Soul Sacrifice: The Santana Story [Paperback] Review

First, I am a professional guitarist of 25 years who believes Carlos Santana has only four guitar peers:Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Benson, and John McLaughlin.So this is a biased review.And now the review:
It's about time a book attempts to document the history and significance of this important musician and band.Mr. Leng, a first-time author, has done a fine job. Here are six challenges that Mr. Leng met with impressive success:
(1) Explaining how a very specific aspect of Mexican music - playing melodies expressively - influenced Carlos's style.
(2) Explaining how each individual member influenced the band's sound.
(3) Explaining the difficulties of keeping everyone - from pop fans to jazz fans to record companies to managers to musicians - happy.
(4) Explaining Carlos's conscious recording of "corny" commercial music to finance the recording of his more adventuresome music.
(5) Explaining how Carlos is trapped (for better and for worse) in the "Santana Band."
(6) Explaining the true weight / quality / genius / level / importance / influence of Carlos and the band.
(7) Explaining the greatness (and that's an understatement) of the percussionists which have played in the band, particularly Armando Peraza.
(8) Documenting the long list of non-Santana band artists with whom Carlos has recorded.
Sooner or later a professional music historian will publish a more comprehensive book - say 1,000 pages.This book will be aimed at more serious students of music history.
The book will expand as follows:
(a) It will discuss Carlos's equipment.Carlos has influenced electric guitar and amplifier design more than any other modern guitarist except Jimi Hendrix. (b) It will explain in musical terms why Carlos's playing has so much "feeling."Put simply, Carlos uses a large variety of subtle nuances to make every note count.Like Pavarotti and Isaac Stern.
(c) It will contain hundreds of photos.
I wish I could be the author of this great book.I would title it "Espiritu - Carlos Santana."

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