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Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 José Areas, Armando Peraza, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, and keyboardist Chester Thompson. Bass guitarist Alphonso Johnson was from Weather Report. There was also a DVD of the concert. Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 Live at Montreux Jazz Festival is a live album by rock guitarist Carlos Santana and jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter that was released on March 27, 2007. The album is a record of their performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 14, 1988. Santana and Shorter played together on "This Is This!" (1986), the final album by Weather Report, though