Chuck Mangione

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Chuck Mangione (Born November 29, 1940) is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single, “Feels So Good”. Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.

Throughout the 1970s, he was a celebrity. His purposely lightweight music was melodic pop that was upbeat, optimistic and sometimes uplifting. Mangione’s records were big sellers yet few of his fans from the era knew that his original goal was to be a bebopper.

His father had often taken Chuck and his older brother Gap (a keyboardist) out to see jazz concerts and Dizzy Gillespie was a family friend. While Chuck studied at the Eastman School, the two Mangiones co-led a bop quintet called the Jazz Brothers that recorded several albums for Jazzland, often with Sal Nistico on tenor. Chuck Mangione played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson (both in 1965) and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (1965-67). In 1968, now sticking mostly to his soft-toned flugelhorn.

Two members of Mangiones band sadly perished in the Colgan Air Flight 3407 accident outside Buffalo, NY. Coleman Mellett, 34, and Gerard “Gerry” Niewood, 64, was arriving for a Mangione date at Kleinhans Music Hall. Niewood was a Rochester native who at 14 played baritone saxophone on Mangione’s first record, “Have I Told You So,” reissued as “B’bye” on Mangione’s “Children of Sanchez” album.

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1	Feels So Good	409
2	Children Of Sanchez full track	245
3	Give It All You Got full track	53
4	Chase the Clouds Away full track	51
5	Lullabye full track	35
6	Children of Sanchez (Overture) full track	34
7	Bellavia	31
8	Consuelo's Love Theme full track	28
9	Doin' Everything With You full track	25
10	Cannonball Run Theme full track	23
11	Land of Make Believe	22
11	Children of Sanchez Overture	22
13	Maui-Waui full track	21
13	Fun And Games full track	21
15	Last Dance full track	20

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DuduTrofey wrote:
24 days ago

Awesome

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JNez wrote:
last month

man oh man...i don't have too many fond memories of my dad growing up, but chuck mangione's music is definitely one of the best. dad played the feels so good & children of sanchez albums on our home stereo system for what seemed like hours each day. and i loved every minute of it. 30 years later, chuck mangione & both of those masterpiece cd's still sound every bit as fresh and skilled as they did then. this is the genesis of smooth jazz; no fan of old school, quiet stormy, r&b instrumental music should be without chuck mangione's feels so good & children of sanchez cd's.

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vikman1961 wrote:
last month

FEELS SO GOOD!! MAYBE A VIDEO!!

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ray0609 wrote:
September 2009

truely the best album "live from the Holly Wood Bowl" and if you can find it good luck. A TRUE WORK OF ART.

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Philse wrote:
September 2009

Give It All You Got and Feels So Good are killer tunes!!!

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reversecentaur wrote:
September 2009

at mega-lo-mart, the prices are falling even faster than i ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

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bobby222 wrote:
August 2009

the best

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gizmoUK wrote:
July 2009

Feels so good,nuff said!

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Akaraki wrote:
June 2009

fuckin' amazing

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Don_Pillos wrote:
June 2009

great piece of musik

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Ohstone wrote:
March 2009

Wow! The old days!

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pabulous wrote:
March 2009

it fuels so good!

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rsvb wrote:
March 2009

Chuck is my man :-)

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quietlistner wrote:
February 2009

love him

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hjefreh wrote:
January 2009

children of sanchez r*******o mnie

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justynaa44 wrote:
January 2009

genialny jest

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minjae0810 wrote:
November 2008

my mum used to play "feels so good" when she cleaned the house and i found the song a few weeks ago! I love it. It feels so good! haha I think it's the only instrumental song i listen to lol

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Wakakaishin wrote:
November 2008

Classic musician. I listened to Land of Make Believe all the time when I was kid, and I just dug it up a few days ago... omg so amazing. :) Also, I wish I could play trumpet as well as him. He's basically all the innocence that I don't have :X

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DrewMac42 wrote:
October 2008

Have got these albums on vinyl in my lock-up, listening to them here makes me want to dust off the turntable + amp and play them loud! Brings back many happy memories. Great artist Great tunes

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ortzinator wrote:
September 2008

he's great and i would listen to him more but i grew up with his Greatest Hits playing CONSTANTLY and now i get his songs stuck in my head EASY lol

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