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Jazz legend Chuck Mangione dies aged 84
Mangione was a trumpet and flugelhorn player who made 30 albums and became one of the most popular jazz artists of the 1970s
Chuck Mangione, the famous jazz musician known for the hit song Feels So Good, has died at the age of 84.
His family shared the news with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle on July 24. They said Mangione died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York, on July 22.
Mangione was a trumpet and flugelhorn player who made 30 albums and became one of the most popular jazz artists of the 1970s.
He started playing music when he was just eight years old and performed with his brother Gap Mangione in a school jazz group. The two brothers looked up to jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, who was a family friend.
Mangione studied music at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and later returned to teach and lead the school’s jazz band.
His music career brought him many awards, including two Grammy wins. He won in 1977 for Bellavia and again in 1979 for The Children of Sanchez, which was also a movie soundtrack and won a Golden Globe.
In 1977, his song Feels So Good became a huge hit. It reached number four on the Billboard singles chart and the album it came from rose to number two, just behind the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Mangione’s music blended jazz and pop and has reached millions of listeners to this day.
