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.
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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.Chuck Mangione
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Chuck Mangione
I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.
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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.
Chuck Mangione
It felt like somebody had performed major surgery on me. But it was a way for my music to be played on the radio. It made it possible for everyone to hear the song.
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For me, anyhow, there's something kinda special about the Quartet in one sense the music is very organised and yet in another sense it's very loose.
Chuck Mangione
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