Chuck Mangione, an important figure in Smooth jazz, died on Tuesday, July 22. The trumpeter, known for his title So well feels He was 84 years old. Rochester’s legend, Charles Frank Mangione died in his hometown. It was in this city in the state of New York, that the child was born on November 29, 1940. His parents, of Italian origin, had a small grocery store adjacent to the house and used to listen to the great jazz standards of the 1950s.
“Chuck’s love story with music has been characterized by his misinformed energy, his uninhibited enthusiasm and pure joy that radiated from the scene,” his family wrote in a press release.
Lullaby by these melodies, the child may have dreamed of a pianist: at the age of eight, he even took lessons in a music school to do as his greatest brother “Gap” Mangione, two years older.
But, at ten, Chuck Mangione is more oriented towards trumpet, inspired by The woman with chimeras (1950) By Michael Curtiz. In this movie, Rick Martin (Kirk Douglas) learns the copper by Art Hazzard (Juano Hernández), a black trumpeter that makes him virtuous.
The influence of Dizzy Gillepsie
The two children play together and even create a “Les Jazz Brothers” quintet in high school. They meet the road to singer Sarah Vaughan, drummer Art Blakey or even the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, Father’s friends, guests to share the table.
The latter becomes a mentor, “a musical father”, for the young Chuck Mangione, as noted The New York Times. Impressed by the teenager’s talents, then he is 15 years old, Dizzy Gillepsie even offers him a trumpet, the famous Upwept.
Chuck Mangione continued his studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, and graduated in 1963. He was the first of his school to practice the Bugle, an instrument of the Cariber family, very close to the trumpet.
The success of feeling so good
An important figure in the Smooth jazz, Chuck Mangione, was inspired by the fusion of the jazz of Miles Davis, which included electronic instruments in traditional jazz. The flamenco guitar and a disc rhythm added. The result is a mixture of pop-jazz, very quickly becomes popular.
So well feelsreleased in October 1977, it is an emblematic example and presents jazz to a large audience. Badge title, allows the homonymous album to become a double platinum disk, and exploits Jazzman’s notoriety.
Chuck Mangione’s recognition is not only popular, but is also critical. A year earlier So well feelsYour title Bellavia, that he dedicates to his mother, He wins the Grammy Awards of the best musical composition in 1976. And in 1979, Rebero: The Trumpeter won a second trophy, for the best pop instrumental performance, as well as a golden balloons of the best film music for the composition of the soundtrack of the film of the film Sánchez’s childrenAdapted from Oscar Lewis’s book.
In sixty years of career, it was known that Chuck Mangione was close to his audience, as his family comments, in a press release: “His admiration for his faithful fans of the entire world was sincere, as evidenced by the frequency in which he was sitting on the edge of the stage after a concert, time to sign autographs for fans who came to meet him, he and the group” “
The great musician Deja, Behind It, a legacy of about thirty albums, and a line of artists, such as Grover Washington JR or Sade, for whom the Smooth Jazz was a great inspiration.
Source: BFM TV
