Manteca
Context
Track credited to Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller. Pozo composed the introduction and the A section, Gillespie the bridge; the piece was premiered at Carnegie Hall on September 29, 1947. It is often presented as the first jazz standard built on the clave. Pozo died two months after his last recording of the track, in October 1948.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's). Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).
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