Remembering Junior Mance

Oct 10, 2024

The respected and irrepressibly swinging jazz pianist and sideman to Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Sarah Vaughan and others would've turned 96 on this day

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Wytze van der Raay

Oct 10

Thank you for this wonderful tribute to Junior Mance, an unsung hero.

That story about Cannonball and the army is absolutely spectacular, I never read it before.

Thanks for the reprint!

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Remembering Junior Mance