Straight Ahead! (Junior Mance album)

is an album by jazz pianist Junior Mance, recorded in 1964 and released on the Capitol label.

[1][2] The Allmusic reviewer Dave Nathan stated: "Combining Mance's natural blues-inflected piano with a big horn sound is a true aural treat.

The result is a musical conversation with each side taking turns playing on or over the melody line.

Here it's clear that the band stayed with the charts, but Mance was allowed a good deal of leeway in his playing.

The result is a dynamic session combining the best of a disciplined brass assembly with the unfettered play of a top jazz improvisor".