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that Santana's music has gone in a very corporate direction of late. He has not stayed the jam-Jazz oreinted latin-rock that he became popular with. His stuff has heavy rotation on soft-rock/pop stations!

I sometimes don't understand musicians reaction to the public when they (finally) come to the realization that Jazz is no longer the music of choice for bars, pubs, dances etc. As the music became more and more obscure as it naturally matured the audience shrunk to a more confined and sophisticated group of people. It has largely become "musicians music", IMHO.

Elvin, I'm sure, was given his due props amongst the hard-core Jazz lovers all over the world.

R.I.P. Elvin.