Friends and Love

Friends & Love...A Chuck Mangione Concert is a double album recorded live at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York on May 9, 1970, and released by Mercury Records. It features Chuck Mangione on flugelhorn; the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mangione; Don Potter; Bat McGrath; Gap Mangione; Stanley Watson; Marvin Stamm; Steve Gadd; and Gerry Niewood. Lyrics were written by Bat McGrath; orchestrations and arrangements were by Mangione.

Friends & Love
Live album by Chuck Mangione
Released	1970
Recorded	May 9, 1970
Venue	Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York
Genre	jazz
Label	Mercury
Chuck Mangione chronology
Spring Fever (1961) Friends & Love (1970) Together: A New Chuck Mangione Concert (1971)

Professional ratings

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AllMusic	[1]

Recorded by Grammy winning recording engineer Mick Guzauski.

Live Audio by renowned audio engineer Dick Zicari

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1971.^[2]

The album "blended jazz, rock, folk and classical elements."^[3] The first track, "Hill Where the Lord Hides", was subsequently released as a single and appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971.^[4]

Track listing

1. "Hill Where the Lord Hides" (7:12)
2. "The Feel of a Vision" (8:26)
3. "Songs from the Valley of the Nightingale" (6:51)
4. "And In the Beginning" (9:41)
5. "Friends & Love" (24:45)
6. "Friends & Love Encore" (5:52)

Personnel

• Chuck Mangione - flugelhorn, conductor, arrangements, orchestration
• Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
• Don Potter - guitar, voice
• Bat McGrath - guitarrón, voice
• Gap Mangione - electric piano
• Stanley Watson - guitar
• Al Porcino, Marvin Stamm, Paul McRae, Richard F. Jones, Vincent DiMartino - trumpet
• Chris Vadala, Larry Covelli - tenor saxophone
• Gerry Niewood - soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
• Ned Corman - baritone saxophone, flute, alto flute
• Steve Gadd - drums
• Tony Levin - electric bass
• Bill Cahn, Bob Becker - percussion
• Eileen Malone - harp
• Brad Warnaar, George Nemeth, Milan Yancich, Morris Secon - horns
• Bill Reichenbach, David Richey, George J. Osborn, Tony Dechario - trombone
• Edward De Matteo, Michael Leiter, Oscar Zimmermann, Robert Zimmermann - string bass
• Hrant Tatian, Peter Wukovitz, Robert E. Taylor, Sylvia Thelen - cello
• Michael Webster, Stanley Gaulke - clarinet
• Katherine T. Levy, Nancy Webster - flute
• Paul F. Philips, Stephen Paulson - bassoon
• Jonathan Parkes, Robert Sprenkle - oboe
• Cherry Beauregard - tuba
• John Beck - timpani
• Abram Boone, Harry Schatz, Herbert Brill, Judit M. Hradetzky, Lorene C. Field, Sharon Laird, Shirley Reynolds, Carol Tatian, Cynthia Hammer, Herman Surasky, Loraine Messick, Ralph Rozzi, Yong Ki Ahn - violin
• Alfred L. Drucker, Elizabeth Weiss, Herman Rudin, Minna Shklar, Thomas A. Dumm - viola