Manteca! is an album by composer/arranger/keyboardist Clare Fischer, released in November 1965 on the Pacific Jazz label."New Album Releases". Billboard. November 20, 1965. Retrieved 2013-03-19. 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 (even reinterpreting one of Jobim's compositions accordingly). Fischer also used the occasion to unveil what would become his second bona fide jazz standard, Morning.
Track listing
Side One "Manteca" (W.G. Fuller-J. Gillespie) - 3:40 "El Toro" (Mongo Santamaria) - 3:31 "Morning" (Clare Fischer) - 4:05 "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria) - 3:30 Side Two "Favela" (O Morro) (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 4:10 "Marguerite (Suegra)" (Clare Fischer) - 2:28 "Dulzura" (Clare Fischer) - 3:12 "Sway" (Pablo Beltran Ruiz) - 2:45 "Negrita" (Rudy Calzado) - 3:13
Personnel Side One Clare Fischer - organ Conte Candoli, Bobby Bryant, Don Smith, and A.D. Brisbois - trumpet Gil Falco and Bob Edmondson - trombone Ernie Tack - bass trombone Ralph Peña - bass Nicholas "Cuco" Martinez - timbales Adolfo "Chino" Valdes and Carlos Vidal - conga Rudy Calzado - cencero and güiro
Side Two Clare Fischer - piano Richard West - bass Nicholas "Cuco" Martinez - timbales Adolfo "Chino" Valdes and Carlos Vidal - conga Rudy Calzado - cencero and güiro
References
External links Album back cover at Blogspot