Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who lost two band members in a plane crash near Buffalo Feb. 12, invited other victims' families to his first concert in Buffalo since the crash.
Flute player Gerard Niewood and guitarist Coleman Mellett were among 50 people killed when Continental Flight 3407 crashed onto a house in the suburb of Clarence. They and Mangione were scheduled to play in Buffalo the next evening.
Mangione continues to mourn the loss of his beloved friends, Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, on his Web site.
"I'm in shock over the horrible, heartbreaking tragedy of the crash of Flight 3407 which took the lives of my dear friends and band members Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett," Mangione's homepage reads. "I am grieving and praying with their families and friends. That's all I can say for now."
The concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was postponed until Friday.
Mangione did not mention the crash during the show's first half.
He was expected to attend a post-concert fundraising party with victims' relatives and residents of the street where the plane went down. Proceeds will go to a Flight 3407 memorial fund.
Federal safety investigators said the flight data recorder from last month's air crash near Buffalo, N.Y., shows the plane's stall warning system had activated before the accident and that there were no mechanical problems found with the plane.
All 49 people aboard the plane and one man in the house died.
