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Chuck Mangione - Flugelhorn
Don Potter - Guitar, Voice
Bat McGrath - Guitarron, Voice
Gap Mangione - Electric Piano
Stanley Watson - Guitar
Marvin Stamm - Trumpet
Gerry Niewood - Saxophones, Flute
Recorded live at the Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York
May 9, 1970
Mercury SRM 2-800
Released on DVD
Liner Notes
Chuck Mangione was invited to conduct a
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in May of 1970, and was given
full rein of the affair. The result is contained in this
album - a concert which Chuck composed for a full symphony
orchestra and six superbly accomplished soloists, imaginatively
staged with special visual effects, and performed before a
standing-room-only crowd of over 3,500. This concert was
video-taped by WXXI in Rochester, New York, under grants from
the Eastern Educational Television Network, the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting and the R.T. French Co.
Mangione's music is strongly rooted in the jazz
idiom, but he is reluctant to categorize his compositions:
" 'Friends & Love' was a gathering of musicians from a
variety of backgrounds, each one of whom contributed to the
whole. When the music is honest and full of love, labels
aren't important and people will listen with an open mind".
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