Chuck Mangione discusses his connection with the city of Toronto.

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Chuck Mangione discusses the flugelhorn versus the trumpet.

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Chuck Mangione discusses travel.

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Q: “How much are you working now? I know you like to spend a fair amount of time with your family and at home and that; you don’t want to be 52 weeks a year on the road. What’s your schedule like these days?”

A: “Well, last year, I think it was insane as it could get. We're out about nine months out of a year and recording as well. Now, I'm trying to end. We're finally reaching the level where we can pick and choose a little more. Like where we are playing and when as opposed to the time when you are trying to get into certain areas and … Mow, I'm looking forward to blocking out periods of time and touring maybe a little more intensely where there are more one-nighters involved. Because there are fewer and fewer rooms where you can go and afford to work for a week in one particular place and then cooling it. You know, I mean just unplugging it for a minute, so that you have time to recharge your battery and to do a lot of the other things that you just need to do. If you take a look at the people who make the greatest money in the business like the rock artist, most of them … They're really tremendous business people because they look at it totally as a business, you know. And unfortunately, they make music in places where they shouldn't make music at all. But they go out and they probably do thirty days a year. They go and play in places that seat 10,000 to 80,000 people, so they reach their audience much quicker and just burn it out and then go out to pasture it again for ten months, you know. That's the other extreme, I think. You know, I don't ... I don't ... I still haven't gotten to the point where I could think about playing music at Rich Stadium and Buffalo for 80,000 people, although they want us to do that and our playing at Maple Leaf Garden as opposed to playing in Massey Hall, you know.”