Search - Artist/Band: Junior Mance

• Name: Junior Mance
• Birthday: 10/10/1928
• Birth Place: Chicago, IL
• Decades Active: 1940,1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
• Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Elegant, Carefree, Romantic, Rousing, Earthy, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Refined/Mannered, Rollicking

Title	Release
Blue Minor	08/20/2008
Yesterday	08/21/2006
Ballads 2006	05/22/2006
Shadow of Your Smile W	05/05/2006
Soul Eyes	10/25/2004
Sweet and Lovely	05/25/2004
Opus de Funk	12/02/2003
On the Road	07/28/2003
Music of Thelonious Monk W	04/08/2003
Groovin Blues WA	08/26/2002
Harlem Lullaby/I Believe to My Soul	09/12/2000
Nadja	1999
Jubilation	11/12/1996
Blue Mance	04/25/1995
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise	07/21/1994
Here 'Tis	1992
Mance's Special WA	1988
For Dancers Only WA	07/03/1983
Smokey Blues	06/1980
Holy Mama	1976
Junior Mance Touch	10/1973
That Lovin' Feelin'	09/1973
With a Lotta Help from My Friends WA	1970
Harlem Lullaby	07/1967
I Believe to My Soul	09/12/1966
Happy Time	07/14/1962
Junior's Blues WA	02/14/1962
Big Chief	08/01/1961
Soulful Piano Of WA	10/25/1960
Junior WA	12/10/1959

Junior Mance is well-known for his soulful bluesy style, but he is also expert at playing bop standards. He started playing professionally when he was ten. Mance worked with Gene Ammons in Chicago during 1947-1949, played with Lester Young (1950), and was with the Ammons-Sonny Stitt group until he was drafted. He was the house pianist at Chicago's Bee Hive (1953-1954), worked as Dinah Washington's accompanist (1954-1955), was in the first Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1956-1957), and then spent two years touring with Dizzy Gillespie (1958-1960). After a few months with the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis/Johnny Griffin group, Mance formed his own trio and has mostly been a leader ever since. He has led sessions for Verve, Jazzland, Riverside, Capitol, Atlantic, Milestone, Polydor, Inner City, JSP, Nilva, Sackville, and Bee Hive, among other labels. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide