| Friends & Love | ||||
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| Live album by Chuck Mangione | ||||
| Released | 1970 | |||
| Genre | jazz | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
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Friends & Love...A Chuck Mangione Concert is a double album recorded live at the Eastman Theater 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; and Gerry Niewood. Lyrics were written by Bat McGrath; orchestrations and arrangements were by Mangione. 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.