Gap Mangione Diana In The Autumn Wind

• Gap Mangione – Boy With Toys
• Gap Mangione – Diana In The Autumn Wind
• Gap Mangione – Long Hair Soulful
• Gap Mangione – Yesterday
• Gap Mangione – The XIth Commandment
• Gap Mangione – St Thomas
• Gap Mangione – You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
• Gap Mangione – Pond With Swans
• Gap Mangione – You Are My Sunshine
• Gap Mangione – Free Again
• Gap Mangione – Dream On Little Dreamer
• Gap Mangione – Graduate Medley

• 1. Boy With Toys
• 2. Diana In The Autumn Wind
• 3. Long Hair Soulful
• 4. Yesterday
• 5. The XIth Commandment
• 6. St Thomas
• 7. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
• 8. Pond With Swans
• 9. You Are My Sunshine
• 10. Free Again
• 11. Dream On Little Dreamer
• 12. Graduate Medley

Recorded at the end of the 60s, Gap Mangione's trio session sits in that fertile zone where jazz musicians began absorbing funk, rock and studio orchestration without losing the improvisational spark at the music's core. The presence of a young Tony Levin on bass and Steve Gadd on drums gives the record remarkable rhythmic muscle, their playing snapping and breathing beneath Mangione's exuberant keyboard lines. 'Boy With Toys' bursts open with swaggering horns and nimble organ figures, the arrangement brimming with restless energy. The title track drifts into something more lyrical, flutes and electric piano weaving an intoxicating melodic haze. Later, 'Pond With Swans' sinks into dusky introspection, its sombre opening dissolving into a quietly majestic groove.