Re: santana and other stuff (was: Sunfest '97)

Ross Karavis (choc@acs.itd.uts.EDU.AU)
Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:29:54 +1100 (EST)


If you like the ealry latino sound of Santana, you have to check out the
album 'Welcome'. There is some fast and furious guitar playing but the
keyboard work by Greg Rollie (???) is stunning. This really is one of the
precursors to acid jazz. Not straight jazz funk. Not quite jazz fusion.
Not quite 70's salsa. He really seems to be experimenting and getting off
on some of the work that Miles was doing but really gicving it his own
twist. this is some of strangest music I have ever heard. It ranks right
up there with mid -period Weather Report for its sonic qulaities. Maybe
it's the frustarted hippy in me coming out.....

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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Mark Allerton wrote:

> At 22:21 12/01/97 -0500, Pedro Cevallos wrote:
> >Carlos Santana and Albita? I'm there for sure.
>
> Speaking of Carlos (of whom I'm quite a fan - it's hereditary on my Dad's
> side) I heard some great stuff I hadn't heard before over the Xmas period.
> Firstly "Illuminations" by Devadip Carlos Santana & Alice Coltrane, from
> 1974, which has just been re-released. This is basically Santana does the
> jazz thing with strings and harp, and it sounds wonderful. I also heard
> "Song of the Wind" (from "Caravanserai") for the first time. Amazing. What
> I hope though is that CBS get around to releasing "Oneness" on CD...
>
> ObjAj (sorta): anyone else heard the Chaka Khan/Me'shell collaboration
> "Never Miss The Water", from the new "Epiphany" best-of? _very_ funky, in a
> sort of uptempo Rufus style, but with the Me'shell/David Gamson touches
> that press all the right buttons with me. Another good thing on this comp
> is (bizarrely) a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere". You'd be hard
> pressed to tell the source unless you caught the name Christine McVie in
> the writer credit.
>
> ..Mark..
>