Work · 1947 · New York City [40.71, -74.01]
Manteca
Co-written by Dizzy Gillespie with the Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo and arranger Gil Fuller, "Manteca" fused bebop harmony with Afro-Cuban rhythm into one of the first widely heard Latin-jazz standards. Its layered, clave-driven groove opened a path that Gillespie pursued throughout the late 1940s. The piece marks bebop's outward turn toward the rhythms of the Caribbean.
Evidence1
- Wikidata: MantecaWikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6752003
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Connections1
collaborates with → Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie co-wrote "Manteca" with the Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo and arranger Gil Fuller, grafting Afro-Cuban rhythm onto bebop harmony. The collaboration opened a Latin-jazz lineage that the trumpeter pursued for the rest of the decade. It shows bebop reaching outward from its New York core toward the rhythms of the Caribbean.