Jazz composer Chak Mangione’s file Picture, Flugelhorn is playing. Photo Credit: Reuters
Two-time Grammy Award winning composer Chak Mangione, who achieved international success in 1977 with his Jazz-Swad “Feels So Good” and later became a voice on animated TV comedy “King of the Hill,”. He was 84 years old.
Mangion died on Tuesday (July 23, 2025) in Rochester, New York, his lawyer, his lawyer, Beldock Levin and Peter S. of Hofman LLP. Materin said. The musicians had retired since 2015.
Perhaps his biggest hit-“feels great”-is a predominant at smooth-smooth radio stations and is said to be one of the most recognized tunes since “Michels” by Beatles. It hit the number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard adult contemporary chart.
Mangian said, “It identifies a song with an artist for many people, even though I had a very strong base audience, who used to visit us as many times as we wanted, the song just got out of there and took it to the second level,” Mangian said. Pittsburgh post-gazette in 2008.
He followed the hit with “Give It It All You Got”, commissioned at the 1980 Winter Olympic Lake Plessid, and he performed at the closing ceremony.
Mangion, a Flagelhorn and Trumpat Player and Jazz composer, released more than 30 albums during a career, in which he built a large -scale after recording several albums, all writing.
He won his first Grammy Award for his album “Belavia” in 1977, named in honor of his mother. Another album, “Friends and Love”, was also Grammy-Nominated, and he earned a second grammy for the best original score Golden Globe enrollment and the film “The Children of Sanchez”.
‘King of the Hill’
Mangian introduced himself to a new audience when he appeared in several sessions of the first several sessions of the “King of the Hill”, which appeared as a commercial spokesperson for the mega low mart, where “shopping looks great.”
Jazz Pianoist Gap Mangione’s brother Mangione, with whom he participated in Jazz Brothers, started his career as a knocking jazz musician, inspired by Digi Gillespie.
Mangion said, “He was one of the first musicians who I saw that there was only a synergy with the audience with the audience as to what he was going to play and who was in his band,” Mangion said. Post-paper,
Mangian earned a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music – where he would eventually return as the director of the school’s Jazz Enill – and left home to play with Art Black and Jazz Messengers.
He donated his signature brown felt hat and his Grammy-winner Single “Fils So Good,” as well as album, songbook and other almanac to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2009 with his long and luxurious career.
Published – July 25, 2025 06:59 AM IST
