Manteca features vocalists Liana Allegra Barciela and Rod Choromanski from KZN, Raul Rodriguez from Cuba and Kelly Burrows from Madagascar, award-winning Durban pianist David Langely, Durban's own Mark Momple on bass, Durbanite Jonathon Judge and Johan van der Molen from Holland on saxophones, local jazz trumpeter Daniel Sheldon, and percussionists John Drace from California and Alberto Chemane from Mozambique