Smooth-jazz musician Chuck Mangione, 84, died on July 22. Mangione played with Art Blakey’s band in the 1960s, and with his brother Gap in the Mangione Brothers Sextet. He mostly played the flugelhorn, a sort of cousin to the trumpet, and played with small groups and huge orchestras. He described his music as “contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.” Mangione’s biggest hit, 1978’s “Feel So Good,” was inescapable for much of the next ten years. He also acted on an episode of Magnum, P.I., and played himself on King of the Hill. “I made many studio albums,” Mangione said, “and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance. A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.”
“Feels So Good” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtxTyJmxVI&list=RDZOtxTyJmxVI&start_radio=1
