Chuck Mangione, the jazz musician whose “Feels So Good” fell in love with the first pop table in the 1970s, died on Tuesday, officials said.
He was 84 years old.
Mangione died “peacefully” in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York, according to his Bill. The mayor of Rochester confirmed his death in a press release praising “the musician and composer of gifted jazz”. The official cause of the death of Mangione was not announced.
Born in 1940, Mangione grew up in Rochester, a graduate of the Benjamin Franklin high school before attending and winning a baccalaureate from the Eastman School of Music, also in Rochester.
According to the Bartolomeo & Perotto funeral homeMangione taught in Eastman and then received an honorary doctorate from the school. He also started the school’s jazz program.
Mangione launched his career as Flogelhorn adolescents when he formed the Jazz brothers alongside his brother, Gap, according to the Necrology. This led to a career of a decade which gave 14 nominations to the Grammy – and two victories – an enthronement of the Rochester Music Hall of Fame and more than 30 albums.
The mayor of Rochester, Malik D. Evans, described Mangione an artist “who obtained an international distinction, and the pride of Rochester”.
In 1970, Mangione recorded her concert “Friends & Love” with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, who won him a registration contract and, ultimately, his first nomination for Grammys, according to the Billology of the Funeral Fair. He released “Bellavia”, a record to honor his mother, during the first year, he signed with A&M Records, which won the prize for the best instrumental composition in the 19th Grammys.
Mangione’s biggest success, “Feel So Good”, reached Billboard Hot 100 n ° 4 in 1978 and earned him a record for the year at the 21st Grammy Awards, bringing the musician to new heights.
In an interview with Celebrity Cafe, Mangione partially credited the Bee Gees for the success of the song, Variety reported.
“I think” feeling so well “was such a success because of the Bee Gees,” said Mangione in the interview. “‘Saturday Night Fever’ had his saturated radio; I think the first six of L0 Hits came from this album. Radio programmers could not understand what to put in the place, and when someone edited` `feels so well ‘
Mangione also said that he wanted to have written “feels so well” in a different key “, because the high D is difficult to play”.
“I am happy to have written something that brought together millions of people,” he said.
In 1980, his song “Give It All You Got” was chosen as the theme song of the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid.
Later in her career, Mangione caught a role on the animated hit “King of the Hill”, playing himself as a celebrity launcher for the Mega Lo Mart fictitious.
Addressing Celebrity Cafe, Mangione has thought about reading the animated version of itself, according to Variety.
“Eight months before” King of the Hill “was on television, I received the script for them, describing my role of spokesperson for” Mega Lo Mart “. … My character would do things like playing” taps “and transformed directly into` `feels so good ”, which turned into a long-standing piece that has burst the character of Mangione in” moment.
“I thought that since they had played my music and for such a large audience, why not?” Mangione told Celebrity Cafe to play the role. “So I jumped into the studio in New York; they would call Los Angeles, then I would see something that looked like me on the television screen. Many people watch this show, so it’s a big exhibition.”
Mangione and his family were large parts of the Rochester jazz scene, according to Evans, the mayor, who said that Mangione and his brother “perfected their art forms in the legendary Pythodd Club de Rochester on Clarissa Street, where their family became a close friend of the Idire Gillespie.”
According to Variety, Mangione’s parents were friendly with many big jazz at the time, allowing Mangione to rub shoulders with Gillespie, Carmen McRae and Art Blakey. He then joined their group, Jazz Messengers, who propelled him into the dominant current of the genre.
In addition to their contributions to the culture of jazz in Rochester, “Chuck and his family embodied strength, resilience and compassion for which the inhabitants of Rochester are so known,” said Evans. The family had a grocery store in the northeast of Rochester.
“As the demographic and economic conditions of the district evolved, the Mangione family has remained attached to their customers and to the invaluable service that their store provided to the community”, according to Evans, which pointed out that the mangione grocery store opened every day for Racing riots This engulfed the city in July 1964. It was one of the few stores in the region that was not looted or burned during the riots, said Evans, “which testifies to admiration and mutual respect shared between the Mangione family and their community”.
“The many virtues of this education resonate deeply in the music that Chuck Mangione has composed and played on the world scene,” said Evans. “We, in Rochester, really have the chance to hear the underlying beauty of our city in these notes which will forever the heritage of Chuck Mangione.”
