Diane Marino Musician - All About Jazz

Updated: November 9, 2024

Born: October 20

**New album available NOW on all streaming and online retail platforms:**

"Romance In The Dark" (M&M) 2024 Sets a romantic mood with
a collection of 4 recently recorded songs: “Romance In The Dark, Trust In Me - So In Love - I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know”, as well as 6 remixed and remastered songs, “Out Of This World - Speaking Of Happiness - The Jazz In You - You Don’t Know What Love Is – also, “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye and Yes I’m Ready” featuring Houston Person.

When you combine an accomplished vocalist, pianist, and arranger all in one individual, you have the dynamic Diane Marino.

Diane was born in Manhattan, NYC. She started her early piano training of classical studies and jazz improvisation from the age of 10. Diane graduated from NYC’S ‘Famed’ High School for the Performing Arts and later received her B.M. degree from Mannes College of Music in Manhattan as a piano performance major where she studied piano with world-renowned concert pianist Murray Perahia.

In her over 30 year career, Diane has performed Great American Song Book, traditional jazz, Latin and Brazilian jazz to captivated audiences in jazz venues, performing arts centers and festivals such as Birdland, Blues Alley - D.C., Catalina Jazz-LA, Vitello’s Jazz Club - L.A., Vibrato Grill Jazz -LA, Arts Garage-Del Ray Beach, Twins Jazz-D.C., Nighttown-Cleveland, Heidi’s Jazz Club-Cocoa Beach, Trumpets Jazz Club -NJ, Germantown Performing Arts Center, The Metropolitan Room-NYC, Bethesda Blues & Jazz - D.C, Montreux Atlanta Festival, Town Point Jazz Festival, Music City Jazz & Heritage Festival, to name a few.

M&M Records Recording Artist Diane Marino has recorded six critically acclaimed CD’s. All of which have received widespread airplay and critical acclaim. Diane's CD, "Soul Serenade"- The Gloria Lynne Project (March 16, 2018) is a celebration of the music from the great Jazz/Soul Jazz artist Gloria Lynne. Diane has recorded and shared the stage with jazz legends Houston Person, Joe Henderson, Wycliffe Gordon, Harry Allen, Pete Escovedo, Tania Maria, Kirk Whalum, pop music icon Felix Cavaliere and many others.

Awards

Coffee Talk Jazz Radio Jazz Vocalist of the Year -2011

Diane Marino: Romance In The Dark

Read "Romance In The Dark" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 9, 2024

Romance in the Dark, from highly-versatile vocalist-pianist-arranger Diane Marino and a team of Nashville's top studio players, offers 10 entertaining selections. Comprised of covers of well-known standards and classic soul material (with a handful-plus being remixed and remastered from the vocalist's previously released recordings), it is a thoroughly enjoyable and, yes, romantic effort. “Out of This World" opens the session in a lush exotic atmosphere. Originally recorded by Jo Stafford and nearly a jazz standard, Marino dives ...

Album Review

Diane Marino: I Hear Music

Read "I Hear Music" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 26, 2022

"I Hear Music," from Nashville-based vocalist, pianist and arranger Diane Marino, is a twelve-track retrospective of selections--famous and not so--drawn from the Songbook, as well as being associated with such great artists as Dakota Staton, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, and others. The opener, the rarely heard “I Hear Music," is Marino's fine upbeat take on an old Burton Lane & Frank Loesser tune from a forgetable pre-WWII film, “Dancing on a Dime" (Paramount Pictures, 1940). It is ...

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Diane Marino: On The Street Where You Live

Read "On The Street Where You Live" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 5, 2004

On her second album, singer-pianist Diane Marino presents eleven tracks of standards, jazz standards and five Brazilian-oriented selections. Her preference for the latter songs reflects her fluent Portuguese. These tunes are delivered with what sounds like a more Hispanic vocal and certainly has no affectations of American vocal versions of the same material. It would the difference between hearing Jobim being sung by Gal Costa and then by Joyce. Only “Once I Loved" is performed in English. “Toucans Dance," a ...

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Music Industry

Diane Marino Signs with Joe Magnetico & Associates , NYC

Source: Michael Ricci
December 17, 2009

New York, NY- Joe Magnetico & Associates talent management agency, today announced that accomplished singer/pianist Diane Marino has joined the agencys stable of stable of entertainers. Marino, who recently released her third CD album Just Groovin, had performed throughout the New York Metropolitan area at well-known cabaret venues including The Oak Room and The Rainbow Grill before she moved her home base to Nashville. Diane will return to her NYC roots this January to perform at The Metropolitan Room and ...
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Diane Marino is an unusually unique talent- great pianist, vocalist and arranger”- Les Davis-Real Jazz-Sirius/XM “Diane’s personal style provides the ultimate in cool for jazz listeners of all stripes. Her pacing is pure perfection, and her tones are full of the energy of life…A superb jazz vocal (“Soul Serenade- The Gloria Lynne Project) that you will treasure for years to come”. Dick Metcalf, Contemporary Fusion Reviews- 3/8/2018 “A striking vocalist, Diane Marino choses songs that bring out the emotional depth of her register. Her inflections make lyrics stand out in the listener’s mind”