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| 1. | Looptown
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| 2. | Letter from Home
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| 3. | Girl of My Dreams
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| 4. | 63rd Street Theme
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| 5. | Smokey Blues
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| 6. | Special
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| 7. | Bingo Domingo
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| 8. | You Are Too Beautiful
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Jazz
Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York, New York in February 1961
Junior Mance - Piano
Ben Riley - Drums
Larry Gales - Bass
Junior Mance began his recording career during the early heyday of something known as "soul jazz"--a volatile mixture of blues, bebop, and gospel forcefully exemplified by bands like those of Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver, and by the compositions of Silver, Bobby Timmons, and Mance himself. This 1961 album was one of his first, taped during performances at New York's Village Vanguard (a favorite Riverside/Jazzland recording site). It came just after the end of a sideman career under leaders ranging from Lester Young and Gene Ammons to Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie. The spirit and conviction of Junior's blues-filled work here strongly demonstrates that as a "soul" pianist he was a pacesetter and not a trend-follower--and so does the fact that he has continued ever since as a powerful player in this idiom.
Pianist Junior Mance has long been typecast as a soulful blues player so, as if to confuse listeners, he starts off this live set with an uptempo "Looptown" on which he displays technique worthy of Oscar Peterson. Mance's many fans have no reason to despair though for, in addition to a boppish rendition of "Girl of My Dreams," the pianist does perform a generous amount of blues and soulful pieces. Bassist Larry Gales and drummer Ben Riley also help out .
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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