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Junior Mance

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31: 207:. With his father's permission, Mance had his first professional gig in Chicago at the age of ten when his upstairs neighbor, a saxophone player, needed a replacement for a pianist who was ill. Mance was known to his family as "Junior" (to differentiate him from his father), and the nickname stuck with him throughout his professional career. 468:
was released by Verve later that year. A busy release schedule followed, as Mance went on to record six albums for Jazzland/Riverside in the early '60s, and joined the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis/Johnny Griffin quintet which released seven albums with Mance during 1960–1961.
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Junior Mance continued to record and perform during the next three decades, albeit at a less intense pace. He made several duet recordings with bassist Martin Rivera, and two solo piano recordings for Canadian label
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Charlie Parker encouraged Mance to move to New York, which he did after saving money from working nearly a year at the Bee Hive. In 1954, Mance was asked to record with
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From 1990 to 2009 Mance was part of a group called "100 Gold Fingers" which frequently toured Japan. The rotating line-up of all star pianists included
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Discharged from the Army in 1953, Mance immediately started working at the Bee Hive Jazz Club in Chicago, completing the house rhythm section with
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classes, Mance signed up for music classes, though he found that jazz was forbidden by the faculty, and did not finish out the year.
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He died in New York of a brain hemorrhage that he had suffered after a fall, aged 92. He had also been suffering from Alzheimer's.
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offered Mance his first recording date as leader during one of his sessions with Dizzy Gillespie. Granz set Mance up with bassist
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in Chicago in 1947 while he was enrolled at Roosevelt. He recorded with Ammons on September 23 that year for
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The U.S. Army drafted Mance in 1951. Two weeks before shipping out to Korea from basic training,
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Mance and his wife Gloria formed their own record label, JunGlo, in 2007. Their first release,
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came to see Ammons play at the Congo Lounge in Chicago in 1949. Young's piano player,
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Mance performance on television with Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong in 1959
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After the Adderley group broke up for lack of gigs, Adderley became part of the
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was drafted. Mance toured with Washington over the next two years and learned
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completed the trio, which recorded together in April 1959. His debut record
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band, Ammons was "delighted" to let Mance go. Mance recorded with Young for
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In 1956, Mance joined Cannonball Adderley's first civilian band, along with
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in his family's home in Evanston. His father, Julian, taught Mance to play
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over the next two years. Dinah Washington hired this group to back her on
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during a televised performance of the song "Umbrella Man" on
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Mance's mother encouraged him to study medicine at nearby
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in 1965, Carter and Mance took in all three sets of an
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helped Mance score a position in the 36th Army Band at
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Interview with Junior Mance and footage from Cafe Loup
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In the Land of Hi-Fi with Julian Cannonball Adderley
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in Chicago instead. Despite urging him to enroll in
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"Various Artists: 100 Gold Fingers". 893:The Tender Touch of Junior Mance and Martin Rivera 170:(October 10, 1928 – January 17, 2021), known as 2455:The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music 536:The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music 16:American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2021) 2498: 2107: 2105: 8: 546:among his students before retiring in 2011. 445:Debut as leader and later career (1959–2016) 2292: 2290: 2288: 2286: 2284: 2282: 2280: 2278: 2276: 1734:Dexter Gordon with Junior Mance at Montreux 1437:(Jazzland, 1961) with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 1429:(Prestige, 1961) with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 1421:(Prestige, 1961) with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 1413:(Prestige, 1961) with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 1405:(Prestige, 1961) with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 1397:(Jazzland, 1960) with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 2505: 2491: 2483: 2341: 2339: 2333:, January 7, 2011. Web. November 29, 2013. 496:, 1970). During a recording session with 391:. 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He also taught at 429:, while Mance joined 294:Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 2803:Enja Records artists 2675:Junior Mance Special 2667:Truckin' and Trakin' 2611:I Believe to My Soul 2025:(Concord Jazz, 1993) 1983:Confessin' the Blues 1859:Better Than Anything 1562:In the Land of Hi-Fi 1096:At Town Hall, Vol. 2 1090:At Town Hall, Vol. 1 1031:Groovin' With Junior 924:Junior Mance Special 912:Truckin' and Trakin' 834:I Believe to My Soul 528:Junior Mance Special 422:during this period. 398:In the Land of Hi-Fi 2758:Soul-jazz musicians 2627:That Lovin' Feelin' 2595:That's Where It Is! 2149:. 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Index

Mance in 1980
Evanston, Illinois
New York City
Jazz
hard bop
Blues
Riverside
Capitol
Atlantic
jazz
Evanston, Illinois
upright
stride piano
boogie-woogie
Northwestern University
Roosevelt College
pre-med
Gene Ammons
Aladdin Records
Lester Young
Bud Powell
Stan Getz
Woody Herman
Savoy Records
Sonny Stitt
Prestige Records
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Fort Knox
Israel Crosby
Charlie Parker

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