Rolling Stone (4/27/72, p.49) - "This isn't bad. A hippie latino rock band...an octet with hot sauce..."
Q (9/00, pp.126-7) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...With the onus firmly on the groove rather than on melodic song structures....[It] sounds close to the latest chart-topping incantation of Santana..."
Jorge Santana is Carlos Santana's brother.
Malo: Arcelio Garcia, Jr., Jorge Santana (vocals); Abel Zarate (vocals, guitar); Roy Murray (trumpet, flugelhorn, flute, soprano saxophone); Luis Gasca (trumpet, flugelhorn); Richard Kermode (acoustic & electric piano, organ); Pablo Tellez (bass); Richard Spremich (drums).
Additional personnel: Richard Bean (vocals, timbales); Coke Escovedo (timbales); Victor Pantoja (congas, bongos).