Manteca! Explained

Manteca!
Type:	Album
Artist:	Clare Fischer
Cover:	Manteca!.jpg
Released:	November 1965
Genre:	Latin jazz
Label:	Pacific Jazz PJ-10096, ST-20096
Producer:	Richard Bock
Chronology:	Clare Fischer
Prev Title:	So Danço Samba
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	Easy Livin'
Next Year:	1966

Manteca! is an album by composer/arranger/keyboardist Clare Fischer, released in November 1965 on the Pacific Jazz label.^[1] 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

1. "Manteca" (W.G. Fuller-J. Gillespie) - 3:40
2. "El Toro" (Mongo Santamaria) - 3:31
3. "Morning" (Clare Fischer) - 4:05
4. "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria) - 3:30

Side Two

1. "Favela" (O Morro) (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 4:10
2. "Marguerite (Suegra)" (Clare Fischer) - 2:28
3. "Dulzura" (Clare Fischer) - 3:12
4. "Sway" (Pablo Beltran Ruiz) - 2:45
5. "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

External links

• Album back cover at Blogspot

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=MykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT145&dq=Manteca+%22clare+Fischer%22&hl "New Album Releases"