Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard

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Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard
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Live album by
Junior Mance
Released1961
RecordedFebruary 22–23, 1961
Venue Village Vanguard, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length42:10
Label Jazzland
JLP 41
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Junior Mance chronology
The Soulful Piano of Junior Mance
(1960)		Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard
(1961)		 Big Chief!
(1961)

Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard is a live album by jazz pianist Junior Mance which was recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1961 and released on the Jazzland label. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
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The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer wrote that the album was inferior to The Soulful Piano of Junior Mance , because it lacked emotion and indivduality. [4] The AllMusic site awarded the album 4½ stars stating: "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". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Junior Mance except where noted.

  1. "Looptown" - 5:05
  2. "Letter from Home" - 4:50
  3. "Girl of My Dreams" (Sunny Clapp) - 4:01
  4. "63rd Street Theme" (Johnny Griffin) - 6:17
  5. "Smokey Blues" - 6:36
  6. "9:20 Special" (William Engvick, Earle Warren) - 5:10
  7. "Bingo Domingo" (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) - 4:41
  8. "You Are Too Beautiful" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:30

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzland Records discography accessed November 9, 2012
  2. ↑ Junior Mance discography accessed August 15, 2016
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed November 9, 2012
  4. 1 2 Wilson, John S. (September 28, 1961). "Junior Mance: At the Villige Vanguard". DownBeat . Vol. 28, no. 20. pp. 33–34.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 927. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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