🎵 AotW AOTW: Gap Mangione - Gap Mangione! (SP-4621)

[Captain Bacardi]

Gap Mangione
GAP MANGIONE!
A&M SP-4621

Released 1976

Format: Vinyl/Cassette/8-Track

Produced by Gap Mangione
Executive Producer: Chuck Mangione
Musical Coordinator/Production Assistance: Steve Gadd

Songs:

• 1. Theme From "Picnic" (G.W. Duning) - 4:17
  2. "The Graduate" Medley[list:b392bb566c]a. Scarborough Fair/Canticle (P. Simon/A. Garfunkel) - 1:21
  b. The Sound Of Silemce (P. Simon) - 1:42
  c. Mrs. Robinson (P. Simon) - 3:43

3. Laughter In The Rain (N. Sedaka/P. Cody) - 4:26
4. Little Lady, Little Man (G. Mangione) - 1:29
5. Hill Where The Lord Hides (C. Mangione) - 5:45
6. Legacy (Main Theme) (C. Mangione) - 5:08
7. I Won't Last A Day Without You (P. Williams/R. Nichols) - 6:36[/list:u:b392bb566c]

Musicians:
Gap Mangione - Rhodes Electric Piano, Acoustic Piano, Hammond Organ and ARP Soloist Synthesizer (trombone and flute sounds)
Tony Levin - Electric Bass and Stick
Steve Gadd - Drums and Percussion
Rubens Bassini - Percussion

Recorded and Mixed September, 1976 at: Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, P.C.I. Studios, Rochester, New York and A&M Recording Studios, Hollywood, California
Engineered by Mick Guzauski
Mastered at A&M Studios, Hollywood California
Mastering Engineer: Frank DeLuna

Art Direction: Roland Young
Design: Phil Shima
Photography: Harry Mittman
Painting and Calligraphy: Brian Hagiwara

This album is dedicated to Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, a beautiful man and a friend, who gave Chuck and me our FIRST record date.


Capt. Bacardi

 

[Jay Maynes/Juan Oskar]

This was a great album. I've looked for it on CD and have never found it. About 1978 and 1979 Gap would play a club here in Phoenix and he would do a lot of the material from this record.

later........Jay

 

[Dave]

The "small group" of musicians make "BIG SOUND"! Wonder what recording studios were used for what songs?? (...Or parts of songs???) The "Little Lady, Little Man" are Jason & Ardis, Gap's kids; not the song Bobby Sherman and Claudine Longet recorded and Sherman had the hit with... Tony Levin's Stick makes bass and guitar sounds--eliminating the need for one instrument, and the first album he used it on, as Gap was the first artist he recorded with! I had this album Still-Sealed and even recorded, what I think is a romantic version of "Moonglow/Theme From PICNIC" on a cassette to play in the car...(for a trip I never went on with my ex-...!) "Hill Where The Lord Hides" is a CHUCK Mangione composition (as is "LEGACY (Main Theme)", I think from a movie); Gap was known to, at times, sneak in his "Brother's Tunes"! "I Won't Last A Day Without You" (done rather cheerfully here) was recorded a year earlier by Herbie Mann, which also featured Rubens, Tony & Steve... And one of the best remakes of "Laughter In The Rain"! (...It made Neil Sedaka proud!) "THE GRADUATE Medley" ranged from moving to just inspiring; sure is easier to do a bit of each of these three songs, rather than an ENTIRE Simon & Garfunkel catalog, which would've used up an ENTIRE album! (And which I think The Band even considered...) Good EZ-Listening Jazz which proves that Fusion (If you would really even call this, that...) doesn't always have to "Rock Out"!! But along with it, a sound that is basically unchallenging and an obvious tendency to which you can hear these guys "Playing It Safe", compared to their first album, where they DID take a few risks and did make the songs a bit more daring! Here again, they played it TOO Safe! :|

(I'm sure I must'a given this LP ****--4-Stars, too!) :goofygrin:

Dave

 

[Captain Bacardi]

What a horrendous album to listen to. This reminds me of some cheesy lounge act. "The Graduate" Medley was ho-hum, and I thought "Laughter In The Rain" was sooooo predictable and lame. The only thing that was close to being interesting was "Hill Where The Lord Hides". While Mangione had a good idea, he just didn't execute it well. Instead of using a real trombone player he did the ARP synth instead, which points to the real problem. Gap Mangione is not a good soloist. I've never heard him do much with a solo, even back in the old Mangione Brothers days of the 60's. This record is so lifeless, no warmth, no fire. Even with a great rhythm section this does nothing. Wake me when it's over, so I can give it a generous 2 stars, but only because I'm still in the holiday spirit!



Capt. Bacardi