Rochester jazz legend has tragic ties to Colgan Air Flight 3407 tragedy in Buffalo
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By Clay “Tiger” Hulin,
In the summer of 1976, a six-year-old Navy brat living with his family in a small rental on La Maddalena, Italy, tuned into Armed Forces Radio and heard Chuck Mangione’s Feels So Good. The sound of the flugelhorn cut through static and distance, carrying warmth, joy, and a sense of home across the Mediterranean. For many Americans abroad, Mangione’s music was more than entertainment. It was connection.
I remember when the DJ, some bored sailor filling the airwaves, introduced the track as the sounds of home. He said Mangione was from Rochester, New York, and in that moment I felt even closer to home myself…