Chuck Mangione, the virtuoso jazz flugelhorn participant, trumpeter and composer who had a left-field Prime 5 pop hit with “Feels So Good” in 1978 and launched some 30 albums throughout his profession, died Tuesday in Rochester, NY. He was 84.
Mangione’s household informed his hometown newspaper Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that the musician died at residence in his sleep.
Mangione had been composing and releasing jazz albums for almost a decade when he signed with Mercury Data within the late Nineteen Sixties. He made 5 LPs of instrumentals, most recorded in live performance, for the label from 1970-73, and 4 of these hit the decrease reaches of the Billboard 200 chart. Three singles from the period additionally dented the Scorching 100.
He then signed with A&M Data — the artist-friendly label launched by jazz trumpeter Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss — and launched Chase the Clouds Away (1975), which made the Prime 50 and went gold. He put out just a few extra LPs for A&M earlier than hitting the large time in early 1978.
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“Feels So Good,” the eminently hummable title monitor from the all-instrumental album launched in December 1977, started getting mainstream AM radio airplay. That includes Mangione’s flugelhorn virtuosity, it climbed the Scorching 100 all the best way to No. 4. The hit additionally fueled the Feels So Good LP — whose cowl confirmed the beaming musician embracing his flugelhorn — all soar all the best way to No. 2 on the Billboard 200. It was two weeks within the pole place, denied the crown by the juggernaut Saturday Evening Fever soundtrack.
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