Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist.

Biography

He began playing in the 1960's with Lou Bennett, Dexter Gordon and Stéphane Grappelli. He was then a member of the Jean-Luc Ponty quintet, right after he recorded his first album, ''Stream'', produced by Frenchman Sacha Distel). The album was recorded in 1970, in Paris, and released in 1971 on Warner Bros. Records. A year later, he met John Scofield, Ran Blake, George Benson and more musicians in Boston.

In 1977 Catherine replaced Jan Akkerman in the Dutch rock group Focus and appeared on one album with the band, ''Focus con Proby'' which also featured American singer P. J. Proby. In the '80's he played extensively with the Chet Baker Trio. He is featured on several of Chet's albums. He also played with Charlie Mingus who named Catherine Young Django.

AllAboutJazz critique Ed Kopp in his review of Catherine's album ''Guitar Groove'' said:

"Guitar Groove is an astoundingly lyrical effort from a guitarist in his prime. It should appeal equally to fans of mainstream jazz and fusion, and to anyone who appreciates superior jazz musicianship."

Another AllAboutJazz critique John Kelman in his review of Cathrine's 2008 album ''Guitars Two'' said:

"Sometimes it's not a good thing to get branded too early in your career. Called ''the young Django" by Charles Mingus and operating in the same fusion sphere as John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell, Belgian Philip Catherine was pegged in the '70s as a firebrand guitarist, albeit an unabashedly lyrical one. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but Catherine's career, now nearing its sixth decade, has always been about a lot more than powerhouse fusion chops, something ''Guitars Two'' demonstrates in spades. Catherine's ability to reference traditional markers from Reinhardt to Wes Montgomery, while sounding like nobody but himself, makes Guitars Two the kind of career high point that ought to dispel the guitarist's early branding. The qualities that established his reputation remain, but are subsumed in a broader approach that makes Guitars Two deserving of a place alongside Pat Metheny's New Chautauqua (ECM, 1979), Bill Frisell's Ghost Town (Nonesuch, 2000) and Joe Pass' '70s Virtuoso series on Pablo', as a pinnacle of what can be done by one man and a handful of guitars."

Discography

With Other Artists

With Chet Baker :

With Baruti Trio @ 4 :

With Lou Bennett & Jack Sels:

With Emmanuel Bex, Aldo Romano:

With Carla Bley, Mike Mantler:

With Julien Clerc:

With Larry Coryell:

With Laila Dalseth:

With Freddie Deronde:

With Klaus Doldinger, Buddy Guy, Les McCann, Johny Griffin...

With Kenny Drew:

With European Jazz Ensemble :

With Focus:

With Richard Galliano:

With Michaël Gibbs:

With Dexter Gordon:

With Stéphane Grappelli:

With Peter Herbolzheimer:

With Karin Krog:

With Joachim Kühn:

With John Lee, Gerry Brown:

With Didier Lockwood, Christian Escoude:

With Marcia Maria:

With Charlie Mariano, Jasper Van' t Hof:

With Maurane:

With Charlie Mingus:

With Marc Moulin:

With NRD:

With Erkan Ogur:

With Orion:

With Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen:

With Ivan Paduart:

With Jacques Pelzer:

With Enrico Pieranunzi:

With Jean Luc Ponty:

With Joan Reinders:

With Aldo Romano:

With Zbigniew Seifert:

With Soledad:

With Oliver Strauch:

With Toots Thielemans:

With Klaus Weiss:

With Barney Wilen, Palle Danielsson:

With Diederik Wissels & David Linx:

With Robert Wyatt:

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Life and career

Clark returned to performing in 2005 as a solo entity. This new project received a positive review from ''Q'' magazine. He released his debut album ''21st Century Man'' on 20 November 2006. In 2007, Clark teamed up with dance music duo 'SFG' to produce a new version of "Good Enough" (originally released by Dodgy on their 1996 album ''Free Peace Sweet''). SFG (which stands for Sunshine Feel Good) had been writing dance tracks together in their Hereford recording studio for two years. The group consists of Jon Sidwell, who has worked alongside some of the top musicians and DJs in the United Kingdom for 25 years (including Judge Jules and Binary Finary), and Andrew Marston, who also presents the 'Friday Session Introducing...' on BBC Hereford & Worcester. Dodgy are currently playing festivals and performed at The Brighton Beer Festival on 15 July 2011, performing many old favourites.

BMG Music Publishing, who own the copyright to "Good Enough", allowed the reworking in July 2007, and the single was available as a white label. Clark planned to release the 'lost' album, 'Make Believe Love'.

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Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.

Biography

Besides his work and recordings with acclaimed Jazz musicians, he was best known for his use of a traditional, world's loudest Indian wind instrument called Nadaswaram which is similar to Shehnai, another North Indian, hardwood wind instrument.

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.

Mariano moved to Europe in the 1970s and settled eventually in Köln, Germany with his painter wife Dorothee Zippel where he died in his sleep on June 16, 2009.

Mariano had 6 daughters, including soul/jazz singer Monday Michiru from his marriage with Toshiko Akiyoshi, 6 grandchildren and 2 great granddaughters.

Discography

As leader or co-leader

As sideman

References

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Van de Geyn has played as a sideman for well-known jazz artists including Jean "Toots" Thielemans, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Tal Farlow and Dee Dee Bridgewater. He also has his own group, Baseline.

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Gordon attended Pinner County Grammar School (the school Reg Dwight (Elton John) and Simon Le Bon would later attend). He studied piano in his youth, but decided to go into a career in technical drawing. He went back to music after spending time in Canada where he was exposed to the works of George Shearing and Dave Brubeck.

On his return to England he joined Tubby Hayes group in 1962 and later formed his own trio, made up of Tony Oxley, Jeff Clyne, and himself. From 1969 to 1972 he toured with Phil Woods's European Rhythm Machine. He was a member of Nucleus during 1972-74 and after that formed the group ''Gyroscope''.

He also recorded albums with Allan Holdsworth, Henri Texier, Didier Lockwood and others.

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