EVERYTHING FOR LOVE

The final album recorded by the late double-Grammy-winning Chuck Mangione, Everything for Love, was the flugelhorn maestros second outing for Chesky Records, a New York label renowned for its audiophile-quality recordings and for cutting its artists live in what producer David Chesky described as reverberant spaces using a single microphone. Recorded in St. Peters 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 Mangiones wife Rosie; and the albums 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.