Chuck Mangione, jazz icon recognized for “Feels So Good,” dies at 84

Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved worldwide success in 1977 together with his jazz-flavored single “Feels So Good” and later grew to become a voice actor on the animated TV comedy “King of the Hill,” has died. He was 84.

Mangione died at his residence in Rochester, New York, on Tuesday in his sleep, his legal professional, Peter S. Matorin of Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, informed CBS Information. The musician had been retired since 2015.

Maybe his greatest hit — “Feels So Good” — is a staple on most smooth-jazz radio stations and has been referred to as one of the crucial acknowledged melodies since “Michelle” by the Beatles. It hit No. 4 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and the highest of the Billboard grownup modern chart.

“It recognized for lots of people a track with an artist, despite the fact that I had a fairly sturdy base viewers that saved us on the market touring as usually as we needed to, that track simply topped on the market and took it to a complete different degree,” Mangione informed the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette in 2008.

He adopted that hit with “Give It All You Received,” commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, and he carried out it on the closing ceremony.

Mangione, a flugelhorn and trumpet participant and jazz composer, launched greater than 30 albums throughout a profession wherein he constructed a large following after recording a number of albums, doing all of the writing.

He received his first Grammy Award in 1977 for his album “Bellavia,” which was named in honor of his mom. One other album, “Associates and Love,” was additionally Grammy-nominated, and he earned a finest unique rating Golden Globe nomination and a second Grammy for the film “The Youngsters of Sanchez.”

Mangione launched himself to a brand new viewers when he appeared on the primary a number of seasons of “King of the Hill,” showing as a industrial spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, the place “buying feels so good.”

Mangione, brother of jazz pianist Hole Mangione, with whom he partnered in The Jazz Brothers, began his profession as a bebop jazz musician closely impressed by Dizzy Gillespie.

“He additionally was one of many first musicians I noticed who had a rapport with the viewers by simply telling the viewers what he was going to play and who was in his band,” Mangione informed the Put up-Gazette.

Mangione grew up in Rochester and was a graduate of Benjamin Franklin Excessive Faculty, CBS affiliate WROC reported. He earned a bachelor’s diploma from the Eastman Faculty of Music – the place he would ultimately return as director of the varsity’s jazz ensemble – and left residence to play with Artwork Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

“Chuck Mangione was a larger-than-life composer, trumpet and flugelhorn participant, band-leader, recording artist and mentor,” Bob Sneider, an Eastman Jazz college member who toured with Mangione, mentioned in a press release. “He impressed generations of children to play devices in a wide range of musical types.”

He donated his signature brown felt hat and the rating of his Grammy-winning single “Feels So Good,” in addition to albums, songbooks and different ephemera from his lengthy and illustrious profession to the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of American Historical past in 2009.

That very same yr, two of Mangione’s bandmates had been amongst 50 individuals killed when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed in Buffalo. Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett had been on the aircraft that was headed to Buffalo Niagara Worldwide Airport from Newark, N.J.  When it crashed, killing all 40 individuals on board and one particular person on the bottom.