Chuck Mangione, one of the most successful musicians to come out of Rochester, has died at age 84.

“The family of Chuck Mangione is deeply saddened to share that Chuck peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York on July 22, 2025,” his family wrote in a statement issued July 24.

Jazz composer and virtuoso flugelhorn and trumpet player Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione was born here on Nov. 29, 1940.

He grew up in a musical home in northeast Rochester where his father, a grocery store operator, exposed him and older brother Gap to jazz greats of the 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie.

Gillespie became a family friend and was one of the A-list performers who would join the Mangiones for dinner whenever he was in Rochester. Gillespie also was one of Chuck Mangione’s b

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