Chuck Mangione

Charles Frank " Chuck" Mangione ( born November 29, 1940 in Rochester, New York) is an American jazz flugelhorn player and composer. Internationally successful he was in 1978 with his jazz - pop single, " Feels So Good ", also in the jazz guitarist Grant Geissman participated.

Life

Musical gained attention Mangione with the band "The Jazz Brothers", which he ran with his brother, Gap, and the three albums recorded. From 1958 to 1963 he attended the Eastman School of Music and joined the then Art Blakey 's "Jazz Messengers ", where he classifying themselves in the ranks of the jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, Kenny Dorham, Bill Hardman, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard in front of him had occupied this place.

Another big step in Mangione 's career was the return to the Eastman School of Music, where he took over the management of the local jazz orchestra 1968-1972. In 1970, he took with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the live album "Friends and Love", entitled " Hill Where the Lord Hides " included, among other things, and which helped him to a recording contract with Mercury Records and a Grammy nomination. Under Mercury Records, he received the title track of the album "Land Of Make Believe " another Grammy nomination.

In A & M Records was his recording " Chase The Clouds Away " for the theme song of the television broadcast of the 1976 Olympic Games, with " Bellavia " won Mangione his first Grammy in 1977. In the late 70s he achieved more awards, including for his hit " Feels So Good ", whose melody was referred to in an entry from 1980 in Current Biography as the catchiest song since " Michelle " by the Beatles.

Mangione eponymous soundtrack for the film " Children of Sanchez " in 1978 with a Grammy in the category " " Best Instrumental performance - Pop "award in 1979 and nominated for a Golden Globe Award, but could not prevail against Midnight Express by Giorgio Moroder himself.

1980 " Give It All You Got " on the subject of the Olympic Winter Games. In the '80s, Columbia Records signed him, and it was followed by numerous albums and successful concerts.

In 1989, after 25 years as a musician, he ceased to present themselves to the public and took no further albums. He started again until 1994, and many suspect the death of Dizzy Gillespie as a trigger, since Mangione worshiped him.

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