Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles-Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! (1972)

 



Artist:  Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles

Title: Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles!  Live!

Label: Columbia

Format: LP

Catalog Number: KC 31308

Year of Release: 1972

Country and Year of Edition: US 1972 with insert

Sell Price: $4.88

Sell Date: 5/26/26

Condition: VG+/VG

Discogs Last Sold: 5/25/26 VG/VG $4.00

Low: $0.99 G+/G 1/3/26

Median: $5.36

Average: $8.44

High: $35.00 M/VG+ sealed never opened  3/21/26

Current low price: $1.98 G/VG, $3.99 VG/VG includes insert

Current Number on Sale at Discogs:  144

Have/Want: 5559/219

Where Sold: Charleston, SC

Time It Took To Sell:   3 years

Where and When Bought:  Facebook marketplace lot

Gwiz-gau Grade:  A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Carlos Santana's live pairing with Buddy Miles released in 1972 was hot off the heals of Santana's peak era.  Miles also was a couple years away from Band of Gypsies with Hendrix, so there was a bit of gravitas with this specific duo. It sold well but it ain't a pop record.  Even the obligatory "Evil Ways" gets a speeded up, horn laden, new arrangement.

Many of the Santana mainstays are here: Neal Schon on guitar, Michael Carabello on percussion, Greg Errico was on drums the last Santana album.  Bob Hogins on organ was on Buddy Miles solo records.  So this was a bit of a musician marriage of  bands.  Buddy Miles  song "Them Changes" closes out side one, so by the end of the first half we get a signature song from each co-leader.

Then the jamming begins.  This is the meat of the record, a side long free form jam.  The whole thing was performed at a festival in Hawaii early in '72;  By the Fall, it was in Billboard's top 10 albums.  It sold half million in the US fast and matched that in catalog sales throughout the 70's into the mid-80s'finally going Platinum in 1986.  Still, this live release seems less a canonical one and more of a transition into the jazz-fusion work of the 70's.  Future collaborator John McLaughlin's "Marbles" opens the album.

Excellent listen start to finish.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Santana (1969)

Abraxis (1970)

Santana (III) (1971)

Moonflower (1977)

Hendrix-Band of Gypsys (1970)

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