OT - RIP Chuck Mangione

[inkman]

 

Edited July 24 by inkman

[Taro T]

May he RIP.

Not easy to chart with a flugelhorn, yet Chuck did it.

This does not feel so good.

😞 

[Weave]

5 minutes ago, Taro T said:

May he RIP.

Not easy to chart with a flugelhorn, yet Chuck did it.

This does not feel so good.

😞

Like I said in the Ozzy thread, another character from my past has gone.

[SwampD]

13 minutes ago, Weave said:

Like I said in the Ozzy thread, another character from my past has gone.

Yep.

And now Hulk Hogan.

Can we put to rest the rule of threes thing?

[Believer]

41 minutes ago, inkman said:

 

RIP.

Saw him in concert in Rochester when I was in college. Long time ago.

Edited July 24 by Believer

[Weave]

25 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Yep.

And now Hulk Hogan.

Can we put to rest the rule of threes thing?

Rule of 4 at this point.

Ozzy

Malcolm Jamal Warner (Cosby Show)

Chuck Mangione

Hulk Hogan

 

 

[Indabuff]

Damn, didn't know he passed.  From Rochester too.

[Taro T]

30 minutes ago, Weave said:

Rule of 4 at this point.

Ozzy

Malcolm Jamal Warner (Cosby Show)

Chuck Mangione

Hulk Hogan

 

 

5.  The guy from Golden Earring too.

[Pimlach]

RIP Chuck.  

His jazz music stunningly hit the pop charts in 1977 and got a lot of air time.   It was refreshing change for me personally and it opened new doors.  There was a time when my music consumption was  >90% rock/pop.   

After hearing this record I started to listen to jazz and I used to regularly see Spyro Gyra perform live at the original Tralfamadore Cafe in Buffalo.  My record collection took on a new and more diverse direction.   

While Chuck's jazz music may never be called influential from a pure jazz perspective, it actually was for me.  Chuck's hit record took me to artists like George Benson, Chick Corea, Weather Report and jazz/rock fusion.   After awhile  I explored all forms of jazz going back to Charlie Parker, Miles and Coltrane, Brubeck, etc.   

[SwampD]

25 minutes ago, Taro T said:

5.  The guy from Golden Earring too.

77 is just too young.

[msw2112]

Never knew he was from Rochester, but always liked "Feels So Good" and one or two of his other hits.  My parents played his vinyl when I was growing up and they were big fans.  Prayers to his family.

[mphs mike]

3 hours ago, Pimlach said:

RIP Chuck.  

His jazz music stunningly hit the pop charts in 1977 and got a lot of air time.   It was refreshing change for me personally and it opened new doors.  There was a time when my music consumption was  >90% rock/pop.   

After hearing this record I started to listen to jazz and I used to regularly see Spyro Gyra perform live at the original Tralfamadore Cafe in Buffalo.  My record collection took on a new and more diverse direction.   

While Chuck's jazz music may never be called influential from a pure jazz perspective, it actually was for me.  Chuck's hit record took me to artists like George Benson, Chick Corea, Weather Report and jazz/rock fusion.   After awhile  I explored all forms of jazz going back to Charlie Parker, Miles and Coltrane, Brubeck, etc.   

I could have written this post. You forgot to mention Herbie Hancock and the Jazz Crusaders

[Mr Peabody]

Played in our HS gym back in the day.

[Porous Five Hole]

Proud to share my home town with him.  He was a very giving guy and loved ROC.    

In 2000, he raised over $50,000 for St. John's Nursing Home at his 60th-birthday concert at the Eastman Theatre.

He also graduated and taught at the Eastman School of Music.  

He was known to play local high school orchestras and bands for the fun of it.  A tip of the brown felt hat to a legend. 

[GASabresIUFAN]

RiP

Ozzy, Hulk and Chuck.  Tough few days

[That Aud Smell]

16 hours ago, msw2112 said:

Never knew he was from Rochester, but always liked "Feels So Good" and one or two of his other hits.  My parents played his vinyl when I was growing up and they were big fans.  Prayers to his family.

Same. And I used to dance around like a fool to it, iirc.

I had no idea he was from Roch. RIP.

[Alaska John]

23 hours ago, SwampD said:

Yep.

And now Hulk Hogan.

Can we put to rest the rule of threes thing?

Better hope it still applies before we lose someone else.

[Alaska John]

I heard Mangione play at the West Seneca West HS auditorium.  I think he was on a personal crusade to open ears to jazz.  

Edited Friday at 05:03 PM by Alaska John

[msw2112]

23 hours ago, msw2112 said:

Never knew he was from Rochester, but always liked "Feels So Good" and one or two of his other hits.  My parents played his vinyl when I was growing up and they were big fans.  Prayers to his family.

I asked my parents if they knew that Chuck was from Rochester and my Dad said, yes, and that they went to the same high school and even shared classes together!  Not sure why he never mentioned that back in the day when he used to listen to that music all the time.  After high school, my Dad moved to Buffalo to attend UB, and he stayed until retirement (hence me being born and raised in Buffalo)....he was also a Sabres and Bills season ticket holder before retirement to warmer climes (hence me being a huge Sabres and BIlls fan).