Chuck Mangione, Grammy-winning jazz musician and composer, dies aged 84 | US news
The musician and jazz composer winner of a Grammy, Chuck Mangione, died on Tuesday, according to a press release from his family. He was 84 years old.
“Chuck Mangione’s family is deeply saddened to share this chuck peacefully died in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York on July 22, 2025,” his family told a statement published on Thursday to the Democrat and the Chronicle of Rochester.
A spokesperson for the famous Flogelhorn and Trumpet also confirmed the news to People magazine, and a message on the official Mangione website reads as follows: “We are very sorry. Chuck Mangione has passed.”
Mangione was born on November 29, 1940 in Rochester, New York. According to his biography of the Rochester Music Hall of Fame, his father presented him and his brother, the pianist Gap Mangione, in jazz from the start.
“Growing up in a house imbued with jazz, Chuck and his brother Gap would listen to their father’s jazz albums while other children of their age listened to Elvis or Jerry Lee Louis [sic]”Indicates the biography.” Their father encouraged the appreciation of boys for jazz and would take them in the mornings Sunday afternoon in jazz clubs in the city. »»
The biography also indicates that their father “would invite these incredible artists to go home with them for a good Italian house cooked home” and that Mangione “grew up thinking that everyone had Carmen McRae and Art Blakey for dinner”.
Mangione made her high school debut by playing a trumpet in a jazz group with her brother called The Jazz Brothers, according to his website.
He then studied at the Eastman School of Music, graduated in 1963 with a baccalaureate in music. According to his biography of the Music Hall of Fame, he later returned to school in 1968 to direct the school’s jazz set and help extend the school’s jazz program until 1972.
Mangione then launched a successful solo career, releasing more than 30 albums and selling millions of records. According to this biography, he received 13 Grammy Grammy nominations, and won two Grammy Awards, one in 1977 for Bellavia and the other in 1979 for the children of Sanchez.
His 1977 album became So Good has become one of the most successful jazz records ever produced, according to the Rochester Music Hall of Fame. And in 1980, it occurred during closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid.
In 2009, Mangione donated some of her musical memories to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC. He was inducted at the Rochester Music Hall of Fame in 2012.
In their statement announcing his death Thursday, Mangione’s family said: “Chuck’s love story with music was characterized by its unlimited energy, its shameless enthusiasm and its pure joy that radiated from the scene.”
They added: “His appreciation for his faithful fans of the whole world was authentic, as evidenced by the frequency to which he sat on the edge of the stage after a concert for so long to sign autographs for the fans who stayed to meet him and the group.”
