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Recorded at the height of Chuck Mangione's fame when "Feels So Good" was still busting up the charts, this double-LP set attempts to recapture the dynamism of his earlier live albums but falls short on a few counts. For one thing, the sound gives the listener no idea of what it was like to be in the audience that evening; there are only fleeting traces of the live presence and electricity of the event in this tightly mic'ed recording. For another, the sense of fresh discovery of a new voice in the Mercury sets is replaced by a mostly self-congratulatory round of reprises from earlier albums, centered in the jazz-funk idiom of Mangione's then-current quintet (the funkified "Hill Where the Lord Hides" in particular lacks the majesty and tension of the original live version). Mangione and his sidemen (Chris Vadala, winds; Grant Geissman, guitars; Charles Meeks, bass; James Bradley, Jr., drums) are sufficiently pumped up and energetic, sometimes outdoing the studio performances of the material, and there is a 70-piece orchestra of L.A. musicians who mostly form part of the scenery. The only "new" stuff (as of July 1978) is a set of excerpts from the film score to Children of Sanchez -- a heavily truncated selection from what was heard that night -- that comes off pretty well. Of the two live Mangione A&M albums, this one is a more accurate career retrospective, but Tarantella is quirkier and thus more fun.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
DISC 2
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 UMG Recordings, Inc.
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Composer, Producer, MainArtist - Bill Reichenbach, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
MICK GUZAUSKI, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Mangione, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Larry Swist, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1978 A&M Records
Albumbeschreibung
Recorded at the height of Chuck Mangione's fame when "Feels So Good" was still busting up the charts, this double-LP set attempts to recapture the dynamism of his earlier live albums but falls short on a few counts. For one thing, the sound gives the listener no idea of what it was like to be in the audience that evening; there are only fleeting traces of the live presence and electricity of the event in this tightly mic'ed recording. For another, the sense of fresh discovery of a new voice in the Mercury sets is replaced by a mostly self-congratulatory round of reprises from earlier albums, centered in the jazz-funk idiom of Mangione's then-current quintet (the funkified "Hill Where the Lord Hides" in particular lacks the majesty and tension of the original live version). Mangione and his sidemen (Chris Vadala, winds; Grant Geissman, guitars; Charles Meeks, bass; James Bradley, Jr., drums) are sufficiently pumped up and energetic, sometimes outdoing the studio performances of the material, and there is a 70-piece orchestra of L.A. musicians who mostly form part of the scenery. The only "new" stuff (as of July 1978) is a set of excerpts from the film score to Children of Sanchez -- a heavily truncated selection from what was heard that night -- that comes off pretty well. Of the two live Mangione A&M albums, this one is a more accurate career retrospective, but Tarantella is quirkier and thus more fun.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:41:14
- Main artists: Chuck Mangione
- Composer: Chuck Mangione
- Label: Hip-O (UC)
- Genre: Jazz
© 1999 A&M Records ℗ 1979 A&M Records
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