Main Squeeze (Remastered) Chuck Mangione

• 1 (The Day After) Our First Night Together 08:01
• 2 If You Know Me Any Longer Than Tomorrow 07:55
• 3 Love The Feelin' 04:44
• 4 I Get Crazy (When Your Eyes Touch Mine) 04:30
• 5 Doin' Everything With You 06:58
• 6 Main Squeeze 05:29
• Total Runtime 37:37

Info zu Main Squeeze (Remastered)

Main Squeeze is the twelfth studio album by jazz flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione. This album was only briefly released on Compact Disc and quickly discontinued, making it a rare find. It features one of Chuck Mangione's most popular songs, "Main Squeeze".

"More and more a creature of the studio, Mangione employs a coterie of '70s New York session players on an album that wears its make-out-music intentions right on its velvet sleeve. All of the titles reflect some aspect of a love affair; the playing is intricate but highly controlled and not terribly exciting. Oddly enough, Chuck effectively attaches a wah-wah pedal to his flugelhorn on a few tracks -- shades of Miles Davis' "jungle band" period -- and he gets off his best non-electronically modulated solo on "If You Know Me Any Longer Than Tomorrow." There are orchestrations, but the arrangements are just decorations, not an integral part of the material. But then, after all of the warm, fuzzy stuff has run its course for five tracks, the last cut "Main Squeeze" acts as an ecstatic release, a fine, funky jam session where all seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves." (Richard S. Ginell, AMG)

Chuck Mangione, flugelhorn, Fender Rhodes
Tony Levin, bass
Rubens Bassini, percussion
Steve Gadd, drums, percussion
Ralph MacDonald, percussion
Don Grolnick, acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes
Richard Tee, organ
John Tropea, electric & acoustic guitars
Bob Mann, electric & acoustic guitars
Gene Orloff, concertmaster
Bob Carlisle, french horn
Fred Griffen, french horn
Jimmy Buffington, french horn
John Clarke, french horn
Bill Watrous, trombone
David Taylor, trombone
Tom Malone, trombone
Wayne Andre, trombone
Alan Rubin, trumpet
Jeff Tkazyik, trumpet
Jon Faddis, trumpet
Lew Soloff, trumpet

Produced by Chuck Mangione

Digitally remastered

Chuck Mangione
has been chasing the clouds away with his music for more than five decades. He’s reached fans around the world with over 30 albums, striking gold and platinum in the process and earning him 13 Grammy nominations, winning two. His “Feels So Good” album became one of the most successful jazz records ever produced and millions of people heard Chuck perform “Give It All You Got” at the closing ceremonies of the1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.

From his early days playing trumpet with the Jazz Brothers and on through Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson and Art Blakey it was clear that with his creative talent the sky was the limit. As it turned out the sky wasn’t the limit when he blasted off on a Mercury mission called “Friends in Love.” It was his first time on a major record label (Mercury) and it earned him his first Grammy nomination. Just a few years later he would release one of his most popular albums, “Land of Make Believe,” making believers out of everyone with a second Grammy nomination.

Growing up in a home steeped in jazz, Chuck and his brother Gap would listen to their father’s jazz albums while other kids their age were listening to Elvis or Jerry Lee Louis. Their father encouraged the boys’ appreciation for jazz and would take them to Sunday afternoon matinees at jazz clubs around the city. It would not be uncommon for them to hear sets by Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins and Cannonball Adderly. Their father would invite these amazing artists to come home with them for a good home-cooked Italian meal. Of course, they were more than happy to eat home cooking after being on the road. Chuck grew up thinking everyone had Carmen McRae and Art Blakey over for dinner.

Mangione studied at the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1963 with a Bachelors degree in music education. He returned to Eastman in 1968 to direct the fledgling Eastman Jazz Ensemble and expand the school’s jazz programs until 1972.

In 2009 this humble flugelhorn player became a national treasure, figuratively and in fact. Chuck signed away a cache of his music memorabilia to The Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Among the items donated are his signature brown felt hat, scores to his most important works, photos and albums, and even an animation cell from the King Of The Hill TV cartoon series in which he plays himself promoting the discount home center Mega-Lo Mart.

To all his success Chuck has said, “If you’re honest and play with love, people will sit down and listen… my music is the sum of all I have experienced.”

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