Junior Mance, an unfailingly tasteful pianist whose affinity for the blues served him well over a 70-year career, died on Jan. 17 at home in New York City.
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Dyads (Out Of Your Head): “Michael and Peter Formanek started making music and improvising together before Peter started school. Regular visits to their home from friends and colleagues like Tim Berne, Jim Black, Marty Ehrlich and many others only served to normalize this as being an essential part of human interaction. During much of their time living in Baltimore and as Peter began to study music formally (first on guitar then on saxophones and woodwinds), it was just part of daily life to have musicians come by to play, rehearse, or just hang out. This eventually turned into regular groups and collaborations that performed in local venues in and around Baltimore. For Peter’s eighteenth birthday they played a night of Michael’s music at the Cornelia Street Cafe with a lineup of Tim Berne and Peter Formanek on saxophones, Jacob Sacks on piano, Jim Black on drums, and Michael Formanek on bass. Peter went to University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2
Junior Mance, jazz pianist and educator, dies at 92
By Adam Feibel via Facebook
Jazz pianist Junior Mance, who recorded more than 50 albums as a leader and many more as a sideman, has died at the age of 92.
A prolific performer, Mance was also an educator who taught at The New School in New York for 23 years, counting Brad Mehldau and Larry Goldings among his students.
Mance was a hard-bop pianist with a soulful style inspired by gospel and spiritual hymns. He played with a uniquely gentle, sensitive style and was known for his quick fingers and inspired chord choices.
Mance’s wife announced his death on Facebook on Jan. 17.
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