WBFO to Co-Sponsor Chuck Mangione Performance

By Mary Beth Spina

Release Date: October 23, 1996 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Internationally known jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione and the Chuck Mangione Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7, in Williamsville South High School, 5950 Main St., Williamsville.

The concert will be sponsored by the Williamsville Music Boosters; WBFO 88.7 FM, the National Public Radio affiliate operated by the University at Buffalo, and WSJZ-FM.

Also featured will be the Williamsville East, North and South High School jazz ensembles.

Tickets are $15 each and are available at the door; at J & E Instrument Service, 8030 Roll Road, East Amherst, and at Al Hemer Music Corporation, 4190 N. Buffalo St., Orchard Park. Proceeds will benefit scholarships and instructional music programs sponsored by the Williamsville Music Boosters at the three Williamsville high schools and middle schools.

Mangione, a Grammy-Award winner who took a hiatus from his busy schedule in 1989, returned to the music and recording scene in 1994.

A Rochester resident, Mangione has established a $1 million endowment fund at the Rochester School of the Arts in honor of his father and in memory of the late jazz great Dizzy Gillespie, who he calls his "musical father."