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Chuck Mangione

As a fixture of the US smooth jazz scene for over 50 years, horn player Chuck Mangione's easy going, melodic, bebop instrumentals won Grammy Awards, sold millions of records and even soundtracked the Winter Olympics. Born in Rochester, New York to an Italian-American family of music lovers, Mangione and his brother Gap were regularly taken to gigs by their father, and stars such as Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey became family friends who occasionally turned up for dinner. The siblings studied at the Eastman School of Music and played together in a quintet called Jazz Brothers ...