Carlos Santana a gracious host on 'Blessings and Miracles'
It seems that with many duet albums that bring disparate popular music talents together, there’s a sort of sliding scale of how much influence the “host” is willing to give up.
Sometimes the host artist lets guests take command. In other instances, the guests function as little more than supporting players to the sound and vision.
Blessings and Miracles, the new Carlos Santana album, is, in most instances, neither.
Instead, it’s the best kind of duet album, allowing Santana, 74, to sound like himself while at the same time allowing guest artists to do what they do best. Having two established artists be able to successfully express their voices on the same song in this way is less common than you may think.
But that’s exactly what happens on “Angel Choir/All Together,” a pairing of Santana and the late jazz keyboardist Chick Corea that doesn’t sound like a Corea track, nor a Santana track.
It sounds like both, and that’s a good thing.
At: https://riffmagazine.com/album-reviews/carlos-santana-blessings-and-miracles/