CHUCK MANGIONE

'Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione' (born November 29, 1940) is a flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good" (1978) featuring guitarist Grant Geissman. Mangione has released more than 30 albums from the early 1960s to today.
Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Mangione and his pianist brother Gap led the Jazz Brothers group which recorded three albums for Riverside Records. He attended the Eastman School of Music from 1958 to 1963, and afterwards joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for which he filled the trumpet seat, previously held by greats such as Clifford Brown, Kenny Dorham, Bill Hardman, and Lee Morgan. Mangione served as director of the Eastman jazz ensemble from 1968 until 1972 and in 1970 he returned to recording with the album ''Friends and Love'', recorded in concert with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and numerous guest performers. 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 performed live at the closing ceremonies, which were televised globally. A 1980 issue of Current Biography called "Feels So Good" the most recognized tune since "Michelle" by The Beatles. Recently, smooth jazz stations throughout the United States have recognized Mangione's "Feels So Good" as their all-time number one song. He raised over $50,000 for St. John's Nursing Home at his 60th Birthday Bash Concert, held at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester.

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★ Mangione has a recurring role on the animated television series ''King of the Hill'', portraying himself as a celebrity spokesman for Mega Lo Mart. The first episode of ''King of the Hill'' featuring Mangione originally aired on Valentine's Day, 1998. The episode featured an original score specifically recorded for the occasion. In the episode entitled Lucky's Wedding Suit, Chuck Mangione's character played a flugelhorn solo of Mendelssohn's Wedding March that eventually erupted into the famous solo at the beginning of "Feels So Good."

★ In the episode of Friends entitled The One at the Beach, Phoebe Buffay questions Phoebe Abbott (who turns out to be her birth mother) about her background, suspecting that a guy in one of her photographs is her birth father. She is, however, informed that the man in the photograph is Chuck Mangione, causing Phoebe to ask, "My father is Chuck Mangione?".

★ In the play ''Stone Cold Dead Serious'', Jack Gam tunes the radio in his Chrysler New Yorker to Chuck Mangione. His teenage companion quickly changes the radio to Wu Tang.

★ In the television show ''Stella (TV series)'', the episode titled "Meeting Girls," the episode ends with a toast in Italian which translates to "Here's to you and Chuck Mangione."

★ In Spring 2006, ''Late Night With Conan O'Brien'' had a late night prom sketch and the DJ played Chuck Mangione which caused ''Conan O' Brien'' to say he was fired.

★ In January 2007, Mangione became an honorary member of the Brownfield Chamber of Commerce in Brownfield, Texas.

★ While in Rochester he met Mick Guzauski, an up-and-coming sound engineer, who engineered his recordings and mixed his live sound. When Mangione signed with A&M Records in 1975, he asked Guzauski to go to Los Angeles with him to engineer his new album, a recording with a 45-piece orchestra with a rhythm section and soloists at A&M studios. Guzauski engineered several albums for Mangione over the next few years, and later went on to win a number of Grammy Awards and mix over two dozen # 1 singles.

★ In the Magnum PI episode "Paradise Blues," Chuck Mangione portrays a fellow night club act along with TC's (Roger E. Mosley's) former girlfriend. Chuck performs two singles and has lines near the end of the show.

External links

★ Chuck Mangione official website

★ Chuck Mangione at AllMusic.com

★ Mangione Magic - The Music of Chuck Mangione

★ Chuck Mangione's career on A&M Records with gallery, international discography