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Chuck Mangione —
American
Musician
born on November 29, 1940,
Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer... (wikipedia)
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.
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.
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.
Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.