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Mangione, brother of jazz pianist Gap Mangione, with whom he partnered in The Jazz Brothers, started his career as a bebop jazz musician heavily inspired by Dizzy Gillespie.
He grew up in a household where his father exposed him to the jazz greats of the 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie, a family friend who dined with them frequently.
This week it would be Dizzy, the next week Carmen McRae, then Sarah Vaughan, Art Blakey, Kai Winding." It was Gillespie who became his mentor -- "my musical father," as Mangione put it.
At 80, on Dizzy Gillespie's tune "Bebop," he kicks off his solo with a hooting declamatory figure, recalling John Coltrane or field hollering Texas tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin.
Jazz legend Chuck Mangione, known for ‘Feels So Good,’ dies at 84 Mangione released over 30 albums and won two Grammy Awards. He started his career as a bebop musician inspired by Dizzy Gillespie.