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The world lost jazz legend Charles Frank Mangione on July 22, 2025, at age 84. The flugelhorn player, trumpeter, and music composer died of natural causes in his sleep, aged 84.
Mangione’s hit “Feels So Good” is loved, hated and often mocked. But as jazz split in two directions, he saw nothing wrong with reaching the people.
Chuck Mangione, the Grammy Award-winning trumpet player best known for the 1978 hit “Feels So Good,” has died. He was 84. “The family of Chuck Mangione is deeply saddened to share that Chuck peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York on July 22, 2025,” his family wrote in a statement issued Thursday.
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