# Manteca!

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Manteca!
| type       = Album
| artist     = [Clare Fischer](/source/Clare_Fischer)
| cover      = Manteca!.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = November 1965
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Latin jazz](/source/Latin_jazz)
| length     =
| label      = [Pacific Jazz](/source/Pacific_Jazz_Records)<br>PJ-10096, ST-20096
| producer   = Richard Bock
| chronology = Clare Fischer
| prev_title = [So Danço Samba](/source/So_Dan%C3%A7o_Samba_(Clare_Fischer_album))
| prev_year  = 1964
| next_title = [Easy Livin'](/source/Easy_Livin'_(Clare_Fischer_album))
| next_year  = 1966
| misc       = {{ external media
| float  = center
| audio1  =   You may listen to "'''Dulzura'''" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11v_OXQfmg4 '''here''']
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{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/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>
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'''''Manteca!''''' is an album by composer/arranger/keyboardist [Clare Fischer](/source/Clare_Fischer), released in November 1965 on the [Pacific Jazz](/source/Pacific_Jazz_Records) 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](/source/So_Dan%C3%A7o_Samba_(Clare_Fischer_album))'', devoted primarily to the music of [Antonio Carlos Jobim](/source/Antonio_Carlos_Jobim), and to the [bossa nova](/source/bossa_nova) in general, with this, his first devoted to [Afro-Cuban jazz](/source/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](/source/jazz_standard), [Morning](/source/Morning_(Clare_Fischer_composition)).

==Track listing==

<big>'''Side One'''</big>
# "[Manteca](/source/Manteca_(song))" ([W.G. Fuller](/source/Gil_Fuller)-[J. Gillespie](/source/Dizzy_Gillespie)) - 3:40
# "El Toro" ([Mongo Santamaria](/source/Mongo_Santamaria)) - 3:31
# "[Morning](/source/Morning_(Clare_Fischer_composition))" (Clare Fischer) - 4:05
# "[Afro Blue](/source/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](/source/Sway_(Luis_Demetrio_song))" ([Pablo Beltran Ruiz](/source/Pablo_Beltran_Ruiz)) - 2:45                                         
# "Negrita" (Rudy Calzado) - 3:13

==Personnel==
<big>'''Side One'''</big>
*[Clare Fischer](/source/Clare_Fischer) - organ
*[Conte Candoli](/source/Conte_Candoli), [Bobby Bryant](/source/Bobby_Bryant_(musician)), Don Smith, and [A.D. Brisbois](/source/Bud_Brisbois) - trumpet
*Gil Falco and Bob Edmondson - trombone
*Ernie Tack - bass trombone
*[Ralph Peña](/source/Ralph_Pe%C3%B1a_(musician)) - bass
*Nicholas "Cuco" Martinez - timbales
*Adolfo "Chino" Valdes and [Carlos Vidal](/source/Carlos_Vidal_Bolado) - conga
*Rudy Calzado - cencero and güiro

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

==References==
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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](/source/Blogspot)
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Category:Pacific Jazz Records albums

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