Overview
- His instrumental “Feels So Good” reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the adult contemporary chart in 1977.
- He composed “Give It All You Got” for the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics closing ceremony.
- He released more than 30 albums over his career and won Grammys for the album Bellavia and the soundtrack The Children of Sanchez.
- He began in the early 1960s as a bebop trumpeter under Dizzy Gillespie before co-founding The Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap Mangione.
- He later introduced his music to new audiences through recurring cameos as himself on the animated series King of the Hill.