Friends & Love...A Chuck Mangione Concert is a double album recorded live at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York on May 9, 1970, and released by Mercury Records. It features Chuck Mangione on flugelhorn; the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mangione; Don Potter; Bat McGrath; Gap Mangione; Stanley Watson; Marvin Stamm; Steve Gadd; and Gerry Niewood. Lyrics were written by Bat McGrath; orchestrations and arrangements were by Mangione.
Recorded by Grammy winning recording engineer Mick Guzauski.
Live Audio by renowned audio engineer Dick Zicari
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1971.
The album "blended jazz, rock, folk and classical elements." The first track, "Hill Where the Lord Hides", was subsequently released as a single and appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971.
Contents
Track listing
"Hill Where the Lord Hides" (7:12)
"The Feel of a Vision" (8:26)
"Songs from the Valley of the Nightingale" (6:51)
"And In the Beginning" (9:41)
"Friends & Love" (24:45)
"Friends & Love Encore" (5:52)
Personnel
Chuck Mangione - flugelhorn, conductor, arrangements, orchestration
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Don Potter - guitar, voice
Bat McGrath - guitarrón, voice
Gap Mangione - electric piano
Stanley Watson - guitar
Al Porcino, Marvin Stamm, Paul McRae, Richard F. Jones, Vincent DiMartino - trumpet
Chris Vadala, Larry Covelli - tenor saxophone
Gerry Niewood - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
Ned Corman - baritone saxophone, flute, alto flute
Steve Gadd - drums
Tony Levin - electric bass
Bill Cahn, Bob Becker - percussion
Eileen Malone - harp
Brad Warnaar, George Nemeth, Milan Yancich, Morris Secon - horns
Bill Reichenbach, David Richey, George J. Osborn, Tony Dechario - trombone
Edward De Matteo, Michael Leiter, Oscar Zimmermann, Robert Zimmermann - string bass
Hrant Tatian, Peter Wukovitz, Robert E. Taylor, Sylvia Thelen - cello