Essential Santana Music Cd

Santana - Essential Santana

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Essential Santana      Artist : Santana      List Price : $24.98 USD        Your Price : $13.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2002-10-22      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (24 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Essential Santana      santana sucks      Rating:      tabla's to annoying cheesy crappy solo's for 40 mins.....no thanks. This is the elevator music from hell.     Customer Reviews for Essential Santana Cd      BAD EDIT      Rating:      The Essential SANTANA This album is a really really bad edit. The songs cut into each other. Tracks from the albums these songs were taken from start a few bars before the song which is supose to be playing starts. I like carlos work very much, but the producers of this album really suck big time. I am thinking about re-editing this album and burning it for myself. It drives me nuts. That is why I could not recomend this album. Buy the individual songs and put it together yourself. Don't wast your money on album unless you plan on doing your own edit to fix it up. ULTIMATE SANTANA on the other hand is a very good edit. But it does not contain all the tracks found on Essential. Editorial Reviews for Essential Santana Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Guitar hero, world-music pioneer, and Latin-rock superstar--Carlos Santana embodies them all on this 33-track double-disc anthology of the legend's first 20 years in music. Yet none of those labels seem to capture the true musical essence of the mercurial, Mexican-born icon. Literally from the very beginning here (the furiously rhythmic 1969 reworking of Nigerian star Babatunde's Olatunji's "Jingo"), Santana cuts his own rewarding and peculiar swath across rock history, whether giving similar "Jingo" treatment to Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" or infusing the meat-and-potatoes R&B of "Everybody's Everything" with his emotional soloing. While that familiar, warm guitar tone adds compelling new dimensions to covers of staples like the Zombies' "She's Not There" and the Classics IV's "Stormy," as well as to the string of '80s hits also included here, it's the sense of spiritual freedom he gives tracks like Joe Zawinul's "In a Silent Way" and the gorgeous, understated "Europa" that seem his greatest legacy. And lest anyone thought the pop affectations of the Grammy-winning Supernatural a fluke, there are plenty of reminders in the set's second half (the joyous funk of "Vera Cruz," his bluesy duet with John Lee Hooker, "The Healer") to remind us that Santana's commercial timing has oft been as masterful as his fleet-fingered soloing. --Jerry McCulley