Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione
Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangioneis an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth29 November 1940
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
hearing listen music people recorded thirty today
I think people today are hearing music that I recorded thirty years ago and do not listen to it as if it is something old but just something good.
develop great jazz melodies music musicians standards written
Music and jazz musicians would develop into my repertoire. Jazz standards like these had great melodies written by great composers.
enjoy lifting music people
For me, lifting the people up, making them enjoy what we're doing is as important as it is for me to play the kind of music I want to play.
decided handle pay performance quite rehearsal somebody taking unless
To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.
thinking watches albums
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.
writing trying strings
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
music-is
To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
talking people way
Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.
school class ensemble
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.
fall together hanging-on
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.
brother school play
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.
strong
My music has always been strong in melodic content.
beautiful mistake passion
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.
strong people working-together
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.