Event

Bay Area All Star Latin Jazz

Far more than a master percussionist, internationally renowned multi-Grammy-nominated percussionist and San Francisco native, John Santos, is a prolific Afro-Latin bandleader, composer, teacher, writer, producer, and cultural activist with a career of over 45 years in the Bay Area.

He has worked with acknowledged masters including Cachao, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Bebo Valdés, Max Roach, Eddie Palmieri, and Omar Sosa. He is an Advisory Board member of Oaktown Jazz, Living Jazz, and the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance (NY), and a Trustee of SFJAZZ.

His next CD, Art of the Descarga, is scheduled for a late 2019 release on the Smithsonian/Folkways label. November 12th, 2006 was proclaimed John Santos Day in San Francisco by Mayoral proclamation.

This Latin/Jazz/Brazilian All Star Quartet, features Five-Time Grammy Nominee, Latin Percussionist John Santos; pianist, Larry Vuckovich; bassist, Jeff Chambers, PLUS: The dynamic fresh voice of Charity Goodin-Sanen. Charity has a wide-ranging repertoire of great standards, jazz/bebop classics, beautiful boleros, bluesy funky material & more.

The rustic Tucker Farm Center in Calistoga is a comfortable venue, providing excellent acoustics for listening. This concert is a beginning of what will also be a start of a series of events featuring some of the best instrumentalists and vocalists from the Bay Area.