Manteca / Cool Breeze
by Dizzy Gillespie
- Type: Single
- Released: August 1948
- Label: Victor
- Country: United States
- Length: 5:33
- Community rating: 3.99/5 from 3 ratings
Artists on this release: Kenny Hagood
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Bridging explosive bebop brass sections with dense, polyrhythmic conga patterns, this track effectively functioned as a monumental manifesto for Afro-Cuban jazz. The brilliantly complex instrumental interplay revolutionized the rhythmic capabilities of the modern big band.
Genres
Descriptors: improvisation, rhythmic, instrumental, complex
Tracklist
- Manteca (2:57)
- Cool Breeze (2:36)
Credits
- Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra - primary artist, backing vocals, written-by
- Kenny Hagood - backing vocals
- Chano Pozo - written-by
- Tadd Dameron - written-by