Junior | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Junior Mance |
Cover: | Junior (Junior Mance album).jpg |
Released: | 1959 |
Recorded: | April 9, 1959 New York City |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 44:44 |
Label: | Verve MGV 8319/MGVS 6057 |
Producer: | Norman Granz |
Chronology: | Junior Mance |
Next Title: | The Soulful Piano of Junior Mance |
Next Year: | 1960 |
Junior is the debut album led by jazz pianist Junior Mance which was recorded in 1959 and released on the Verve label.[1] [2] Norman Granz offered Mance the opportunity to record his own album after working on the sessions that produced Dizzy Gillespie's Have Trumpet, Will Excite!.[3]
The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars.[4]
All compositions by Junior Mance except where noted.