''Manteca!'' is an album by composer/arranger/keyboardist

Clare Fischer Douglas Clare Fischer (October 22, 1928 – January 26, 2012) was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. After graduating from Michigan State University (from which, five decades later, he would receive an honorary doctorate ...

, released in November 1965 on the

Pacific Jazz Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles-based record company and label best known for cool jazz or West coast jazz. It was founded in 1952 by producer Richard Bock (1927–1988) and drummer Roy Harte (1924–2003). Harte, in 1954, also co-founded ...

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

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, and to the

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in general, with this, his first devoted to

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(even reinterpreting one of Jobim's compositions accordingly). Fischer also used the occasion to unveil what would become his second bona fide

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Track listing

Side One # " Manteca" ( W.G. Fuller- J. Gillespie) - 3:40 # "El Toro" (

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) - 3:31 # "

" (Clare Fischer) - 4:05 # "

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" (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 *

- organ *

Conte Candoli Secondo "Conte" Candoli (July 12, 1927 – December 14, 2001) was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orch ...

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, 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 *

- 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
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