title: Junior Mance Special
text: # Junior Mance Special
  
  Junior Mance Special is a solo album by jazz pianist Junior Mance recorded in the studio and live and released on the Sackville label in 1989.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  | The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
  
  The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars, noting: "While he's best at blues-tinged material, Mance shows the versatility necessary to do other material and doesn't substitute clichés and gimmicks for ideas and substance".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Yancey Special" (Meade Lux Lewis, Andy Razaf) - 5:15
  * "Careless Love (Traditional) - 6:54
  * "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) - 3:50
  * "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (Billy Taylor) - 6:03
  * "Since I Lost My Baby I Almost Lost My Mind" (Ivory Joe Hunter) - 6:18
  * "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 5:54
  * "In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) - 6:21
  * "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) - 6:45
  * "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) - 7:14
  * "Flat on Your Face" (Junior Mance) - 5:08
  * Recorded at Cherry Beach Sound in Toronto, Canada on September 14, 1986 (tracks 1-5), and Cafe des Copains, Toronto, Canada on November 30, 1988 (tracks 6-10)
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Junior Mance - piano
  