MARK STEVEN COLBY

I met Mark many years ago when Frank Caruso introduced me to Mark at one of their performances. I can just imagine that Mark and Frank are playing HEAVENLY music together and without any interruptions. Joe DeLuca

Mark myself and Kenny Varone played music together during our high school years. Even at the age of 17 he made the notes on his sax sound like velvet. Kenny passed away a few years ago. I will miss going to Miami with Kenny to hear him play in Miami with Vince Maggio. I once asked Mark to explain the concept of jazz and he told me "It is a group of musicians each playing from their heart and soul." No one expressed that better than Mark and Vince. Mark will be missed by many musicians...

I met Mark when we both studied music at The University of Miami in 1967. We stayed friends until his death. I am deeply saddened. RIP dear friend.

Mark was my brother, 7 years younger. He was 15 when our dad died. He found a music teacher he really liked and about 6 months later, this 25 year old teacher died. He continued music in junior high, and started stopping by local clubs to listen to various jazz groups, one of which was Ira Sullivan. When he was 14 I sent him a 45 rpm of Getz with Antonio Carlos Joabim. He would tell me later that changed the trajectory to sax from clarinet. He is part of my heart forever. The best memory he...

Mark and Frank Caruso had a mind-set that was one. When they performed together they knew exactly what each one was going to do as if the music came from one intellect.
Now, they are continuing their spiritual musical inventions with the rest of their mutual friends.
Joe DeLuca