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Artist: Chuck Mangione
Genre: Jazz
Latest Album:The Best Of Chuck Mangione
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Chuck Mangione is a flugelhorn player and composer to have achieved international success with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good", in 1977. He has 30 albums released from the early 1960s till date.Mangione along with his pianist brother Gap led the “Jazz Brothers” group that had three albums recorded for Riverside Records and several others for jazzland often with Sal Nistico on tenor. He served as the director of the Eastman jazz ensemble from 1968 until 1972 and in 1970 returned to recording with the album “Friends and Love”, recorded in concert with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and numerous guest performers.
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His quartet with saxophonist Gerry Niewood was a popular concert and recording act during the early 1970s. Mangione's "Chase the Clouds Away" was used in the 1976 Olympic Games and "Give It All You Got" was the theme to the Winter Olympic Games of 1980, held in Lake Placid, New York. He has also given live performances at the closing ceremonies that were globally televised. Mangione's "Feels So Good" has been recognized throughout the United States by the smooth jazz stations as their all-time number one song. His purposely lightweight music comprised of melodic pop, an amalgamation of upbeat, optimistic and sometimes uplifting. Though most of his records were big sellers yet few of his fans from the era were aware that his original goal was to be a bebopper.
Chuck Mangione played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers . In 1968 Mangione formed a quartet that also featured Gerry Niewood on tenor and soprano. They cut a fine set for Mercury in 1972 but otherwise Mangione's recordings in the 1970s generally used large orchestras and vocalists putting the emphasis on lightweight melodies such as "Hill Where the Lord Hides," "Land of Make Believe," "Chase the Clouds Away" and the huge 1977 hit "Feels So Good." After a recorded 1978 Hollywood Bowl concert that summed up his pop years and a 1980 two-LP set that alternated pop and bop, Mangione gradually faded out of the music scene.
In the 1970s Chuck Mangione recorded for Mercury and A&M; in the 1980s he had a couple of very forgettable Columbia albums and had not been heard from in the '90s until a 1997 comeback tour found him in good form, having a reunion with his "Feels So Good" band. The Feeling's Back followed in 1999. He raised over $50,000 for St. John's Nursing Home at his 60th Birthday Bash Concert, held at Eastman Theater in Rochester, New York. Portraying himself as a celebrity spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, he had a recurring role on the animated television series on Fox called King of the Hill. The first episode of King of the Hill featuring Chuck Mangione was initially aired on Valentine's Day 1998 specifically recorded for the occasion.
