Main Squeeze (Remastered) Chuck Mangione

• 1 (The Day After) Our First Night Together 08:01
• 2 If You Know Me Any Longer Than Tomorrow 07:55
• 3 Love The Feelin' 04:44
• 4 I Get Crazy (When Your Eyes Touch Mine) 04:30
• 5 Doin' Everything With You 06:58
• 6 Main Squeeze 05:29
• Total Runtime 37:37

Info for Main Squeeze (Remastered)

Main Squeeze is the twelfth studio album by jazz flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione. This album was only briefly released on Compact Disc and quickly discontinued, making it a rare find. It features one of Chuck Mangione's most popular songs, "Main Squeeze".

"More and more a creature of the studio, Mangione employs a coterie of '70s New York session players on an album that wears its make-out-music intentions right on its velvet sleeve. All of the titles reflect some aspect of a love affair; the playing is intricate but highly controlled and not terribly exciting. Oddly enough, Chuck effectively attaches a wah-wah pedal to his flugelhorn on a few tracks -- shades of Miles Davis' "jungle band" period -- and he gets off his best non-electronically modulated solo on "If You Know Me Any Longer Than Tomorrow." There are orchestrations, but the arrangements are just decorations, not an integral part of the material. But then, after all of the warm, fuzzy stuff has run its course for five tracks, the last cut "Main Squeeze" acts as an ecstatic release, a fine, funky jam session where all seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves." (Richard S. Ginell, AMG)

Chuck Mangione, flugelhorn, Fender Rhodes
Tony Levin, bass
Rubens Bassini, percussion
Steve Gadd, drums, percussion
Ralph MacDonald, percussion
Don Grolnick, acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes
Richard Tee, organ
John Tropea, electric & acoustic guitars
Bob Mann, electric & acoustic guitars
Gene Orloff, concertmaster
Bob Carlisle, french horn
Fred Griffen, french horn
Jimmy Buffington, french horn
John Clarke, french horn
Bill Watrous, trombone
David Taylor, trombone
Tom Malone, trombone
Wayne Andre, trombone
Alan Rubin, trumpet
Jeff Tkazyik, trumpet
Jon Faddis, trumpet
Lew Soloff, trumpet

Produced by Chuck Mangione

Digitally remastered

Chuck Mangione
Throughout the 1970s, Chuck Mangione was a celebrity. His purposely lightweight music was melodic pop that was upbeat, optimistic, and sometimes uplifting. Mangione's records were big sellers yet few of his fans from the era knew that his original goal was to be a bebopper. His father had often taken Chuck and his older brother Gap (a keyboardist) out to see jazz concerts, and Dizzy Gillespie was a family friend. While Chuck studied at the Eastman School, the two Mangiones co-led a bop quintet called the Jazz Brothers who recorded several albums for Jazzland, often with Sal Nistico on tenor. Chuck Mangione played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson (both in 1965) and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1965-1967). In 1968, now sticking mostly to his soft-toned flügelhorn, Mangione formed a quartet that also featured Gerry Niewood on tenor and soprano. They cut a fine set for Mercury in 1972, but otherwise Mangione's recordings in the '70s generally used large orchestras and vocalists (including Esther Satterfield), putting the emphasis on lightweight melodies such as "Hill Where the Lord Hides," "Land of Make Believe," "Chase the Clouds Away." and the huge 1977 hit (featuring guitarist Grant Geissman) "Feels So Good." After a recorded 1978 Hollywood Bowl concert that summed up his pop years and a 1980 two-LP set that alternated pop and bop (with guest Dizzy Gillespie), Mangione gradually faded out of the music scene. In the '70s, Chuck Mangione recorded for Mercury and A&M; in the '80s he had a couple of very forgettable Columbia albums, and had not been heard from in the '90s until a 1997 comeback tour found him in good form, having a reunion with his "Feels So Good" band. The Feeling's Back followed in 1999.

This album contains no booklet.