THE MANTECAS - BLACK NILE (LP)

The Mantecas (formerly known as Manteca) is an eight-piece London-based Latin jazz, soul, and boogaloo band known for creating a party atmosphere at festivals and concerts wherever they go, from Glastonbury, Ealing Festival, and Tropical Pressure Festival to The 606 Club and London's Jazz Café. They have a knack for bridging the cultural gap with any audience, getting crowds onto the dance floor in jive. The Mantecas will leave you speechless with a mesmerizing blend of salsa, cumbia, funk, Latin jazz, and boogaloo. For this new album, the band is exploring the legacy of some of jazz's giants through a Latin lens, reworking timeless pieces by Coltrane, Shorter, Davis, Hubbard, and Perkins, infusing them with Latin rhythms while remaining true to the jazz idiom.