CD 9114-2

Junior Mance  piano Earl May  bass Jackie Williams  drums titles 1. Nadja (5:24)  -  2. Harlem Lullabye (8:58)  -  3. This Can’t Be Love (8:48)  -  4. You Don’t Know What Love Is (8:39)  -  5. Some Other Blues (10:55)  -  6. How Insensitive (11:04)  -  7. C.C. Rider (7:06)  -  8. Reverend J. (7:25)

Veteran pianist Junior Mance has worked and recorded with Jazz greats like Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey. He accompanied singers like Dinah Washington and Aretha Franklin. Since the late 1980s he has been an acclaimed member of New Yorks New School and has given piano lessons to rising stars like Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings and Stephen Scott.

On "Nadja" Mance shows his gentle lyrical and thoughtful side as well as his blues-drenched and soulful take on bop and hard bop. The Junior Mance Trio delivers classicism the way it’s supposed to be ! Clear, unpretentious, prodigiously swinging piano improvisations on standards and originals.

Junior Mance is also featured on his CDs:
enja classic jazz 8080 SOFTLY AS IN A MORNING SUNRISE
enja classic jazz 9085 AT TOWN HALL vol I
enja classic jazz 9095 AT TOWN HALL vol.II
Junior Mance appears also on
enja classic jazz 2038 Ben Webster - Tenor Giants.

Producer: Horst Weber / Engineer: David Baker / Location: Sound on Sound,N.Y.C. / Rec.Date: May 14, 1998
Cover design: Michael Stückl