{"id":1948612,"date":"2025-08-08T05:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1948612"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:27:09","slug":"feels-so-good-jazz-musician-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/feels-so-good-jazz-musician-dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Feels So Good&#8217; jazz musician dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/07\/24\/USAT\/85358753007-20250724-t-160812-z-258379291-rc-2-ataa-6084-m-rtrmadp-3-peoplehulkhogan.JPG?crop=4287,2413,x0,y223\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Hulk Hogan dies at 71 | Chuck Mangione dies at 84<\/p>\n<p>Shirt-shredding superstar and wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has died. Chuck Mangione, a prolific composer and musician who released 30 albums in his career, died July 22.<\/p>\n<p>Fox &#8211; 32 Chicago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/lifestyle\/music\/2015\/04\/24\/gap-mangiones-one-degree-separation\/26266621\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/lifestyle\/music\/2015\/04\/24\/gap-mangiones-one-degree-separation\/26266621\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chuck Mangione<\/a>, a prolific composer and musician who released 30 albums in his career, died July 22, a statement from his family confirmed. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The family of Chuck Mangione is deeply saddened to share that Chuck peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York, on July 22, 2025,&#8221; said the statement, shared July 24 with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2025\/07\/24\/chuck-mangione-dies-famed-trumpeter-and-composer-was-84\/85357708007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle<\/a>, part of the USA TODAY Network.<\/p>\n<p>A celebrated composer and virtuoso flugelhorn and trumpet player, Mangione began taking music lessons at age 8 and played in a jazz combo with his pianist brother, Gap, during his high school years.<\/p>\n<p>He and Gap were both heavily inspired by Dizzy Gillespie, a family friend and jazz great, whom their father adored. Gillespie would join the Mangiones for dinner whenever he was in town and became one of Mangione\u2019s biggest influences.<\/p>\n<p>Gillespie was so impressed by teenage Mangione&#8217;s musical prowess that he gave him one of his trademark upswept trumpets.<\/p>\n<p>Mangione went on to study at the Eastman School of Music and graduated in 1963 with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in music education. He later returned to teach and direct the school&#8217;s jazz ensemble.<\/p>\n<p>He parlayed his musical upbringing into a successful solo career, selling millions of records and receiving numerous awards, including two Grammys: in 1977 for best instrumental composition (&#8220;Bellavia&#8221;) and in 1979 for best pop instrumental performance (&#8220;The Children of Sanchez&#8221;). The latter, a soundtrack for the movie of the same name, also won a Golden Globe.<\/p>\n<p>His 1977 single &#8220;Feels So Good,&#8221; off an album of the same name, reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart in 1978, bested only by the &#8220;Saturday Night Fever&#8221; soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feels So Good&#8221; also became a bit on TV&#8217;s animated <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/05\/14\/king-of-the-hill-reboot\/83629557007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/05\/14\/king-of-the-hill-reboot\/83629557007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;King of the Hill,&#8221;<\/a> where it was frequently referenced, with Mangione himself nabbing a recurring voice-acting role.<\/p>\n<p>Mangione also composed &#8220;Give it All You Got,&#8221; the theme song for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, and performed it during the closing ceremonies to an audience of several hundred million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chuck\u2019s love affair with music has been characterized by his boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm, and pure joy that radiated from the stage,&#8221; his family\u2019s statement reads. &#8220;His appreciation for his loyal worldwide fans was genuine as evidenced by how often he would sit at the edge of the stage after a concert for however long it took to sign autographs for the fans who stayed to meet him and the band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The family also noted that he worked to inspire a new generation of musicians by using high school bands as his orchestra or scheduling children&#8217;s matinee concerts where kids in the audience would be invited to bring their instruments and join him onstage.<\/p>\n<p>Even before his death, Mangione&#8217;s wide-ranging music career was memorialized in the American songbook. In 2009, he donated a selection of his music memorabilia to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Among the items: his signature brown felt hat, scores to his most important works, photos, albums and even an animation cell from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/05\/31\/king-of-the-hill-revival-toby-huss-dale-johnny-hardwick\/83953944007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2025\/05\/31\/king-of-the-hill-revival-toby-huss-dale-johnny-hardwick\/83953944007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;King of The Hill.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hulk Hogan dies at 71 | Chuck Mangione dies at 84 Shirt-shredding superstar and wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has died. 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