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Chuck Mangione

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 29, 1940

My goal was never to sell many records.

Chuck Mangione

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

Chuck Mangione

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

Chuck Mangione

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

Chuck Mangione

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

Chuck Mangione

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

Chuck Mangione

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

Chuck Mangione

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

Chuck Mangione

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.

Chuck Mangione

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.

Chuck Mangione