Piedmont Piano Company is pleased to present our 2012 Jazz Camp West Jazz Fest
five-time Grammy nominee
John Santos & his Sextet

An Elegant Evening of Original Compositions

Dr. John Calloway - flute, piano, percussion, Melecio Magdaluyo - saxes
Saul Sierra - bass, Marco Diaz - piano, David Flores - drums,
John Santos - percussion

Friday, July 6 at 8PM
at Piedmont Piano Company's new store located at
18th & San Pablo, Oakland (1728 San Pablo Ave.)

$15 - please call 510-547-8188 to reserve tickets with your credit card

John Santos is an institution in the Bay Area's vibrant Jazz, Latin and World Music scenes. A San Francisco native, he has been performing, teaching and producing here since the early 1970s, expanding to Europe in the 1980s and to Latin America in the 90s. He is currently internationally renowned, having just returned from a European tour and celebrating the recent reinstatement of Latin Jazz to the Grammys after NARAS (the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) shamefully eliminated the category along with 30 others last year. John was actively involved in the efforts to establish the category in the late 80s and early 90s, as well as a central figure in the reinstatement struggle of the last year. The Sextet's 2011 recording, Filosofía Caribeña Vol.1, received a rare Four & a Half Star Review from Downbeat Magazine, although the CD was ineligible for Grammy consideration due to the NARAS faux pas. The members of the Sextet are certainly among the finest players, composers, arrangers and teachers the Bay Area has to offer. They are one of the premiere groups in the field today, having recently appeared at the Monterey, San Francisco, Tumbleweed, San Jose, Sitka, and Healdsburg Jazz Festivals.

www.johnsantos.com

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