Junior Mance

Julian Clifford Mance(1928年10月10日出在伊利諾伊州的埃文斯頓)藝名叫做Junior Mance，是美國爵士樂鋼琴表演家，同時也是一名作曲家。他在5歲時開始彈鋼琴，直到8歲才開始接受正規(guī)的訓(xùn)練，在他青少年時期便開始擔(dān)任芝加哥羅斯福大學(xué)音樂會的主要表演者。1974年他離開了羅斯福學(xué)院加入了另一個樂隊，開始了他的職業(yè)生涯。
by Scott Yanow
Junior Mance is well-known for his soulful bluesy style, but he is also expert at playing bop standards. He started playing professionally when he was ten. Mance worked with Gene Ammons in Chicago during 1947-1949, played with Lester Young (1950), and was with the Ammons-Sonny Stitt group until he was drafted. He was the house pianist at Chicagos Bee Hive (1953-1954), worked as Dinah Washingtons accompanist (1954-1955), was in the first Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1956-1957), and then spent two years touring with Dizzy Gillespie (1958-1960). After a few months with the Eddie Lockjaw Davis/Johnny Griffin group, Mance formed his own trio and has mostly been a leader ever since. He has led sessions for Verve, Jazzland, Riverside, Capitol, Atlantic, Milestone, Polydor, Inner City, JSP, Nilva, Sackville, and Bee Hive, among other labels.