Mantecas
Black Nile
The Mantecas (formerly known as Manteca) is an eight piece, London-based, Latin jazz, soul and boogaloo band well known for creating a party mood at festivals and gigs everywhere they go, from Glastonbury, Ealing Festival and Tropical Pressure Festival to The 606 Club and The Jazz Café in London. They have a particular ability for bridging the culture gap with any audience getting all crowds up hitting the dance floor in a jive. The Mantecas will blow your mind with a mesmerising mix of salsa, cumbia, funk, Latin jazz and boogaloo. For this album, the band is exploring the legacy of some of the jazz giants through a Latin lens, reworking timeless pieces by Coltrane, Shorter, Davis, Hubbard and Perkins, giving them the infusion of Latin rhythms while remaining true to the jazz language. SIDE 1: 1. Mahjong (Wayne Shorter) 2. Groove Yard (Carl Perkins) 3. Up Jumped Spring (Freddie Hubbard) SIDE 2: 1. Lazy Bird (John Coltrane) 2. Black Nile (Wayne Shorter) 3. Blue In Green (Miles Davis)