中文名：埃里克·马林塔尔 外文名：Eric Marienthal 毕业院校：伯克利音乐学院 出生日期：1957年12月13日 国 籍：美国 简介：现代爵士萨克斯手Eric Marienthal艾瑞克·马瑞安托1959年12月19日出生于加州沙加缅度。在他还是一位伴奏者的配角时，就已经让听众感受到他是一位富有创意的即兴演奏者。 他曾在柏克来音乐学院读了兩年，之后与Al Hirt做了七个月时间的旅行演奏。1986年时认识了钢琴手Chick Corea奇·柯瑞亚，随后认识Chick Corea的电子化乐团的萨克斯风手。艾瑞克·马瑞安托与钢琴手David Benoit以及吉他手Lee Ritenour一起在GRP唱片公司的全明星大乐团做巡迴演出。 艾瑞克·马瑞安托是当今现代爵士乐坛中少见的全面性萨克斯风名家，原本只在Jazz Club中演出的他，因被Fusion先驱Chick Corea奇·柯瑞亚发掘，因而使艾瑞克展开了一段崭新的演出生涯。除了跟著乐团展开世界巡回表演、推出个人专辑外，也在作曲、编曲上发挥创作的才能，全方位的当代爵士演绎在他身上，呈现最为令人击节而赞的感动诗篇。 Eric Marienthal的萨克斯无论低音高音，都温润的很，衔接和转变都挥洒自如，技巧只能用“潇洒”来形容了。虽然大部分曲目都是标准的SMooth Jazz的风格和旋律，但是，仔细聆听里面的每一个章节都是可圈可点。 从艺历程：Eric Marienthal在他还是一位伴奏者的配角时，就已经让听众感受到他是一位富有创意的即兴演奏者。他曾在柏克来音乐学院读了两年，之後与Al Hirt做了七个月时间的旅行演奏。 专辑作品：1988: Voices of the Heart (GRP) 1989: Round Trip (GRP) 1990: Crossroads (GRP) 1991: Oasis (GRP) 1993: One Touch (GRP) 1994: Street Dance (GRP) 1997: Easy Street (PolyGram/Verve) 1997: Collection (GRP) 1998: Walk Tall (Verve) 2001: Turn Up the Heat (Peak) 2003: Sweet Talk (Peak) 2005: Got You Covered (Peak) 2007: Just Around the Corner (Peak) 2012: It's Love (Peak/Entertainment One) 2015: Bridges with Chuck Loeb (Shanachie) 早年经历：Eric Marienthal was born on December 13, 1957 in Sacramento, California to Robert Marienthal, an insurance salesman, but moved to San Mateo when he was two years old.[3] He has credited his enthusiasm for music on being taught music while in school, and picked up the saxophone in the fourth grade after he thought it looked "pretty cool". Marienthal has also mentioned his father was a fan of music, particularly 1940s and 1950s such as Boots Randolph, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.[4] He initially wanted to pick up the trumpet but a teacher discouraged him because of his braces. As Marienthal progressed, his father bought him a $400 Selmer saxophone and enrolled him in Corona Del Mar High School.[3] Throughout his education, Marienthal also learned to play guitar (in grade school), flute, clarinet (both high school) and piano (college).[4] After graduating from high school in Southern California in 1976, he studied at the Berklee College of Music,[5] where he studied with the saxophone professor, Joe Viola.[4] By the time he left Berklee, Eric had achieved the highest proficiency rating given by the school.[6] In 1995 Eric was awarded the Berklee Distinguished Alumnus Award for outstanding achievements in contemporary music. He has since gone on to perform in over 65 different countries, recorded 14 solo CDs and has played on hundreds of records, films, television shows and commercial jingles. 职业生涯：Marienthal started his professional career in 1980 with famed New Orleans trumpeter Al Hirt.[1] After returning to Los Angeles, Eric became a member of the Chick Corea Elektric Band.[1] Marienthal has stated that he was a Chick Corea fan even before he started performing with him.[3] He recorded six albums with that band and two of them won Grammy Awards. Six of the songs that Marienthal has recorded have made it to the top 10 of the National Contemporary Jazz Radio Charts and two have made it to No. 1. His Oasis album hit the top 5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart. Shortly after that, he was voted one of the year's "Favorite Alto Sax Players" in Jazziz magazine's Readers' Poll along with David Sanborn and Phil Woods.[citation needed] Marienthal (left) and Russ Freeman Marienthal has also written instructional books, including Comprehensive Jazz Studies & Exercises, The Ultimate Jazz Play Along, and The Music of Eric Marienthal and instructional videos, including Play Sax From Day One, Modern Sax and Tricks of the Trade, all published by Warner Brothers Publications, which is now Alfred Publishing/Belwin Jazz. Every summer since 1999, he has put on an annual fundraising concert for High Hopes Head Injury Program, a non-profit organization in Orange County, California that works with people who have suffered traumatic head injuries.[7][8] Marienthal occupies the lead alto chair of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band,[2] playing alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, and piccolo.[3] In 2012, Marienthal released the album It's Love, produced by guitarist Chuck Loeb, who also appears on the tracks. The studio band includes keyboardist Russell Ferrante, drummer Gary Novak, and bassist Tim Lefebvre.