Charles Frank Mangione (/mænˈdʒoʊni/ man-JOH-nee;[1] born November 29, 1940)[2] is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer.

[6] He attended the Eastman School of Music from 1958 to 1963, then joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers,[5] for which he filled the trumpet chair previously held by Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Dorham, Bill Hardman, and Lee Morgan.

[7] In the late 1960s, Mangione was a member of the band The National Gallery, which in 1968 released the album Performing Musical Interpretations of the Paintings of Paul Klee.

This version of Mangione's band recorded and toured behind the hit studio albums Feels So Good and Fun and Games and the Children of Sanchez soundtrack.

[14] The band was also featured with a 70-piece orchestra on the live album An Evening of Magic, which was recorded at the Hollywood Bowl on July 16, 1978, at the height of Mangione's success from "Feels So Good".

Mangione played material from the just-released "Children of Sanchez" soundtrack album, which made its West Coast concert debut.

He and the band stayed at a hotel up the street from the Bowl to make sure they would not miss the performance due to snarled traffic pouring in as showtime neared.

He raised over $50,000 for St. John's Nursing Home at his 60th Birthday Bash Concert at the Eastman Theatre and played a few bars of "Feels So Good".

episode "Paradise Blues", Chuck Mangione portrays a fellow night club act along with TC's (Roger E. Mosley's) former girlfriend.

In it he portrays himself as a celebrity spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, almost always wearing the white and red jacket from the cover of his Feels So Good album.

He eventually goes into hiding inside their store in Arlen, Texas, the fictional town in which King of the Hill is set.

After the Mega Lo Mart blows up, Mangione states during a group therapy session that "every song I play now sounds like 'Feels So Good'."

[17] Two members of the band, Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, were among those killed when Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed into a house in the vicinity of Buffalo, New York, on February 12, 2009.