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Philip Marino

Have played/toured/lived throughout the USA-and overseas. Main focus is Jazz-mostly hard bop straight stuff. I play acoustic bass and electric bass. I like the acoustic for the straight ahead stuff can not beat that sound-it is the sound this music was created with. I am extremly versatile-having grown up on a mix of classical, rock & roll and popular music as well as jazz. I have played a good amount of r&b and rock so I am comfortable with the electric bass and can get that sound too. I love music- the best force I have ever encountered.

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Phil Marino Songs (and Sinatra) Tell the Story of This Life

Phil Marino Songs (and Sinatra) Tell the Story of This Life

Source: Michael Ricci

STORY of a guys life, told in wine vintage terms. As Ervin Drake tells it, that was the note to himself that led to his writing a song, back in 1961, that earned a Grammy for Frank Sinatra.

At the time, Mr. Drake was in the office of a music publisher who told him that Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio would be coming in the following morning to select a new song, so he decided to compose one on ...

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