Chuck Mangione - Everything For Love

Chuck Mangione — Everything For Love

Hybrid Stereo SACD

Part of the Chesky Original Masters Series

The final album recorded by the late double-Grammy-winning Chuck Mangione, Everything For Love, was the flugelhorn maestro's second outing for Chesky Records.

Recorded in St. Peter's Church, Chelsea, New York, in 2000, Everything For Love reunited Mangione with some of the musicians who had played with him in the '70s — saxophonist/flutist Gerry Niewood, guitarist Grant Geissman, and bassist Charles Meeks — and featured mostly original material. Highlights include "Peggy Hill," which Mangione composed for the animated sitcom King Of The Hill; "Slo Ro," a portrait of Mangione's wife Rosie; and "Papa Mangione," which pays tribute to Mangione's father, from whom he inherited his love of jazz.

Other standouts include "Annalise," a beautiful waltz, and the album's only cover, a soulful, gospel-tinged rendition of the hymn "Amazing Grace," where Mangione takes the listener to church. Everything For Love is a fitting musical epitaph for Mangione, who died in 2025. The album will be reissued in 2026 on SACD Hybrid Stereo and 180g One-step Pressing Vinyl LP as part of the Chesky Original Masters series.

1. Peggy Hill

2. Slo Ro

3. Amazing Grace

4. Seoul Sister

5. Viola

6. I Do Everything for Love

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