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Chuck Mangione was born Charles Frank Mangione on November 29, 1940 in Rochester, New York. He attended the Eastman School of Music from 1958 to 1963, afterwards joining Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, for which he filled the trumpet seat.
In the late 1960s, Mangione was a member of the band The National Gallery, then served as director of the Eastman jazz ensemble from 1968 to 1972, and during this time returned to recording with the album Friends and Love, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mangione’s quartet with saxophonist Gerry Niewood recorded “Bellavia” that won him a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition. His music has been used during two Olympics, performed at the closing ceremonies, and composed the soundtrack for The Children of Sanchez starring Anthony Quinn, winning his second Grammy Award.
Chuck composed and performed the theme for The Cannonball Run among other films. Proficient on both trumpet and flugelhorn, he has performed with a 70-piece orchestra, recorded his hit album Feels So Good, and has worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Gadd, and Chick Corea among other jazz luminaries.
Mangione, along with his brother Gap worked as the Jazz Brothers, recording three albums with Riverside Records. Later worked in one another’s band and orchestra. He has a recurring voice-acting role on the animated King of the Hill, and continues to perform and record with his current band.
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Gato Barbieri was born Leandro Barbieri on November 28, 1932 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina into a family of musicians. He began playing music after hearing Charlie Parker’s “Now’s the Time”, first playing the clarinet and later the alto saxophone while performing with his fellow countryman pianist Lalo Schifrin in the late 1950s.
By the early 1960s in Europe he worked with Don Cherry, became influenced by John Coltrane’s later recordings as well as free jazz saxophonists Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders. He developed a warm and gritty sound that became Gato’s trademark and by the late Sixties began fusing music from South America and contributed to Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra and Carla Bley’s Escalator Over The Hill.
Barbieri earned a Grammy for the score of Last Tango In Paris, which led to a recording deal with Impulse Records. By the mid-70s, he was recording for A&M Records and moved his music towards soul-jazz and jazz-pop with albums like “Caliente!” and “Ruby Ruby”. As a leader he has recorded some thirty albums and as a sideman has played and recorded another nine with Dollar Brand, Gary Burton, the Jazz Composers Orchestra among others. The saxophonist has received the UNICEF Award and continued to compose, perform and record until his passing on April 2, 2016 in New York City.
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Art Themen was born Arthur Edward George Themen on November 26, 1939 in Manchester, England. In 1958 he began his medical studies at the University of Cambridge, going on in 1961 to complete his studies at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, qualifying in 1964. He specialized in orthopedic medicine and eventually became a consultant.
Themen started playing saxophone with the Cambridge University Jazz Group, and then in London playing with blues musicians Jack Bruce and Alexis Korner. In 1965 he played with the Peter Stuyvesant Jazz Orchestra in Zurich, going on to play with such English luminaries as Michael Garrick and Graham Collier’s Music.
In 1974 Art entered into what was to be one of his central musical relationships when he started playing with Stan Tracey that took him throughout the United Kingdom and all over the world. He has also played and toured with musicians such as Nat Adderley, Ian Carr, George Coleman and Al Haig. In 1995 he formed a quartet with pianist John Critchinson.
Themen’s style originally owed much to the influence of Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins, but later influences included such disparate saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Evan Parker and John Coltrane.
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Serge Chaloff was born on November 24, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts to noted piano teachers, Margaret and Julius. He was among the few major jazz performers on his instrument, and until his arrival on the jazz scene the only prominent baritone player was Harry Carney of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Originally influenced by Charlie Parker, Serge became the first major bebop baritone saxophonist, opening the way for others to follow. He first became well known as one of the “Four Brothers” reed section in Woody Herman’s Second Herd. He also played with Boyd Raeburn, Georgie Auld, Jimmy Dorsey and Count Basie.
Recording as a leader Chaloff produced five records working with Stan Kenton, Sonny Clark, Leroy Vinnegar, Philly Joe Jones and the metronome All-Stars, however, his career was greatly limited by addiction to heroin. After successfully giving up drugs, baritone saxophonist Serge Chaloff developed cancer of the spine which caused his early death on July 16, 1957 at he young age of 33.
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From Broadway To 52nd Street
It was just seven days before the panic began leading to the crash an ambitious new musical appeared on October 17, 1929 on the stage of the Cosmopolitan Theatre by the title of Great Day. Music composed by Billy Rose and Vincent Youmans,however the show only experienced a run of only thirty-six performances due to the Crash, one good thing came out of the experience is the composition More Than You Know that went on to become a jazz standard.
The Story: Set in Louisiana on the Randolph Plantation, the Spanish Casino, the Mississippi river and the Levee.
Broadway History: By 1929 as the Roaring Twenties was coming to a close, the country was still reeling in widespread euphoria during this period of peace and great prosperity fueled by increased industrialization and new technologies, such as the radio, the automobile, even had air flight becoming widespread. Millionaires were made overnight as they mortgaged homes and sank life savings into hot stocks like Ford and RCA. Little did they know what lied beneath the horizon. The Fed had raised interest rates several times to cool down the overheated stock market and on October 24th panic selling occurred as investors realized the stock boom had been an over-inflated bubble. Millionaire margin investors were decimated and became bankrupt immediately as the stock market crashed on October 28th and 29th.
At the end of 1929, sixteen billion dollars had been shaved off stock capitalization, 140 billion of depositor money disappeared and 10,000 banks failed ushering in the Great Depression that would last till the mid 1930’s. Though the country would suffer financially, Broadway still mounted plays and entertained audiences.
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