Chuck Mangione

Musician

1940-11-29

Chuck Mangione is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, and composer known for the crossover jazz hit Feels So Good. He won multiple Grammy Awards during his recording career.

Quotes by 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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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