MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Chuck Mangione Long before Kenny G was crucified almost daily as the Antichrist of serious jazz, Chuck Mangione was the favorite whipping boy of the purists. The guy with the silly hats who just wanted to make you “Feel(s) So Good” with his uncomplicated, fusion-derived tunes was a natural target for ire, especially when he was in his ‘70s commercial heyday. But Mangione had big hits and devoted fans, and paved the way for many imitators less talented than he. Born in Rochester, NY in 1940, Mangione studied at the hometown Eastman School while leading a bop combo with his keyboardist brother Gap; after finishing he went on to play in the big bands of Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson, another trumpeter who’d score big crossover successes. Mangione also played hard bop with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers for a couple of years in the mid-60s, but by decade’s end he’d switched to flugelhorn, signed to Mercury and began recording with orchestras and vocalists. It paid off on albums like 1973’s Land Of Make Believe, a live set recorded with the Hamilton Philharmonic. Mangione switched to A&M in 1975, made his sound even more breezy and listener-friendly, and achieved his greatest commercial success with that year’s Chase the Clouds Away and 1977’s Feels So Good, both of which generated big hits with their title tracks. Yet further releases on A&M couldn’t duplicate that success, and by the ‘80s he’d found a new home at Columbia, where he churned out increasingly slicker releases to increasingly diminished returns, reaching a nadir with 1984’s Eumir Deodato-assisted Disguises. Then came a long silence, broken in 1997 with a tour and two years later with the hopefully-titled The Feeling’s Back, which brought back the mellow grooves but laid off the cheese, to critical approval. Now that they had Kenny G and Co. to beat up on, many were more generous to Mangione, and Everything For Love, which found him in early-70s form, got some of his warmest reviews.     Chuck Mangione Annalise WinMedia Jazz Give Chuck a break and he and his much-maligned magic horn will make you feel good all over again with this whipped-cream fusion ballad.
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