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Friday, June 21, 2024

Friday, June 21, 2024: Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good


 

I honestly don't remember this song being over nine minutes long, but it's glorious. 

Here's America's predominant flugelhorn player, Chuck Mangione, killing it with one of the greatest instrumentals to ever hit the pop charts.  

The term "Smooth Jazz" quickly became a derogatory phrase, and "Feels So Good" became one of the defining tracks of that cursed genre, but it's such an unfair cut.  

Chuck Mangione played with Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers, for the love of God.  No jazz lightweight was he.  

Anyway, if it feels good to you, then it feels good to me, ok?