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by Jack Bowers
Chuck Mangione Friends and Love Gates Music 2007
In the decade 1970-80 composer/arranger/trumpeter Chuck Mangione was hotter than a four-alarm fire, drawing large audiences to his concerts and producing two Grammy Award-winning albums that combined elements of Jazz, pop, New Age and even classical music in performances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and other ensembles. One of those concerts, Friends and Love, taped in 1970 at the Eastman Theatre and telecast on ...
read moreChuck Mangione: The Feeling's Back
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Mangione, who all but disappeared from the radar screens after his enormously successful run of best-selling albums in the mid- to late-'70s, says “the feeling's back" -- and, if we are to judge from his even-tempered debut for Chesky Records, so is Chuck, who seems to be playing his dulcet flugel as well as ever.
He's always had a well-developed ear for beguiling melodies, and that too seems as keen as ever. While one may question the music's Jazz ...
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