Jazz musician Chuck Mangione
© Philip De Jong, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(Rochester, NY) — Famed Jazz artist Chuck Mangione is dead at the age of 84. His manager said the trumpet player and composer, died this week at his home in New York. Mangione passed away from natural causes in his sleep.
He also played the flugelhorn and won two Grammys over his 60-year musical career. Mangione also had a recurring role on “King of the Hill” and appeared on “Magnum, P.I.”
One Grammy was for best instrumental composition for “Bellavia” – named to honor his mother – and was nominated a total of 14 times. “Feels So Good,” an upbeat instrumental whose full-length version runs nearly 10 minutes, spent 25 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #4 in 1978.
