RIP Chuck Mangione

Covid is taking out everybody this week

I can remember, as a kid, wanting to learn to play the fluegelhorn because of “Feels So Good”.

This one hits hard….it’s like everyone from my younger days are dying at a rapid pace…

Makes ya think……

Chuck, Ozzie, Hulk, and Theo Huxtable walk into a heavenly bar...

RIP

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I can remember, as a kid, wanting to learn to play the fluegelhorn because of “Feels So Good”.

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I was lucky enough to be one of the high school kids that got to share the stage with him to perform for the local school during the day before his concert in our little east Kentucky town was schedule for that evening. I was piddling around on my trumpet and very quietly (I thought) playing along with him on his solo on "Legend of the One Eyed Sailor." He stopped us all and looked around asking who was playing along with his solo. I 'fessed up and started toward the edge of the stage figuring he was gonna kick me out of the place. Instead, he took my trumpet and swapped mouthpieces then handed me his horn and says, "Okay. If you think you can do it, then do it," and he played the backing trumpet part while I got to play his solo.

I had learned the solo for that one from listening to the Tarantella album and playing along, so I wound up playing it with all the squeaks, squeals, and missed notes that he had played it on the live performance from that album. He accused me of being more myna bird than musician afterward.

He was absolutely amazing and he made it a point to spend time interacting personally with each one of us who had been selected to back him that day for the schools' field trip. A truly great person and musician. He is greatly missed.

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I was lucky enough to be one of the high school kids that got to share the stage with him to perform for the local school during the day before his concert in our little east Kentucky town was schedule for that evening. I was piddling around on my trumpet and very quietly (I thought) playing along with him on his solo on "Legend of the One Eyed Sailor." He stopped us all and looked around asking who was playing along with his solo. I 'fessed up and started toward the edge of the stage figuring he was gonna kick me out of the place. Instead, he took my trumpet and swapped mouthpieces then handed me his horn and says, "Okay. If you think you can do it, then do it," and he played the backing trumpet part while I got to play his solo. I had learned the solo for that one from listening to the Tarantella album and playing along, so I wound up playing it with all the squeaks, squeals, and missed notes that he had played it on the live performance from that album. He accused me of being more myna bird than musician afterward. He was absolutely amazing and he made it a point to spend time interacting personally with each one of us who had been selected to back him that day for the schools' field trip. A truly great person and musician. He is greatly missed.

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God, what a great story.

Pouring one out.... he inspired me to major in the recorder.


RIP

Comes in 3s. Ozzy, hulk, chuck

Grocery store and elevator music lost a big one today.

The Mega Lo Mart lost its best and only resident. RIP Chuck.