Mike Marciano is a two-time

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-winning

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, and six time Grammy nominated, multi-platinum and gold record award, GMA and Junos award recipient. He started his career in 1980, recording, mixing and mastering exclusively at Systems Two Recording Studio in

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. Early in his career, he worked with many well-known rock and heavy metal groups, including

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Agnostic Front Agnostic Front is an American hardcore punk band from New York City. Founded in 1980, the band is considered an important influence on the New York hardcore scene, as well as a pioneer of the crossover thrash genre. History First era (1980– ...

Life of Agony Life of Agony is an American alternative metal band from Brooklyn, New York City, formed in 1989 by singer Keith Caputo, bassist Alan Robert and guitarist Joey Z. The band has released six studio albums to date, most notably their 1993 debut '' ...

. Many of his hardcore and metal credits are noted in Encyclopaedia Metallum. His work with Type O Negative was used in multiple movie soundtracks and other media. Since the early 90s, he has worked with some of the top musicians in the jazz field, including jazz greats like

Wynton Marsalis Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young ...

(and his Grammy-nominated “Joe Cool's Blues”),

Brad Mehldau Bradford Alexander Mehldau (; born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Mehldau studied music at The New School, touring and recording while still a student. He was a member of saxophonist Joshua Redman's quar ...

Robert Glasper Robert Andre Glasper (born April 5, 1978) is an American pianist, record producer, songwriter, and Arrangement, musical arranger. His music embodies numerous musical genres, primarily centered around jazz. Glasper has won five Grammy Awards from ...

Clark Terry Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American Swing music, swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948� ...

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, and

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. His work with

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was used as the theme song for '' Cosby''. Mike's partial discographies (well over 1300 album credits) are avail. on https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mike-marciano-mn0000894902 and https://www.allmusic.com/artist/michael-marciano-mn0000460998#credits

Accolades

In 2011, he received his first Grammy Award for

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" The Mosaic Project" by Terri Lynne Carrington. Then, in 2013 he received his second Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, " Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue", by Terri Lynne Carrington. In 2016, Marciano recorded ''

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'' by

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, which received a

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. The same year his work on ''Impromptu'' by the Rodriguez Brothers was also nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2017, his work on Madera Latino by Brian Lynch was nominated for a Grammy. In 2018, Two additional projects that Marciano engineered were nominated for Grammy's,''Tipico'' by

Miguel Zenón Miguel Zenón (born December 30, 1976) is a Puerto Rican alto saxophonist, composer, band leader, music producer, and educator. He is a Grammy Award winner, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Doris Duke Artis ...

and ''Art of the Arrangement'' by Doug Beavers. Also in 2019, Mike's work on ''Happened, Happening'' by Yuying Hsu won him a

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for Best Instrumental Recording Album - Technical Category. In 2019, his work on

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's ''Cinque'' was nominated for a Best Latin Jazz Album Grammy Award. In 2020, his work on ''Carib'' by David Sánchez was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Latin Jazz album category. In 2021, Mike received his Grammy Win certificate for his mastering work on "Puertos: Music from International Waters": by The Emilio Solla Tango Jazz Orchestra, Best Jazz Album Also in 2021, he received a

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for

Andy Milne Andy Milne (born January 30, 1969) is a Canadian jazz pianist, who records and performs both as a solo artist and as the leader of the ensemble Dapp Theory. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and raised in Kincardine and Toronto. One of ten sibl ...

and Unison's Best Jazz Album Award for ''reMission''. Also in 2021, another project Mike recorded, mixed and mastered received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album for Dafnis Prieto Sextet "Transparency" Mike is credited on well over 1,300 recordings. He continues his career as "Systems Two", recording, mixing, and mastering some of today's top jazz albums.

Gold and Platinum RIAA Certified Awards

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Soundtrack (Cert. Platinum 1996) * Howard Stern - Private Parts (Cert. Platinum 1997) *

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(Cert. Gold 1995, Cert. Platinum 2000) *

October Rust ''October Rust'' is the fourth studio album by American gothic metal band Type O Negative. It was released in 1996. This is the first album with Johnny Kelly credited as the band's drummer, although programmed drums are used on the album. ''Oc ...

(Cert. Gold 2000) * Nativity in Black - A Tribute to Black Sabbath (Cert. Gold 2000) *After Dark DVD (Cert. Gold 2000)

Recorded Work Used on Movie Soundtracks

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'' ("Love You to Death" by

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'' ("We Were Electrocute" by Type O Negative) *''

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'' ("Summer Breeze" by Type O Negative) *'' Howard Stern - Private Parts'' ("Pictures of Matchstick Men" by

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with Type O Negative) *''

'' ("Blood and Fire" by Type O Negative) *''

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'' ("Haunted" by Type O Negative) *''

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'' (Type O Negative Compilation) *'' Descent 2''

Recorded Work Used in Other Media

*'' Cosby'' (theme song) *''

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'' *'' Descent II - The Vertigo Series'' *''

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'' *'' The Darkness'' *'' NASCAR: Crank It Up''

References

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