This week on the MCG Jazz Spotlight Show, MCG Jazz’s Marty Ashby reaches back to the rich trove of interviews from the stage of MCGJazz - featuring highlights from a visit with Tony Mowod from 1996 before a Sunday matinée - trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and bandleader Chuck Mangione.
Hear the complete interview with Tony Mowod and Chuck Mangione, here.
Chuck talks about his early years in upstate New York, including the band with his brother, Gap Mangione, which made a visit back in the late 50’s to Pittsburgh’s Crawford Grille.
Stories of jazz greats in the Mangione living room in New York, enjoying a family dinner of spaghetti, Chuck being recruited before he left high school by Pittsburgh’s Art Blakey - and later leaving the Eastman School of Music to Join the Jazz Messengers with a roster in the mid-60’s that included bassist Reggie Workman and pianist Keith Jarrett.
Then, the years of hits with Chuck Mangione’s own band - including massive hits like Chase the Clouds Away and Feels So Good.
Music and memories with Chuck Mangione from the stage of MCG Jazz - and on the radio in the MCG Jazz Spotlight. The MCG Jazz Spotlight on WZUM - Friday and Sunday nights at 6, and Saturday afternoon at 1.
Chuck Mangione, 1998
Marty Ashby
