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