Manteca!


Manteca! is an album by composer/arranger/keyboardist Clare Fischer, released in November 1965 on the Pacific Jazz label. Following his previous album, So Danço Samba, devoted primarily to the music of Antonio [Carlos Jobim], and to the bossa nova in general, with this, his first devoted to Afro-Cuban jazz. Fischer also used the occasion to unveil what would become his second bona fide jazz standard, Morning.

Track listing

Side One
  1. "Manteca" - 3:40
  2. "El Toro" - 3:31
  3. "Morning" - 4:05
  4. "Afro Blue" - 3:30
Side Two
  1. "Favela" - 4:10
  2. "Marguerite " - 2:28
  3. "Dulzura" - 3:12
  4. "Sway" - 2:45
  5. "Negrita" - 3:13

    Personnel

Side One
Side Two
  • Clare Fischer - piano
  • Richard West - bass
  • Nicholas "Cuco" Martinez - timbales
  • Adolfo "Chino" Valdes and Carlos Vidal - conga
  • Rudy Calzado - cencero and güiro