Chuck Mangione, the leader of the Grammy -winning jazz band and a musician who obtained an unlikely success among the top five in 1978 with the jazz instruments “feels so good,” he died at age 84, according to a note about his Official website.
Born in Rochester, New York, on November 29, 1940, Mangione from the beginning was performed and recorded as the Mangione brothers with his brother and keyboardist Gaspare “Gap” Mangione. After graduating from the prestigious Eastman School of Music in his hometown, he played the trumpet with the famous leader of the Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers band, as well as with several other sets, including the recording of the album “Friends” & Love … A Chuck Mangione concert “with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970.
In this photo of September 3, 1977, the Jazz musician Chuck Mangione is shown.
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Mangione’s notoriety grew with the subsequent recordings of his compositions, including the Golden album certified by Riaa of 1975 “Chase the Clouds Away”, whose main song was used in the coverage of the Summer Olympic Games of 1976 and the “Bellavia” Grammy winner in 1977.
But it was Mangione’s 1977 album “Feele So So Good” and his success of the pop radio title made him a family name. Featuring Mangione Playing The Flelhorn and Backed by His Longtime Quartet of Guitarist Grant Geissman, Bassist Charles Meeks, Multi-Instrumentalist Chris Vadala and James Bradley Jr. On Percussion, The Single Reacto No. 4 on The Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, While The Album Peake Peake Peake In The No. Position on The All-Genre Billboard 200 Albums Chart-Second Only to the Soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever,” For the Bee Gees. “It feels so good,” ultimately was Riaa’s double platinum for sales of more than two million units.
Mangione’s follow -up albums included the 1978 gold sale soundtrack to the Anthony Quinn movie “Children of Sanchez”, the main song that earned Mangione his second of two Grammy Carrera Awards. “Fun and Games” of 1979, which was also certified Gold, presented the single “Give It All You Got”, which was used in the ABC coverage of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games and obtained two Grammy nominations; Mangione won 13 grammy nods for life, including his two victories.
Mangione recorded about 30 albums during his career, the last of which was the launch of 2000 “Everything for Love”. Its general popularity decreased after its apogee of the 1970s, but remained a touch of pop culture that well in the 2000s, sending its image with a recurrent voice role in the animated television comedy “King of the Hill”, interpreting an exaggerated version of itself when it appeared on the cover of the album “feels so good.”
