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Chuck Mangione in 1977.
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Chuck Mangione in 1977.
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Obituaries: 'Feels So Good' Jazz Star Chuck Mangione, English Vocalist Dame Cleo Laine

This week we also acknowledge the passing of Golden Earring guitarist George Kooyman, American songwriter/musician Sally Tiven, Family member Poli Palmer and Jamaican singer Owen Gray.

Chuck (Charles Frank) Mangione, a leading figure in contemporary jazz and the Grammy-winning musician behind crossover hit “Feels So Good,” died on July 22, at age 84.

A Billboard obituary reports that "Mangione grew up listening to jazz music and learning from the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, who was a 'family friend,' An alum of Eastman School of Music — where he would later serve as faculty director of the Eastman Jazz Orchestra — Mangione played in a quintet called the Jazz Brothers with his brother, keyboardist Gap, and performed in Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson’s big bands.

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