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Blue Mance

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Released
  
April 25, 1995

Label
  
Chiaroscuro CR(D) 331

Release date
  
25 April 1995

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
71:20

Artist
  
Junior Mance

Producer
  
Hank O'Neal

Recorded
  
May 18, 1994 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Blue Mance (1994)
  
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (1994)

Junior Mance albums
  
Harlem Lullaby, Live at the Top, The Soulful Piano of Junior Ma, Happy Time

Blue Mance is an album by jazz pianist Junior Mance recorded in 1994 and released on the Chiaroscuro label in 1989.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars noting "this CD finds Mance and his colleagues in excellent form on well-known standards as well as some lesser-known gems".

Track listing

  1. "Falling in Love with Love" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 5:36
  2. "Head Start" (Keter Betts) - 5:12
  3. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) - 8:10
  4. "Teach Me Tonight" (Gene de Paul, Sammy Cahn) - 5:21
  5. "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) - 9:31
  6. "Blue Mance" (Junior Mance) - 7:35
  7. "Shepherd of the Night Flock" (Duke Ellington) - 5:42
  8. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro) - 5:52
  9. "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (Billy Taylor) - 8:52
  10. "Jazzspeak" - 9:07

Personnel

  • Junior Mance - piano
  • Keter Betts - bass
  • Jackie Williams - drums
  • References

    Blue Mance Wikipedia