Manteca (album)

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Manteca
Manteca Red Garland.jpg
Studio album by
Released1958
RecordedApril 11, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length39:58original LP
47:16 CD reissue
Label Prestige
PRLP 7139 [1]
Producer Bob Weinstock
Red Garland chronology
It's a Blue World
(1970)
Manteca
(1958)
Can't See for Lookin'
(1963)
Professional ratings
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Manteca is an album by jazz pianist Red Garland, released in 1958 on Prestige Records. [4] [5] The CD reissue included a bonus track recorded during the same session. [6]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Manteca" (Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo, Gil Fuller) – 8:07
  2. "S'Wonderful" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 6:42
  3. "Lady Be Good" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 5:50
  4. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 7:08
  5. "Mort's Report" (Garland) – 12:11
  6. "Portrait of Jenny" (Gordon Burdge, J. Russel Robinson) – 7:18 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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