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.

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.

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

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