Mangione, Chuck

Mangione, Chuck

Genres: jazz, Smooth Jazz, trumpet, instrumental, Fusion

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About Mangione, Chuck

Chuck Mangione (born Charles Frank Mangione on 29 November 1940; died 22 July 2025) was an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer remembered for his long career that began when he came to prominence as a member of Art Blakey's band in the 1960s, and later co-leading the Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap. He achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good". Mangione released more than thirty albums since 1960, and also recorded as Chuck Mangione Quartet and Chuck Mangione Quintet. Throughout the 1970s, he was a celebrity. His purposely lightweight music was melodic pop that was upbeat, optimistic and sometimes uplifting. Mangione's records were big sellers yet few of his fans from the era knew that his original goal was to be a bebopper. His father had often taken Chuck and his older brother Gap (a keyboardist) out to see jazz concerts and Dizzy Gillespie was a family friend. While Chuck studied at the Eastman School, the two Mangiones co-led a bop quintet called the Jazz Brothers that recorded several albums for Jazzland, often with Sal Nistico on tenor. Chuck Mangione played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson (both in 1965) and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1965-67). In 1968, now sticking mostly to his soft-toned flugelhorn. Two members of Mangione's band sadly perished in the Colgan Air Flight 3407 accident outside Buffalo, NY. Coleman Mellett, 34, and Gerard "Gerry" Niewood, 64, were arriving for a Mangione date at Kleinhans Music Hall. Niewood was a Rochester native who, at 14, played baritone saxophone on Mangione's first record, "Have I Told You So," reissued as "B'bye" on Mangione's "Children of Sanchez" album.

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