Words matter. These are the best Chuck Mangione Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
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.
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
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.
Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.
The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.
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.
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
Because I don’t believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
I find it very difficult to compose when I’m not playing.
I have been recording for five decades now.
Whether it’s string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
What’s happened – in our country, anyhow – is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie – and – tails philharmonic image.
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.
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.
My goal was never to sell many records.
Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.
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.
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
