07/11/09 • Chuck Mangione • 07:00 PM & 09:30 PM
For more than five decades, Chuck Mangione's love affair with music has been characterized by his boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm, and pure joy that radiates from the stage.
During the late 1970's, Chuck received more awards and accolades for his recordings. He reached new heights with his mega-hit single and album, Feels So Good. The 1980 Mangione entry in Current Biography called "Feels So Good" the most recognized melody since the Beatles' "Michelle." The Children of Sanchez double-album soundtrack won the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Award, then earned Mangione a second Grammy award.
Mangione was also busy with personal projects during the 1980's. He hosted an 8-hour concert featuring jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Chick Corea, which benefited the Italian earthquake Relief Fund.
In 1989, Chuck released two live albums, "The Boys From Rochester," featuring Steve Gadd, Gap Mangione, Joe Romano and frank Pullara, plus a double album, Chuck Mangione Live at the Village Gate. Following these releases, and more than 25 years of one-nighters around the world, Chuck Mangione stopped playing.
Many people point to the death of Dizzy Gillespie as the event that propelled Mangione back into music.
Recently Smooth Jazz stations throughout the U.S. recognized Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" as their all time #1 song.
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