Santana (Vinyl LP) Jazz

Santana (Vinyl LP) Jazz'Santana' is the debut studio from Latin rock legend Carlos Santana and released in 1969. Over half of the album's length is composed of instrumental music, recorded by what was originally a purely free form jam band. At the suggestion of manager Bill Graham, the band took to writing more conventional songs for more impact, but managed to retain the essence of improvisation in the music. By the time Santana arrived on the San Francisco scene in 1968,

The classic opener 'Domino' finds him wailing over a punchy horn section and insistent

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African guitarist Ali Farka Toure's previous releases were wonderful mixes of traditional language and rhythms being supported by contemporary concerns

who also created the 23-inch square poster found tucked inside

Superb acoustic guitarwork weaves a path throughout the bewitching melodies

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Recorded at Arrest Studios in Washington D

Pressed on vinyl for the first time ever

By the time he entered college

was thrown out of an upstairs window

they call this indefinable quality

only to slowly strip down to a barebones groove