Santana 
Variations: Carlos Santana*, Santana.
The best album credited to Santana is Abraxas which is ranked number 472 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 3,585.
Santana is ranked number 197 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 10,300.
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- Chester Thompson
- Francisco Aguabella
- Rodney Holmes
- David Sancious
- Greg Walker
- Dennis Chambers
- Gregg Rolie
- Cindy Blackman
- Benny Rietveld
- Armando Peraza
- Bill Ortiz
- Carlos Santana
- Michael Shrieve
- Alphonso Johnson
- See also:
- Dennis Chambers / Biréli Lagrène / Dominique Di Piazza
- Santana Brothers
- Abraxas Pool
- The Fusion Syndicate
- The Zawinul Syndicate
- The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band
- Journey
- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
- Weather Report
- Tower Of Power
- Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
- Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles
- Stomu Yamashta's Go
- Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana
- Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
- Michael Shrieve & Steve Roach
- The Isley Brothers & Santana
- Scott Henderson / Jeff Berlin / Dennis Chambers
- Bobby And The Midnites
- Jack Bruce And Friends
- Jonas Hellborg With Buckethead And Michael Shrieve
- The Storm
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Santana best tracks
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 08/18/2025 15:25 | steve397 | 57 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/27/2025 11:24 |  doombringer | 209 | 85/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2025 15:50 | Invader666 | 337 | 71/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 2% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 81.1/100, a mean average of 80.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.7/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 13.9.
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Santana forum mentions
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Man I was so dumb. Or I was so young that I did enjoy Smooth from 99 that I didn't have the massive care for music that I do now. Decided to listen to Borboletta and so far it is incredible. Might have to get through a good chunk of his discog during the summertime.
Love Santana's Abraxas! Started listening to it as an early teen when it came out. And it is still a top pick of mine.
Recording artists (including the producers and engineers) were learning to play with multi-track recording in this era.
Check out the 1st track on side A. "Singing Winds and Crying Beasts" but PUT ON HEADPHONES, lay back and close your eyes. Check out if the music passes back and forth through your head. It's very groovy!
Enjoy!
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/14/2015 19:04 | #136768
Brilliant guitar player. Two vital and two decent albums in the 70s. One slightly misdirected 90s comeback that made tonnes of money. A bunch of easily overlooked other stuff.
Without question, one of the all-time great guitarists. The quintessential Latin band of the late 60's, early 70's. Essential album: Abraxas. Self-titled album is also excellent. I thought Supernatural was overrated.
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/16/2018 02:10 | #227215
Very creative and expressive guitarist, but his music is even further enhanced by his creative and effective employment of Afro-Caribbean percussion as well.
