Professing love for Bob James' music can yield a side-eye in some circles. Jazz purists routinely view the keyboardist's 1970s period as a progenitor to smooth jazz — an idiom they frequently react to ...

Celebrated jazz musician and composer Chuck Mangione, best known for his smooth flugelhorn melodies and 1970s hit Feels So Good, has passed away at the age of 84. His attorney, Peter S. Matorin, ...