John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana
"Invitation to Illumination"
July 1, 2011

45th Montreux Jazz Festival
Auditorium Stravinsky,
Montreux, Switzerland

I am sharing this recording by kind permission of the taper, Mr. SwanSpirit. Thank you very much, my friend.

This show is a monument in itself, two of the greatest guitar players of the world reunited again, almost 40 years after their earlier collaboration.

I know there are at least three recordings of this show around, I will be getting another version at some point in the next weeks.

Total Time: 137 minutes, complete show. I will post a few samples.

Disk 1:

01. The Life Divine (2)
02. Peace On Earth/Dear Lord
03. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
04. Stairway To Heaven
05. Our Lord’s Prayer/Sun Ra Freak Out
06. Right Off
07. Vuelta Abajo (2)
08. Vashkar (2)
09. The Creator Has A Master Plan (1)
10. Naima (Acoustic)
11. Lotus Land (Acoustic) -
12. Downstairs Blues Upstairs

Disk 2:

01. Venus/Upper Egypt
02. Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
03. Black Satin
04. A Love Supreme
05. Jam Session (3) (aka Montreux Boogie)

Musicians:
Carlos Santana
John McLaughlin
Cindy Blackman-Santana
Dennis Chambers
Tony Lindsay (1)
David K. Mathews
Etienne Mbappé
Raul Rekow
Benny Rietveld (2)
Claude Nobs (3)

Note from Santanamigos: Almost 40 years after the solo album “Love Devotion Surrender”, Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin perform a special concert for the opening of the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Enjoy the goosebumps, share the gigs, support the artists.

Alien