, the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Embryo and numerous other notable bands and musicians. 　　He was known for his use of the nadaswaram, a classical wind instrument from Tamil Nadu. 　　Mariano had six daughters, including four with his first wife, and musician Monday Michiru with his second wife. He had six grandchildren and two great-granddaughters. 　　He died of cancer on June 16, 2009