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• We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

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• 1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:

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• As for the symphonic activities… when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

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• A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

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• Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

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• Because I don’t believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

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• I have been recording for five decades now.

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• I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

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• I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

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• I find it very difficult to compose when I’m not playing.

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• I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

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• I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

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• In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

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• I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

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• I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they’re going to hear, or won’t come for this reason.

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• I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

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• Most recently we’ve been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren’t too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott’s, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

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• My goal was never to sell many records.

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• My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

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• Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

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Chuck Mangione (31)

Birth:	29th November, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Musician

About

Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione was born in Rochester, New York. He is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer. After a stint with drummer Art Blakey's band and co-leading the Jazz Brothers with his sibling Gap Mangione, Chuck Mangione achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." He has released more than thirty albums since 1960. "Bellavia," recorded during this collaboration, won Mangione his first Grammy Award in 1977 in the category Best Instrumental Composition. In 1978 Mangione composed the soundtrack for the film The Children of Sanchez starring Anthony Quinn. This album won him his second Grammy, in the category Best Pop Instrumental performance in 1979 and the title song, almost 15 minutes long in full version and featuring a wind section theme.

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