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which was pretty much teaching [pri-
vate] lessons. Warner Brothers
Publicatio- ns approached me about writ-
ing a book, and I spent six years writing
Comprehensive Jazz Studies and Exercises.
"At the same time, they asked me to
film videos, so I did Modern Sax, an
overview of saxophone technique com-
bined with a lot of music and jazz the-
ory, and Play Sax From Day One, an
introduction to the horn and how to
approach it."
The musician went on to conduct
master classes and workshops at high
schools and colleges and write two
more books. The third, The Music of
Eric Marienthal, a transcription text, is
coming out at the end of the year.
When he is not working,
Marienthal shares carpooling duty
with his wife, Lee Ann, for whom he
has written and recorded another
upbeat song with her name as the title.
Both his children seem to be following
in his entertainment path. Katie, 13,
has sung in some professional record-
ings and is entering the Orange
County High School of the Arts.
Robert, 11, is a guitar player who
doesn't mind practicing.
"You have to practice every day or
your playing goes downhill," says
Marienthal, who follows a strict rou-
tine. "If I don't practice, I feel that I'm
not at the top of my game."
With a goal of getting his records to
more people, Marienthal is in the
middle of doing a new CD with Peak
Records. The mostly original music
will be released in April.
"I feel very blessed," says
Marienthal, who tries to share his bless-
ings through High Hopes, a center for
patients with closed-head injuries. "I
just finished my second High Hopes
Benefit Concert, where we raised
$55,000. I became friends with the
director of High Hopes, and I know
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we've tried to do."
Marienthal, the youngest of three
sons in a Jewish family, is the only
musician.
"When I was in fifth grade, I actu-
ally wanted to be a trumpet player,"
says Marienthal, whose teacher
explained that the braces would have
to mean another instrument. "I
thought the saxophone looked pretty
cool so I chose it, enjoyed it, showed
an aptitude for it and stuck with it."
By 10th grade, Marienthal was a
star performer in the All-Southern
California High School Jazz
Ensemble, and in his junior and sen-
ior years, he played in the Monterey
High School Honor Jazz Band. The
emerging sax player also performed in
the city's jazz festival along with
soloists Chuck Mangione, Hubert
Laws and Bill Evans.
Marienthal went on to attend Boston's
Berklee College of Music, where he
majored in performance and was a mem-
ber of Herb Pomeroy's recording band.
His first professional gig was with singer
Maureen McGovern, and he followed up
with a seven-month stint joining
Dixieland trumpeter Al Hirt.
After Chick Corea heard a club per-
formance in 1986, the legendary key-
boardist invited Marienthal to join his
Elektric Band.
"Meeting Chick turned everything
around," Marienthal says. "Two
months after the first session, we start-
ed rehearsing and were on our way to
Rio for the start of my first tour."
There would be many tours with
many musicians, including Piasek, a
Polish pop singer who invited
Marienthal to appear with him in
Israel, where the two made a video.
The saxophonist, whose mother fled
Nazi Germany and lived in Shanghai
for five years before moving to the
United States, took time to visit Tel
Aviv and Jerusalem.
Live performances and recordings
are only part of Marienthal's work.
"Everybody in Chick's band was very
involved in music education," he
explains. "It was something that I
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