Product Details
- Artist: Santana
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0696998669826
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- Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
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- Label: Sony
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- Manufacturer: Sony
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- Number of Discs: 2
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Sony
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- Release Date: 2002-10-22
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- Studio: Sony
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- Title: Essential Santana
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- UPC: 696998669826
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: 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
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Customer Reviews
santana sucks
tabla's to annoying cheesy crappy solo's for 40 mins.....no thanks. This is the elevator music from hell.
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BAD EDIT
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.
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Santana's Best Hits Are Great Listening
I listened to the entire first disc while cleaning my room and this is a great CD. I started listening to the second disc yesterday and continued to finish listening to the rest of the songs from that CD. The first CD is more grounded in African and Latin rhythms. It is more holistic. The second CD is more mainstream. There are two songs that I recognize "Winning" and "Hold On". They played on the radio and Solid Gold when I was a kid. But the CD compilation is great to listen and dance to. This is a good investment to hold on to!
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A must-have for the Classic Rock fan!
Owner of an extensive Classic Rock collection, mostly "Best of" compilations, I found this to be hugely worthwhile! There's about 10 (out of 35?) songs that prove to be as good as anything else I have. (Almost all the rest are forgettable.) 5-star songs I've never heard on the radio. I couldn't be happier with it!
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Nearly perfect
The Essential Santana, like most releases in the Essential series is missing one key track. That track is "Hope You're Feeling Better" from Abraxas. Other than that the track listing is stellar, except it would've been nice to have the studio version of "Dance Sister Dance".
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