 Gap Mangione, with his trademark smile. Gaspare "Gap" Mangione (born 1938[1]) is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Rochester, New York, United States. Image File history File links GapDirecting. ...
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1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ...
Pianist Claudio Arrau, Carnegie Hall, 1954. ...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
In music, an arrangement loosely describes rewriting a piece of pre-existing music for a specific set of instruments or voices, often in harmony or with additional original material. ...
A bandleader is the director of a band of musicians. ...
Nickname: The Flour City, The Flower City, The Worlds Image Center Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Location of Rochester in New York State Country United States State New York County Monroe Mayor Robert Duffy Area - City 37. ...
Born and raised in Rochester, Mangione's younger brother is Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione. Members of a music-loving family, both Gap and Chuck took up instruments. In 1958, they started performing together as the Jazz Brothers, eventually recording three albums for Riverside Records.[2] Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music...
A standard 3-valved Bb flugelhorn. ...
Chuck Mangione on his Feels So Good record album cover. ...
The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery, a 1960 Riverside release. ...
In 1968, Gap Mangione released his first solo album, Diana in the Autumn Wind, featuring drummer Steve Gadd and bassist Tony Levin in their first recordings.[3] More solo albums followed, along with tours (many as featured pianist with his brother's band) throughout the 1970s. Steve Gadd (born April 9, 1945 in Rochester, New York) is a very well known session drummer, mainly known for work with Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Joe Cocker, Bob James, Chick Corea, Eric Clapton and many others. ...
Tony Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an influential and prominent bass player. ...
The 1980s saw Mangione settle down more, spending more time playing in and around Rochester and less time on the road. In 1990, he formed the Gap Mangione Big Band, which remains the premiere dance and concert big band in the Rochester area. The Big Band has released four CDs since 1998. A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from 1935 until the late 1940s. ...
Today, Mangione continues to make regular appearances at Rochester locations such as the Lodge at Woodcliff and the Rochester International Jazz Festival, as well as private gigs; he can be found playing solo, with the 14-piece Big Band, or with a quartet or sextet subset of the band. Established in 2001, the Rochester International Jazz Festival takes place in June of each year, in Rochester, New York. ...
Mangione lives in the Rochester suburb of Greece, New York with his wife, Janet; his children are Ardis Mangione-Lindley and Jason Mangione.[4] Greece is a town located in Monroe County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 United States census, the town had a total population of 94,141. ...
Discography
The Salt City Six - Dixieland At The Roundtable, Salt City Six (1959)
The Jazz Brothers - The Jazz Brothers (1960)
- Hey Baby! (1961)
- Spring Fever (1961)
Solo - Diana in the Autumn Wind (1968) (CD release 2003)
- Sing Along Junk (1972)
- She and I
- Gap Mangione!
- Suite Lady
- Dancin' (1979)
With Chuck Mangione and Steve Gadd - The Boys From Rochester (1989)
The Big Band - Planet Gap (1998)
- Ardis (2002)
- Stolen Moments (2003)
- Family Holidays (2004)
Appears on - Friends and Love, Chuck Mangione and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (1970)
- Together, Chuck Mangione and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (1972)
- Land Of Make Believe, Chuck Mangione and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (1973)
- Bellavia, Chuck Mangione (1975)
- Chase the Clouds Away, Chuck Mangione (1975)
- Once I Loved, Esther Satterfield (1976)
- Tarantella, Chuck Mangione w/ Dizzy Gillespie & Steve Gadd (1980)
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Rochester, New York. ...
The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra is an Orchestra in Hamilton, Ontario. ...
John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ...
References 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ...
The Democrat and Chronicle is the primary daily newspaper that serves the Rochester, NY area. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ...
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