Carlos Santana is known for his powerful and emotive guitar playing and his solos are…
January 2023
Prelude
Contempo
Even back when he was a Billboard charting artist, Ray Obiedo’s music was too eclectic…
Magazine Features
Carlos Santana and Michael Shrieve look back at the album Clive Davis told them was…
After 16 years with Santana, trumpeter Bill Ortiz releases a sizzling Afro-Cuban-flavored jazz album that…
To celebrate its Golden Jubilee, Tower of Power, America’s preeminent soul-funk-R&B horn band for half…
Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana and her husband, guitarist Carlos Santana, make their best music where…
Auditions
Jazz artists reach for transcendence in a variety of ways. Spirituality and variations on “soul…
Drum sets and hand drums drive the action on recent releases. “Drums” and “percussion” often…
Under the spell of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Pharoah Sanders, Carlos Santana recorded a…