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| 1. | Falling in Love With Love
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| 2. | I Don't Care
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| 3. | Lover Man
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| 4. | Junior's G Blues
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| 5. | What's New?
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| 6. | Us
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| 7. | Oh, Lady Be Good
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| 8. | I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
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| 9. | Take the "A" Train
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Jazz
Recorded November 1997
Junior Mance, piano
Keter Betts, bass
Jackie Williams, drums
With
Henry Johnson, guitar #4
Red Holloway, alto sax #5
Producer: SOS Pro. in conjunction with HOSS, Inc.
Mastered By: Jon Bates/ Downtown Sound Remote & Mix Masters
Cover Design: Paul Bacon
When Junior Mance formed an acoustic piano trio with bassist Keter Betts and drummer Jackie Williams in April 1994, it was obvious that the three jazzmen had a strong chemistry. That group, which came to be called the Floating Jazz Festival Trio, recorded several solid CDs for Chiaroscuro in the '90s; this CD documents some of the trio's live performances aboard the SS Norway (a Caribbean cruise ship) in November 1997. Occasionally, Mance's cohesive trio becomes a quartet. That happens when the big-toned saxophonist Red Holloway has a very pleasing spot on "What's New"; ballads have long been one of Holloway's strong points, and his alto solo is predictably soulful. The disc's other quartet performance is "Junior's G Blues," a 12-bar jazz-blues item that features guitarist Henry Johnson. Regrettably, many of Johnson's over-produced pop-jazzsmooth jazz projects don't give him enough room to stretch out and improvise, but that isn't a problem when the Chicagoan solos on the very straight-ahead "Junior's G Blues." Those two tracks are the CD's only quartet offerings; Mance excels as a trio pianist on standards that include "Lover Man," "Falling in Love With Love" (which is also on the trio's Blue Mance session of 1994), and "Take the 'A' Train" -- in other words, the sort of great-but-overdone standards that jazz fans have heard time and time again over the years. It would have been nice to hear Mance's Floating Jazz Festival trio tackle some songs that haven't been done to death; even so, this CD is a solid, rewarding document of the group's SS Norway performances of 1997.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Junior Mance
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Oct 10, 1928 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Soul-Jazz, Mainstream Jazz
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" DavisJohnny 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 |
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