Everything For Love

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, 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. 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 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.