The Swing of Delight

The Swing of Delight
Studio album by
Devadip Carlos Santana
ReleasedAugust 1980
GenreJazz
Length56:59
LabelColumbia
ProducerDavid Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
Devadip Carlos Santana chronology
Marathon
(1979) 		The Swing of Delight
(1980) 		Zebop!
(1981)

The Swing of Delight is a 1980 double album by Carlos Santana.[1] It was released under his temporary Sanskrit name Devadip Carlos Santana, given to him by Sri Chinmoy.[2] It peaked at #65 on the charts.[3]

On the album, Santana is joined by musicians from the Santana band as well as members of Miles Davis' 1960s quintet: saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams, whom Santana described as "the best musicians on the planet."[4][5] Santana later recalled that he was "scared to death" in the studio, but stated that playing with such top-notch musicians "will make a guitar player turn down—turn it down and go deep, deep inside himself for the inner stuff."[6]

The Swing of Delight was the last album on which Santana used the name Devadip, as he left Chinmoy's circle in 1982 due to his having become disillusioned with the guru.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Carlos Santana - Record Collector Magazine". recordcollectormag.com.
  2. ^ Bielen, Kenneth (January 20, 2016). The Lyrics of Civility: Biblical Images & Popular Music Lyrics in American Culture. Routledge. ISBN 9781317713500 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Devadip Carlos Santana Chart History". Billboard.
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  5. ^ Weinstein, Norman (2009). Carlos Santana: A Biography. Greenwood Press. pp. 61–62.
  6. ^ Santana, Carlos (2014). The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light. Little, Brown and Company.
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  8. ^ Weinstein, Norman (2009). Carlos Santana: A Biography. Greenwood Press. pp. 62–63.