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Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
Chuck Mangione
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Chuck Mangione
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 1
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Jazz Musician
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Rochester
New York
Charles Frank Mangione
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My goal was never to sell many records.
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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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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.
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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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My music has always been strong in melodic content.
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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.
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In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
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I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.
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To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
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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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I have been recording for five decades now.
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