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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.
Chuck Mangione
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We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
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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 ten years.
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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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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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Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
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To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it.
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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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I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
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I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
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I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
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