Chuck Mangione, the jazz leader and a grammy winning musician who marked a higher success of the first five in 1978 with the instrumental jazz “Feel So Good”, died at 84, according to a note on his official website.
Born in Rochester, New York, on November 29, 1940, Mangione was early played and recorded as a mangione brothers with his “Gap” chief mangione. After graduating from the prestigious Eastman School of Music in his hometown, he played the trumpet with the famous conductor Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers as well as with various sets, including the recording of the album “Friends & Love… a concert by Chuck Mangione “with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970.
In this September 3, 1977, the file photo, the jazz musician Chuck Mangione is shown.
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Mangione’s notoriety increased with subsequent recordings of its compositions, including the 1975 RIAA certified gold album “Chase The Clouds Away”, the title track that was used in the cover of the 1976 summer Olympic Games, and the “Bellavia” winning in Grammys in 1977.
But it was the 1977 Mangione album “Feeles So Good” and his title of Radio Pop which made him a familiar name. With Mangione playing the Flogelhorn and supported by his longtime quartet of the guitarist Grant Geissman, bassist Charles Meeks, the multi-instrumentalist Chris Vadala and James Bradley Jr. On percussion, the single reached n ° 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles palace, while the album culminated on number 2 N ° 2 on the Billboard 200 Billboard. “Saturday Night Fever”, by the Bee Gees. “Feel so well” was ultimately at Riaa certified double platinum for sales of more than two million units.
Mangione’s follow -up albums included the 1978 soundtrack at the film Anthony Quinn “Children of Sanchez”, the title song that Mangione earned Mangione her second of the two Grammy Awards in career. “Fun and Games” from 1979, which was also certified Gold, presented the single “Give It All You Got”, which was used in ABC coverage of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games and marked two Grammy’s nominations; Mangione won 13 headlines, including her two victories.
Mangione recorded around thirty albums during her career, the last of which was the release in 2000 “Everything for Love”. Its general popularity decreased after its peak in the 1970s, but it remained a touch of well pop culture in the 2000s, sending its image with a recurring vocal role in the animated television comedy “King of the Hill”, playing an exaggerated version of itself when it appeared on the cover of the album “Feel So Good”.
In 2012, Mangione was inducted into the ROCHESTER MUSIC HALL OF FAMEWho quotes him as saying: “If you are honest and you play with love, people will sit and listen to … My music is the sum of everything I have experienced.”
