Junior Mance

Julian Clifford Mance(1928年10月10日出在伊利诺伊州的埃文斯顿)艺名叫做Junior Mance，是美国爵士乐钢琴表演家，同时也是一名作曲家。他在5岁时开始弹钢琴，直到8岁才开始接受正规的训练，在他青少年时期便开始担任芝加哥罗斯福大学音乐会的主要表演者。1974年他离开了罗斯福学院加入了另一个乐队，开始了他的职业生涯。
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.