UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 2000: Photo of Carlos SANTANA; live (Photo by Paul Bergen/Redferns) Photo: Courtesy of Getty. In “Smooth,” we see the artist in a pared-back outfit: black pants, ...

About Carlos Santana. For more than five decades - from Santana’s earliest days as a groundbreaking Afro-Latin-blues-rock fusion outfit in San Francisco - Carlos Santana has been the visionary ...

Other interviews can feel muted. His sisters, exhibiting hesitant body language, don’t seem like they want to say too much. His bandmate and second wife, Cindy Blackman Santana, is even quieter.

“Carlos” has one of the best openings I’ve ever seen — or heard — in a music documentary. We hear Carlos Santana, waxing philosophical and wise (as he’s prone to do).Intercut with his ...