Chuck Mangione - An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

Album: An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl Disc 1

Styles: Jazz, Easy Listening
Year: 1979
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:18
Size: 116,1 MB
Art: Front

(9:17)  1. Feels So Good
(6:37)  2. The XIth Commandment
(9:38)  3. Chase The Clouds Away
(5:26)  4. Hill Where The Lord Hides
(7:38)  5. Doin' Everything With You
(7:23)  6. Love The Feelin'
(4:15)  7. I Get Crazy

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Album: An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl  Disc 2

Time: 50:59

Size: 117,8 MB

(9:09)  1. Land Of Make Believe

(8:39)  2. Hide And Seek

(7:38)  3. The Day After (Our First Night Together)

(6:49)  4. Children Of Sanchez - Main Theme

(5:02)  5. B'Bye

(3:55)  6. Children Of Sanchez

(6:31)  7. Main Squeeze

(3:14)  8. Feels So Good

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 https://www.allmusic.com/album/an-evening-of-magic-live-at-the-hollywood-bowl-mw0000312055

Personnel: Producer, Composed By, Flugelhorn, Electric Piano, Conductor – Chuck Mangione; Performer – Chuck Mangione Quartet; Bass – Charles Meeks; Cello – Ron Leonard; Drums – James Bradley, Jr.; Flute, Piccolo Flute – Adah Mosello; French Horn – Jay Wadenpfuhl, Jerry Peel; Guitar [Classical], Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Grant Geissman; Saxophone, Flute – John Mitchell , Larry Covelli; Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Flute [Alto], Piccolo Flute – Chris Vadala; Trombone – Art Linsner, Keith O'Quinn, Richard Chamberlain ; Trumpet [Lead], Coordinator [Brass And Reed] – Jeff Tkazyik Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Frank Szabo, Jeff Kievit; Tuba – John Stevens 

An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

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