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I Believe to My Soul (album)

1968 studio album by Junior Mance

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2023
Entity authorityQ22678341 ↗
Source-derived summary

I Believe to My Soul is an album by jazz pianist Junior Mance which was released on the Atlantic label in 1968.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with the review by Dave Nathan stating, "Mance never ventures far from that jazzy soulfulness which characterized his playing. This is a good representative recording by an artist who was never able to raise himself to the top tier of jazz pianists".

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “I Believe to My Soul (album)” as 1968 studio album by Junior Mance. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Believe, Soul and album.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-02. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Believe, Soul and album providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q22678341. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “I Believe to My Soul (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.