jostber Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 Jazztimes interview: http://jazztimes.com/articles/29295-junior-mance-saved-by-a-cannonball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 (edited) That's how Cannonball was - we all can be be eternally grateful .... I've always liked Mance, but never got around to buying one of his solo albums. I'll have to correct this. Edited October 20, 2012 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 To be released November 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 I've liked Junior for decades but loved him since I saw him live at the Brecon Jazz Fest in 2000. Great story! MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 I became an instant Junior Mance fan the first time I heard his solo on "Light And Lovely" from the Lockaw/Griffin album "The Tenor Scene". Have several of his albums as a leader and thoroughly enjoy them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Nice to see Junior getting some well-desrved attention. He's a lovely guy, and one of the great blues-drenched pianists, ever. Nice to see the article refer to the two Sackville solo records -- they were his first solo piano efforts. (Full disclosure: I recorded one-and-a-half of them). While the blues is at the centre of Junior's music, the version of Ellington's Single Petal Of A Rose on the 'Jubilation' CD is, I think, the best interpretation after Duke's own... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roundsound Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 I was wondering why Cannonball never employed Junior Mance in the 1960's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 Nice to see Junior getting some well-desrved attention. He's a lovely guy, and one of the great blues-drenched pianists, ever. Nice to see the article refer to the two Sackville solo records -- they were his first solo piano efforts. (Full disclosure: I recorded one-and-a-half of them). While the blues is at the centre of Junior's music, the version of Ellington's Single Petal Of A Rose on the 'Jubilation' CD is, I think, the best interpretation after Duke's own... Nice job, Ted; I've got both of them. I was wondering why Cannonball never employed Junior Mance in the 1960's. He was working for Diz a lot of the time, wasn't he? And Jaws/Griff. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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