Jazz Articles about Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione: Friend For Lovers

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 26, 2025

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in September 2000. Chuck Mangione is best known as the trumpet player and composer of that ubiquitous tune, which taught millions worldwide that music “Feels So Good." But Chuck Mangione boasts serious Jazz chops: Before flying solo, he cut his teeth in the Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson big bands and in Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, where he assumed the trumpet chair previously occupied by Clifford ...

Chuck Mangione: Back On Track

by Michael Ricci
July 26, 2025

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in June 1999... without embedded videos. For three decades, Chuck Mangione's infectious energy, unbridled enthusiasm, and pure joy have defined his deep passion for music. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, he first garnered attention playing with the Jazz Brothers alongside his older brother, Gap. Chuck later left home to join Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, stepping into the trumpet chair once held by Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, ...

Coleman Mellett: Sing You a Brand New Song

by Fran Kursztejn
February 19, 2025

If guitarist & singer-songwriter Coleman Mellett was “known" at all, it's for his brief yet exciting contributions to Chuck Mangione's ensemble. He played in Mangione's band between 1999 and the eve of his shocking death in 2009, along with 49 other passengers and crew members on the Colgan Flight 3047. His sensitive, versatile strumming challenged bandmates with a unique blend of jazz, folk and blues styles. The small catalogue of his officially released work reveals an inventive voice both inside ...

Chuck Mangione: Friends and Love

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2007

Chuck Mangione Friends and Love Gates Music 2007

In the decade 1970-80 composer/arranger/trumpeter Chuck Mangione was hotter than a four-alarm fire, drawing large audiences to his concerts and producing two Grammy Award-winning albums that combined elements of Jazz, pop, New Age and even classical music in performances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and other ensembles. One of those concerts, Friends and Love, taped in 1970 at the Eastman Theatre and telecast on ...

Chuck Mangione: The Feeling's Back

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

Chuck Mangione, who all but disappeared from the radar screens after his enormously successful run of best-selling albums in the mid- to late-'70s, says “the feeling's back" -- and, if we are to judge from his even-tempered debut for Chesky Records, so is Chuck, who seems to be playing his dulcet flugel as well as ever.

He's always had a well-developed ear for beguiling melodies, and that too seems as keen as ever. While one may question the music's Jazz ...