The Very Best

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile)
  5:05
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Evil Ways
  3:57
  4.1 ★
• 3
  Guajira
  5:44
• 4
  No One to Depend On
  5:34
• 5
  Flor D’Luna (Moonflower)
  4:51
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Brightest Star
  4:52
  1.0 ★
• 7
  Waiting
  4:04
• 8
  Full Moon
  4:30
• 9
  Say It Again
  3:29
• 10
  Yours Is the Light
  5:46
  2.0 ★
• 11
  Samba de Sausalito
  3:10
  1.0 ★
• 12
  La fuente del ritmo
  4:33
• 13
  Para los rumberos
  2:48
• 14
  Song of the Wind
  6:10
• 15
  Everybody’s Everything
  3:29
• 16
  Persuasion
  2:36
• 17
  Winning
  3:31
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Oye como va
  4:19
  3.9 ★
• 2
  I Love You Much Too Much
  4:45
  2.6 ★
• 3
  Let the Children Play
  3:30
• 4
  Soul Sacrifice
  6:38
  3.4 ★
• 5
  Changes
  4:30
  1.0 ★
• 6
  Everything’s Coming Our Way
  3:17
• 7
  Jungle Strut
  5:21
• 8
  E Papa Re
  4:34
  1.0 ★
• 9
  Life Is a Lady
  3:49
• 10
  Illuminations
  4:20
• 11
  Transformation Day
  3:49
• 12
  Revelations
  4:37
• 13
  Guru’s Song
  3:03
• 14
  Havana Moon
  4:12
• 15
  Watch Your Step
  4:02
• 16
  Bailando
  5:44
• 17
  Well All Right
  4:12
• CD 3
• 1
  Jingo (Jin‐go‐lo‐ba)
  4:20
• 2
  Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
  5:21
  3.7 ★
• 3
  Taboo
  5:35
• 4
  Se a cabo
  2:51
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Transcedance
  5:13
• 6
  Gypsy Woman
  4:28
• 7
  I’m the One Who Loves You
  3:18
• 8
  What Does It Take (to Win Your Love)
  3:25
• 9
  You Know That I Love You
  4:25
• 10
  Aqua Marine
  5:36
• 11
  All I Ever Wanted
  4:03
• 12
  Stand Up
  4:05
• 13
  Summer Lady
  4:25
• 14
  Lightnin’
  3:53
• 15
  Tales of Kilimanjaro
  3:28
  1.0 ★
• 16
  Dance Sister Dance (Baila mi hermana)
  8:15
  2.6 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  Samba pa ti
  4:34
  3.8 ★
• 2
  She’s Not There
  4:08
  3.2 ★
• 3
  Hold On
  4:33
• 4
  The Sensitive Kind
  3:31
• 5
  Toussaint L’Overture
  5:56
• 6
  Carnaval
  2:17
• 7
  The Nile
  4:57
• 8
  Mirage
  4:44
• 9
  Flor de Canela
  2:16
• 10
  Mother Africa
  5:56
  1.0 ★
• 11
  Welcome
  6:30
• 12
  Meditation
  2:16
• 13
  Maria Caracoles
  4:33
• 14
  Batuka
  3:37
• 15
  One Chain (Don’t Make No Prison)
  7:14
• 16
  Veracruz
  4:23
• 17
  Before We Go
  3:44

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Release credits

• Alan Pasqua
  background vocals [1.6, 1.17, 2.5, 2.8], keyboard [1.6, 1.17, 3.15, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8]
• Alberto Gianquinto
  arranger [1.2, 2.4]
• Alex Ligertwood
  background vocals [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 1.6, 1.17], lead vocals [1.6, 1.17, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8]
• Alice Coltrane
  conductor [10], harp [10], producer [10], strings [10]
• Allan Harshman
  viola [10]
• Anne Goodman
  cello [10]
• Armando Peraza
  bongos [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 3.15, 1.17], cabasa [10], congas [1.1, 4.10], percussion [4.11, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 3.15, 1.1, 1.11, 1.17]
• Barry Beckett
  producer [14]
• Bill Graham
  producer [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 3.15, 1.6]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [1.2, 2.4]
• Bob Irwin
  producer [1]
• Bob Yance
  flute [10]
• Booker T. Jones
  keyboard [14]
• Brent Dangerfield
  producer [2.4, 1.2]
• Carlos Santana
  arranger [2.11, 4.1], associate [17], background vocals [3.2, 3.4, 1.6, 1.17, 2.1, 2.5, 2.8], bass guitar [10], conductor [10], electric guitar [3.15, 1.6, 1.17, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8], guitar [4.1-2, 4.11, 1.1-2, 1.10-11, 3.2, 3.4, 3.14, 2.1, 2.4, 2.10], mbira [10], percussion [1.17, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 3.15], producer [2.1-2, 2.5, 2.8, 2.10-11, 3.4, 3.15, 4.1-2, 4.10-11, 1.6, 1.10-11], strings [10], vocal [1-2]
• Charles Veal Jr.
  violin [10]
• Chris Minto
  assistant [17], mix [2]
• Chris Solberg
  Hammond organ [11], guitar [11]
• David Brown
  bass [4], bass guitar [4.1, 1.1-2, 2.1, 2.4, 3.2, 3.4]
• David Brown
  engineer [2.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1]
• David Margen
  bass guitar [1.6, 1.17, 4.2, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 3.15]
• David Rubinson
  engineer [1.1, 3.16], producer [1]
• David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
  producer [3.16, 1.1]
• David Schwartz
  viola [10]
• Doug Rauch
  bass [4.11, 1.10-11]
• Eric Prestidge
  engineer [2.4, 1.2]
• Flora Purim
  vocal [10]
• Fran Christina
  drums (drum set) [14]
• Fred Catero
  associate [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 3.15, 1.6], engineer [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 1.1, 1.6, 3.15-16], mix [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 1.6, 3.15], producer [4.1, 2.1, 3.2]
• Frederick Seykora
  cello [10]
• George Engfer
  recording [10]
• Glen Kolotkin
  recording [10]
• Glenn Grab
  cello [10]
• Gordon Marron
  violin [10]
• Graham Lear
  drums (drum set) [4.2, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 3.15, 1.6, 1.17]
• Greg Walker
  vocal [2]
• Gregg Rolie
  arranger [1], keyboard [4.1, 3.2, 3.4, 2.1], lead vocals [3.2, 3.4, 2.1], organ [2.4, 1.2], piano [2], vocal [3.2, 1.2]
• Jacqueline Lustgarten
  cello [10]
• James E. Bond
  bass [10], double bass [10]
• Jeffrey Norman
  assistant [14]
• Jerry Wexler
  producer [14]
• Jim Gaines
  engineer [14], mix [14]
• Jimmie Vaughan
  guitar [14]
• John Fiore
  engineer [4.1, 2.1, 3.2, 3.4]
• José “Chepito” Áreas
  arranger [4], congas [2.1, 2.4, 4.1, 3.2, 3.4, 1.2, 1.10-11], percussion [1.1-2, 1.11, 2.1, 2.4, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.11], timbales [3.2, 3.4, 1.2, 1.11, 2.1, 2.4, 4.1, 4.10]
• Jules Broussard
  saxophone [1], solo [10], soprano saxophone [10]
• Keith Ferguson
  bass [14]
• Keith Olsen
  engineer [17], mix [17], producer [6, 17]
• Kim Wilson
  harmonica [14]
• Leon Ndugu Chancler
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Leon Patillo
  piano [1], vocal [1]
• Leon Thomas
  whistle [10]
• Marilyn Baker
  viola [10]
• Maureen Droney
  assistant [14]
• Mel Martin
  flute [10]
• Michael Carabello
  congas [2.1, 2.4, 1.2, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1], percussion [3.2, 3.4, 1.2, 2.1, 2.4, 4.1]
• Michael Shrieve
  drums (drum set) [1.1-2, 1.10, 4.1, 4.10, 3.2, 3.4, 2.1, 2.4], producer [4.10-11, 1.10-11]
• Murray Adler
  violin [10]
• Myer Bello
  viola [10]
• Myra Kestenbaum
  viola [10]
• Nathan Kaproff
  violin [10]
• Orestes Vilató
  background vocals [1.6, 1.17, 2.5, 2.8], percussion [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 1.17, 3.15], timbales [3.15, 1.17, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8]
• Paul Shure
  violin [10]
• Pete Escovedo
  percussion [2]
• Raul Rekow
  background vocals [1.6, 1.17, 2.5, 2.8], congas [1.17, 3.15, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8], percussion [3.15, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 4.2, 1.17]
• Richard Baker
  keyboard [2], organ [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 1.6], piano [2.2, 2.8, 3.15], synthesizer [1.17, 2.5]
• Richard Kermode
  Hammond organ [11], electric piano [1.10, 4.10-11], percussion [11], piano [10], shekere [10]
• Rico Reyes
  background vocals [2.1, 3.2, 3.4], percussion [3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 2.1]
• Rollice Dale
  viola [10]
• Ronald Folsom
  violin [10]
• Santana
  arranger [3.2, 3.15, 2.1-2, 2.5, 2.8, 1.6, 1.17], associate [3.15, 1.6, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8], producer [4.1, 3.2, 2.4, 1.2]
• Shuichi Takamoto
  engineer [11]
• Steven Saphore
  tabla [2.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1]
• Susan Foot
  assistant [3.16, 1.1]
• Tom Coster
  Hammond organ [10], electric piano [11], keyboard [4.2, 1.1], marimba [10], organ [10], percussion [11], piano [2.10, 4.10-11], producer [1.10-11, 2.10, 4.2, 4.10-11], strings [2]
• Tommy Vicari
  mix [2], recording [2]
• Tony Smith
  drums (drum set) [11], membranophone [11]
• Wayne Lewis
  assistant [1.6, 3.14-15, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8]
• William Henderson
  violin [10]
• 富田哲郎
  engineer [11]
• 鈴木智雄
  engineer [11]
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Issues

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  The Very Best

  4x CD
  2002