by Matthew Greenwald One of the great soundtracks of the 1960's, Up The Junction shows Manfred Mann shedding their pop skin and evolving into a truly awesome jazz outfit, which would later be fully realized in their " Chapter Three " incarnation. Not that they didn't have some lovely pop gems on this record. The title song, which is sort of a flipped out, very, very British alternative to "Good Vibrations" is one of the Manfred 's finest pieces, ever, with an excellent vocal from Mike D'abo , Paul Jones (original Manfred 's vocalist) replacement. But the series of brief jazz-based instrumentals such as "Sheila's Dance" and "Belgravia" are equally arresting, showing off Mike Hugg 's drumming and Mann 's own piano abilities as never before. Priceless.