Albums by Chuck Mangione
ALBUMEverything for LoveChuck Mangione
ALBUMThe Feeling's BackChuck Mangione
ALBUMEyes Of The Veiled TemptressChuck Mangione
ALBUMSave Tonight For MeChuck Mangione
ALBUMDisguiseChuck Mangione
ALBUMJourney To A RainbowChuck Mangione
ALBUMLove NotesChuck Mangione
ALBUMFun and GamesChuck Mangione
ALBUMChildren of SanchezChuck Mangione
ALBUM70 Miles YoungChuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione's Popular Music Videos
Feels So Good (Live At The Grammys / 1979)
Chuck Mangione
Artist Playlists
Chuck Mangione Essentials
A Jazz Messenger turns into a pop icon.
Artist Biography
America’s premier flugelhorn player has carved out a place in American pop culture with his chilled-out, untroubled take on jazz. Born in Rochester, NY, in 1940, Charles Frank Mangione was in bands with his brother Gap during his youth, and he studied at his hometown’s Eastman School of Music before joining Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers as a trumpeter in the early ’60s. In 1968, now focusing mostly on the flugelhorn, he formed a quartet with saxophonist Gerry Niewood. Mangione has long been known for bridging the gap between jazz and pop, with songs like 1975’s dreamy “Chase the Clouds Away,” 1977's stretched-out light-funk composition “Feels So Good,” and the percolating theme to the zany 1981 car-race smash The Cannonball Run keeping his smoothed-out sounds in the musical mainstream. He recorded a smattering of albums, toured, and appeared as a recurring guest on the animated sitcom King of the Hill in the decades that followed his late-’70s commercial peak.
Hometown
Rochester, NY, United States
Genre
Jazz