{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Manteca! | type = Album | artist = Clare Fischer | cover = Manteca!.jpg | alt = | released = November 1965 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Latin jazz | length = | label = Pacific Jazz<br>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 | misc = {{ external media | float = center | audio1 = You may listen to "'''Dulzura'''" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11v_OXQfmg4 '''here'''] }}}}

{{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=Allmusic>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/clare-fischer-mn0000128694 "Clare Fischer: Manteca! (Overview)"]. Allmusic. Retrieved 2013-03-19.</ref> }}

'''''Manteca!''''' is an album by composer/arranger/keyboardist Clare Fischer, released in November 1965 on the Pacific Jazz label.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MykEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT145&dq=Manteca+%22clare+Fischer%22&hl "New Album Releases"]. ''Billboard''. November 20, 1965. Retrieved 2013-03-19.</ref> 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==

<big>'''Side One'''</big> # "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 <big>'''Side Two'''</big> # "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== <big>'''Side One'''</big> *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

<big>'''Side Two'''</big> *Clare Fischer - piano *Richard West - bass *Nicholas "Cuco" Martinez - timbales *Adolfo "Chino" Valdes and Carlos Vidal - conga *Rudy Calzado - cencero and güiro

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== External links == * [https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LO8xu98Nq_I/T01fGcSlm1I/AAAAAAAAAgE/iZBPXnpy-l4/s1600/fischer2.jpg Album back cover] at Blogspot {{Clare Fischer}}

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