Chuck Mangione - Hill Where The Lord Hides - from FRIENDS and LOVE 

I play with him when I was a musician in the Navy. My greatest thrill was meeting Chris Vadala.

I was in this audience. Chuck was my brother's trumpet teacher until 1969 and my entire family attended this concert. Also starring Tony Levin, Steve Gadd, Bat McGrath, Don Potter, Stanley Watson and Gap Mangione.

When you come from Rochester NY and Chuck Mangione's orchestra plays your high school senior ball. Yeah, that was living large 1971.

One of the greatest musical arrangements ever.

I can't possibly tell you how much this means to me.I grew up in Ithaca,n.y. and had privilidge of seeing and studying with some of these muscians.My record is almost unplayable as it has lasted almost 40 years.For those of us that lived in upstate .n.y. in the 70's and 80's, this album is a source of pride.There is and was incredible music being played in Ithaca,Rochester,Syracuse,Buffalo,Elmira,Utica,etc.thank you for sharing

This song and this style of music can me described in one word: timeless. A young Steve Gadd, fresh out of the military and headed into a legendary career. Chuck was King.

So many days coming home from school and Mom is blasting this album.. Thanks Mom!!

52 years ago? Not possible! But it will live on in the annals of great music. Mangione is a genius.

When music was truly music. One of Mangione's masterpieces.

Legendary album! My mum and dad used to play it to me a lot when I was a child in the early 70's. I just wish that Universal Music would re-issue it on CD as well as download for the younger generations who are getting into Chuck's music.

This came out when i was a senior in high school, when all young musicians I knew at the time were conditioned to think that musical validity began & ended with Hendrix and Zepplin..Then this guy shows up playing a horn no one recognized in front of a symphony orchestra & proceeds to create a musical nuclear detonation---Heard on top forty radio!!...CM handed a new generation a set of new musical concepts that were unprecidented for the time.

The best song ever. It still gives me goose bumps everytime I hear it. Thanks Mr. Mangione for a true experience in music. You are the best thing to ever come out of Rochester, New York.

I know age has nothing to do with genius but chuck was just about 30 years young when he conducted this phenomenal piece in 1970 & that’s why till today, arguably, America is one of the greatest nations when it comes to producing music where the standards of excellence is at its highest … Steve gadd, Gerry Niewood, Tony Levin, Bat McGrath, Don Potter, Stanley Watson, Gap Mangione & the whole Rochester Philharmonic… phenomenal ….

After this came out, if you were in drum and bugle corps, you had to play this, or your show was nothing to talk about! This arrangement is so crisp, so clean, man, it doesn't get done like this anymore! Chuck is a genius!

I've been a huge fan of this tune for decades and just discovered this video for the first time. I couldn't love it more. Thank you so much for sharing it.

Another holiday, this time THANKSGIVING 2015, and Chuck and his friends and family still fill the house. I am the son of Nanette, one of the Merlino sisters that grew up with Chuck and Gap in Rochester, NY. And just as Mom brought this music into my house growing up, I now bring it into the hearts, soul, and lives of my own children today. Timeless. Thank you.

The Mangione Quartet + Philharmonic concerts on PBS transformed me from a kid digging rock to a young bass player wanting to transcribe all the cool parts on the first record.

Growing up in Rochester, NY I had the privilege of not only listening to this great music, but also playing with some of these fantastic musicians. A percussionist since 4 years old, I loved the local scene and as I got older was able to jam out in places around the city. To this day, some 50 years later, I still have fond memories of these days. Bless those who are still with us! ~ John Guchone

I want to live on the hill where the Lord hides.

I love how Chuck swings that entire aggregation, especially near the end. Great great music beyond the categories as Duke would say. Gerry Niewood was always great on soprano. Amazing, reading the comments, to see how many people were touched by this piece, which is truly for the ages.

This was most definitely a Kodak moment, given the Rochester Philharmonia Orchestra, the venue, and the film effects.

I played the drums in a huge Disco back in the 70's and we opened every night with this masterpiece. I have very fond memories of my attempts to emulate the great, Steve Gadd.

First Time I heard this was mid 70s at Ontario Place in Toronto. (Just across Lake Ontario from Rochester)They had a new-for-its-time, a 16-channel recording played back on a custom 16 channel tape machine that was somehow interlocked in-sync to the large wrap-around film picture screen. I was really impressed! I know they were using data recorders at the time for a high track count and Cinerama and Todd-AO had used multiple 35MM Magnetic "sprocket" machines but this was all new to me at the time. And having the sound follow the action on the screen was cool. And I'll never forget THIS MUSIC TRACK played in this format! I still luv it. Chuck's best!

Fall of 1971, I had just started my first year at RIT in Rochester, NY, being a trumpet player myself, and the college brought in Chuck and his quartet for a concert, what a treat!

Great piece. I was 16, driving through country of Washington state with Mount Rainier in the windshield and hooked on rock, Led Zep, The Who. And this song came on KJR radio out of Seattle. They never played jazz. It nearly had me in tears, mainlined right into my soul. Music doesn't quite do that to me. I've never forgotten. Bought a lot of his vinyl. This morning I had a dream, a girl was asking me about the best jazz music and I told her, in my dream, Hill Where the Lord Hides, Chuck Mangione. Why would I dream that after all these years? Got up before making coffee and found it here on You Tube. Feels so good.

When this concert happened I was in 8th grade , my music teachers (Fairport Schools) were Eastman School of Music grads, so we would go there and perform sometimes. So happens we were there at the time this concert was in rehearsals , one of my teachers saw Chuck and brought him by to conduct our select band on a couple of numbers, Very, Very Cool ! we all thought we were the luckiest kids on the planet !! This album was a staple in most Upstate NY households, it's no wonder. In 2013 or 14 they did a reunion concert of this show, same cast , same fantastic show, wish both could be available , for all to listen to and enjoy, thanks to all who made this great music !

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The late, great Gerry Niewood and a very young Steve Gadd! What an amazing concert!

This song meant a lot a young musician from the Buffalo area...not too many people remeber Chuck's early years. To me they were his best... I have searched far and wide for this copy of Hill Where the Lord Hides...its his best one

I love the orchestrations for this piece. I first found out about Chuck Mangione in 1974 when someone in my college dorm was playing The Land of Make Believe album. I was instantly hooked. Saw him perform in Central Park when they used to hold concerts at the Wolman Rink. Esther Satterfield sang. What an awesome experience. When Feels So Good came out even my mom got into his music.

can't play this enough on my hifi at home, work, car, ect.... if anyone turns up thier nose to a performance like this, then you are not human.

When I was maybe 13 and starting to play drums, I heard this song on the radio and it immediately grabbed me and I said “ I don’t know who the drummer is, but he played what I felt in my heart. Years later, I discovered my teacher and his instructor at Eastman were good friends: it was Steve Gadd fresh out of the army. Side note…my High School music teacher knew Jerry Niewood very well. Was a small world but such a hot bed for music in western NY.

I had this album way back in the 70s! We used to listen to the radio at night when we were supposed to be asleep on school nights, back when radio DJ's had actual personalities. This was one of my favorites and even though I owned a copy of the LP, I always listened to the whole thing when the late-night DJ's played it. I miss those nights, it's wonderful to hear the music again.😊

My husband and I were at this concert…memorable! A once in a lifetime experience…

The ending is absolutely orgasmic!!! I love how the flute player looks like she might explode in delight!!!!! To have been playing that night would have been an unforgettable experience!!!

God, I really loved Gerry Niewood on Soprano Saxophone! I was just totally "blown away" even as a 10 Year Old child way back in the day! It is how a Soprano Sax is truly supposed to sound like! Sadly, he was of those killed in that horrific plane crash in Western New York a number of years ago.

what an Orchestrator...besides a brlliant solo flugelhorn player, beautiful melodies from a beautiful soul...melodies from heaven for us on earth through chuck mangione and the musicians...

Haven't heard this since the late 70's. So many memories flooding back....

My parents introduced me to this. One of many things I'm grateful for👍👍

Miss you Chuck! Thank you for the memories.

I feel so lucky to know this music. It has affected me, my life . . . . brought me such pleasure, such hope. It's deep within my New York core.

Discovered Chuck's music in the mid-1970s. Who can forget Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor, Bellavia etc

I've listened to this performance for forty years...this is the first time i've seen the video...awesome...

I love this, I always have. This song was literally in my dreams in the early 70's when I was a young teen. It was a recurring dream of driving fast in the mountains with the wind in my hair and this music playing. I do not recall having ever heard it before the dream, but I must have, somehow. Later I actually did hear it on the radio one evening, and as it turned out, I was driving fast on this big hill on this winding road, and all my windows were open. Talk about De Ja Vu! I had to stop the car! I was so blown away. Many years later I talked someone into doing a cover of it on his album. But as awesome as that turned out, nothing is as amazing as this original piece. Thank you Chuck Mangione

I am from Rochester, NY and Chuck is the biggest "hometown boy makes good" story my hometown has had since Mitch Miller. And it all started with this song from the massively successful local hit album "Friends and Love." I remember the 45 RPM single of the song being the #1 hit in Rochester on most radio stations. Seven years later, "Feels So Good" came out and confirmed what we "Rochesterians" knew all along.

How can anybody not appreciate this! July 9 2019! What a talent! 10 stars! I’m lucky to own the vinyl and my sweer brother bought me this from Amazon! Love you, Dave! Play that Flugelhorn, Chuck!

Don Potter still blows me away with his playing and singing!!!

I drove a little Fahrvergnugen that had no air conditioning so I drove all over Dallas with my windows down blaring this song 🎶 everywhere I went. My parents just passed away and I came across my(worn out) album. I had bought a different recording which, of course, is good. Just slightly different. I haven’t unpacked my album yet but I sure hope it didn’t get left behind. Three seconds into this recording made my heart ❤️ skip a beat. I was never a “groupie” but oh! That song….

The great and MAGICAL Gerry Niewood. Discovering him remains very special to me. I was, maybe, 13-14 years old when I purchased the double lp, 'Friends and Love'. I've heard the soprano played by many musician at that point, but never experienced the instrument utilized in arrangements like Chucks..I'm almost 60 and I still can hum most of his more popular solos when with Mangione-- including that beautiful solo on 'Joy' when he was with Time Piece. R.I.P. , sir. What a rare treat this video is! I can sing/hum almost every single note on the entire 'Best of Mangione' double album-- including the 20+ minute 'Friends in Love' arrangement. Great to FINALLY see footage from the ACTUAL concert! Also, RIP to the great Bat McGrath. He and Don Potter really pulled the heart-strings on this particular project.

I was there at Eastman Theater when this was recorded. It was a phenomenal concert!

I first heard this piece as an into to the news on a popular AM radio station in Fort Worth, Texas. Well I was dating the DJ's daughter, and she was in the car with me. Although I will never regret being tuned in that day. BLEW ME AWAY!!!! I called the station and dropped the appropriate name to find out what that outrageous piece of music was. Not your normal 1971 AM music fare. I was instantly addicted. Stave Gadd is such a monster!

. . . and after all these years, still beautiful, soul lifting, orgasmic!

AWESOMENESS PERSONIFIED!!!!!!!!

I wish iTunes would offer this version for sale. I recall the thrill of watching this on PBS when it happened in 1970. I have the vinyl, still, however I would love to play this in my car. This version of "Hill Where The Lord Hides" should be available to all. Wonderful!

My oldest brother introduced me to Chuck Mangione when I was probably 16 years old. that was back in 1979 or 80. I have seen him twice in my life. Once at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and one at the House of Blues in Las Vegas Nevada. I wouldn't trade one second of either concert. Although, most of my friends and family around me would not ever understand that. Being a country music drummer, most of my learning was from his "Records and Cassettes"...lol

My old high school band director conducted like Chuck. My sophomore year we performed Land of Make Believe as part of a marching piece and it was quite the challenge. Thanks for the wonderful music Mr. Mangione and thanks for the memories Mr. P.

Hill Where The Lord Hides is a beautiful piece of music from Chuck Mangione. It is a healing piece of music.Hey Chuck did you know you are a doctor? Yes man!

The best sop solo ever rip Gerry

We had this when I was a junior in High School, I bought the Album "Friends and Love" at the end of the concert and had the band members all sign it. I didn't have to beg my parents for the $15 to get it either, so it must have been in the '72 to '73 range when I had a job. The Band did some recording at our school, we weren't allowed to bring any recorders or cameras to the concert. That burned me up because there was no way to record this event in our yearbooks, or in personal collections. But it was a great concert. Not on the order of Woodstock 1and 2 or James Taylor or the Dead concert I attended, but not bad. I have since abandoned NY State because it became a cultural sinkhole or "dead space" for decent bands in the 80's and 90's! I am a hopeless "rocker" with no reason to change.

Bravo..

Steve Gadd on drums, Don Potter on guitar and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. With Additional Personnel: GERRY NIEWOOD soprano and alto saxophone, flute Al Porcino: Trumpet Larry Covelli: Tenor Sax Tony Levin: Electric Bass Bill Reichenbach: Trombone Ned Corman:\tab Flute, Alto Flute, Baritone Saxophone Vincent Di Martino: Trumpet Robert Becker: Percussion Chris Vadala: Tenor Saxophone MARVIN STAMM trumpet

FOR CORONA VIRUS...........be well everyone in 2020 and beyond. GOD have mercy on your people everywhere.........

I attended the concert Chuck put together with the Rochester Philharmonic in 1969, "Kaleidoscope". My reason for going? My drum teacher, Vinnie Ruggiero, was Chuck's drummer in his local gig at the time, The Chuck Mangione Quartet. Vinnie was on the drumset for the performance "Kaleidoscope" was a musical success; it wasn't a financial one. However, it served as the springboard for "Friends & Love" . That concert launched Chuck into the national spotlight with a Grammy nomination for "Hill Where The Lord Hides".

Always a great tune Chuck

The Live at the Hollywood Bowl album was epic, not a note was missed live on stage....pure musical perfection, especially this song

I was at this concert!!!!! Loved it then and love it now!!!!

Yeah, that soprano saxophone solo is one kick as* solo ! He's grooving & into it as well. Chuck & every musician in this is kicking butt !

Awesome performance !!!!!!!!!!

The song of my life!

Got a chance to see Chuck a couple of times. Still love his music. Played live at the Hollywood Bowl about 2 million times.

This song just keeps popping into my feed every few days, and I just have to listen to it yet again. The dynamics are massive. The last 3 minutes are almost orgasmic!!!!!!

When I Hear Chuck Mangione, I think Of Radio Power ROCHESTER NYs WHAM RADIO 1180 and the Late Great Radio host of “MUSIC FOR A SUNDAY AFTERNOON” BILL GIVENS!!

The man Chuck is a master of dynamics!!!!

Cannot count the number of time I listened to this on my way to and from my Analyst---that is before he died on me. And I live on and so does my love for this music. So glad i now have You Tube to fill my heart with joy!!! Wow are they great or what!!!!

I just love the "living hell" out of Gerry Niewood's Soprano Saxophone Solo in this composition...and I always have every since my late Dad brought it home back in the 1970s.

Ça s est de la musique. Du pur génie. Merci

What a video! A legitimate blessing to the universe this performance was captured on film for us to see

They certainly had a top drummer. That's Steve Gadd! Awesome.

Great concert.

Dang, I was only 9 years old at the time. Not even aware of this music or the man. But his music is timeless. I heard about him from a college freshman year roomate from Rochester, New York, where Chuck was a music student at Eastman Conservatory of Music.

Powepacked concert wish I could have been there wow

FABULIUS!!

G e n i a l...!!!!!!

My French horn teacher, Milan Yancich, is playing 4th horn on this concert.

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Yup. Was at this concert. WOW.

Great 👍 Performance

Boy does this bring back meories

Add this to the "Real Music Hall of Fame."

As Chuck would introduce this song saying and now we're gonna play a song that helped us get out of Rochester New York once in a while

HI CHUCK SURE MISS THE OLDEN DAYS WHEN YOU PLAYED WITH GAP AND MARION MCPARTLAND. THINKING BACK TO MY FATHER WHO WAS FRIENDS WITH YOUR COUSIN JERRY. I WILL FOLLOW MORE CLOSSELY JOYCE LEVENBERG

Chuck Mangione - one of the coolest ever, huh?!!! Thank you so much!!

Cass and I were there. What a performance! Stylistically, so new and fresh, what we today might call "Concert Jazz."

Thank you so much for the posting. For 42 years I had wondered if Steve Gadd had done the drums on this recording or Joey LaBarbara whom I had seen on a PBS broadcast in Buffalo, NY. Now I can rest. Many don't realize that this was a defining moment in contemporary "jazz." Thank you again, you have done a great service esp. to the western NY musicians.

Saw this on PBS...had never heard of him. My life has never been the same since!

Awesome display of music. I listen to this every day.

I remember when Don Potter and Bat McGrath had their place up on Ridge Rd. They encouraged people to bring their instruments and jam with them. I dragged my bass guitar and ended up on stage with the Mangione's, Gerry Niewood, and Tony Levin ( bassist in King Crimson and a million others) I just talked to Tony a few weeks ago when he played here with his brother, Pete. I was totally thrilled and felt so lucky. I'm 70 now, and I recall that night like it was yesterday. I eventually gave up the bass, but not my love of the music and the people I met.

I was 16 in 1971 when I first heard this incredible song. I ordered the album at 'Sound Spectrum' in Laguna Beach, CA. It took them almost a year to get it. By then I had forgotten what this song sounded like. The old Jerry Garcia look-alike decided to just gift it to me. When I got home, I quickly remembered what excited me in the 1st place. A young Rock and Roller learned a new musical genre! Bravo Chuck

I was there!

Chuck Mangione and the RPO, how could you miss? Knew both Chuck and Gap at Ben Franklin High.