Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 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 Shorter left halfway through recording the album. Two years later he played at the jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland, with musicians that were mostly from Santana's band:
Montreux Jazz Festival highlights of this era were Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Evans, Soft Machine, Weather Report, The Fourth Way, Nina Simone, Jan Garbarek, and Ella Fitzgerald. Originally a pure jazz festival, it opened up in the 1970s and today presents artists of nearly every imaginable music style. Jazz remains an important part of the festival. Part of the festival's expansion was due to coproduction by Quincy Jones who brought many international artists in the early 1990s. Today's festival lasts about two weeks and attracts an audience of more than 200,000 people. In the 1970s, the festival began broadening its