Chuck Mangione , the Grammy-winning virtuoso jazz flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer who had a left-field Top 5 pop hit with “Feels So Good” in 1978 and released some 30 albums during his career, died Tuesday in Rochester, NY. He was 84.

He also was known for a recurring voice role as a fictional version of himself on the Fox toon series King of the Hill.

Mangione’s family told his hometown newspaper Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that the musician died at home in his sleep.

Eventually a 14-time Grammy nominee and two-time winner, Mangione was born on November 29, 1940, in Rochester. He had been composing and releasing jazz albums for nearly a decade when he signed with Mercury Records in the late 1960s. He made five LPs of instrumentals for the label, most recorded in co

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