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The Day Carlos Santana Met Miles Davis

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In an excerpt from his autobiography, The Universal Tone, Carlos Santana describes how he met and befriended Miles Davis and the stages and music they shared.

I was still shy onstage then. I didn’t say much into the mike, and I wasn’t doing interviews. But if I wanted to meet someone I was fearless and nobody was bigger in my eyes than Miles Davis.

Bill [Graham] was booking a summer weekend up in Tanglewood—an outdoor festival in...

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