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Grammy-Winning Jazz Musician Chuck Mangione Dies at 84

The Rochester, New York native was a 14-time Grammy nominee who had a prolific output of albums in the 1970s and 1980s.

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, whose 1978 instrumental single “Feels So Good” was a Billboard top ten hit and brought him international fame, died Tuesday at age 84. News outlets in Rochester, New York, where Mangione was born and died, reported his passing. The flugelhorn player and trumpeter, whose parents were steeped in jazz, saw his solo career take off in 1970 with Friends & Love… A Chuck Mangione Concert. Mangione’s output was prolific throughout the next two decades, releasing 21 albums in that span. His 1975 song “Chase the Clouds Away” was used at the following year’s Summer Olympics, and in 1980 Mangione wrote and performed “Give It All You Got,” the theme for that year’s Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Mangione’s 1978 single “Feels So Good,” adapted from the 1977 album of the same name, received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. Mangione won two Grammys: one in 1977 for Best Instrumental Composition for “Bellavia,” and in 1979 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for The Children of Sanchez. Mangione later crossed over into television, appearing on Magnum, P.I. and The Elephant Show. He also had a recurring role as a fictionalized version of himself on the animated series King of the Hill.