I Believe to My Soul (album)

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I Believe to My Soul
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1968
RecordedSeptember 12, 1966 and August 3 & 4, 1967
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length37:04
Label Atlantic
SD 1496
Producer Joel Dorn
Junior Mance chronology
Harlem Lullaby
(1966)
I Believe to My Soul
(1968)
The Good Life
(1967)

I Believe to My Soul is an album by jazz pianist Junior Mance which was released on the Atlantic label in 1968. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with the review by Dave Nathan stating, "Mance never ventures far from that jazzy soulfulness which characterized his playing. This is a good representative recording by an artist who was never able to raise himself to the top tier of jazz pianists". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Junior Mance except where indicated

  1. "I Believe to My Soul" (Ray Charles) - 5:11
  2. "A Time and a Place" (Jimmy Heath) - 5:07
  3. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) - 3:13
  4. "Golden Spur" - 5:06
  5. "Don't Worry 'Bout It" - 2:08
  6. "Home on the Range" (Traditional) - 6:47
  7. "Sweets for My Sweet" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) - 5:41
  8. "My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:51


Personnel

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References

  1. Atlantic Records Catalog: 1400 Series accessed September 18, 2015
  2. Junior Mance discography Archived 2014-02-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 18, 2015
  3. 1 2 Nathan, Dave. I Believe to My Soul – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved September 18, 2015.