I've been a big Chuck Mangiogne fan for many years. While he is well known, not all of his work is available on disc.

I just purchased a double album of his from the '70's entited "Friends and Love".

I used to listen to it all the time in high school and even wrote a play for its title song with the lead role to be played by a girl I was in love with.

So that's the newest member of my obscure music collection. Here's a brief writeup from Chuck's website:

Friends & Love... A Chuck Mangione Concert

Chuck Mangione was invited to conduct a Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra*
concert in May of 1970, and was given full rein of the affair. The result
is contained in this album - a concert which Chuck composed for a full
symphony orchestra and six superbly accomplished soloists, imaginatively
staged with special visual effects, and performed before a standing-room-only
crowd of over 3,500. This concert was videotaped by WXXI in Rochester, New York,
under grants from the Eastern Educational Television Network, the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, and the R. T. French Co.

Mangione's music is strongly rooted in the jazz idiom, but he is reluctant
to categorize his compositions: " 'Friends & Love was a gathering of
musicians from a variety of backgrounds, each one of whom contributed
to the whole. When the music is honest and full of love, labels aren't
important and people will listen with an open mind".

What obscure titles do you have?

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