THE JOHN SANTOS SEXTET W/DESTANI WOLF & ADRIAN ARIAS Tickets

"Not in our Name" w/ extraordinary special guests: prolific visual artist Adrian Arías and supreme vocalist Destani Wolf.

Seven-time Grammy nominee, 2012 San Francisco Latino Heritage Arts Award winner, SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director (2013 & 2014), and US Artist Fontanals Fellow, John Santos, is a major bandleader, composer, producer, percussionist, and educator in Afro-Latin music with a professional career spanning five decades.

He has written, recorded and published well over 100 original compositions, mostly on his Machete Records label since 1984 and has performed and/or recorded with masters such as Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Cachao, Eddie Palmieri, Patato Valdés, Francisco Aguabella, Omar Sosa, Susana Baca, Lalo Schifrin, McCoy Tyner, Batacumbele, Giovanni Hidalgo, Armando Peraza, Jose Luis "Changuito" Quintana, Bebo Valdés, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, and Carlos Santana. He served on the Smithsonian’s Latin Jazz Advisory Committee and as a faculty member at the California Jazz Conservatory, the College of San Mateo, and Jazz Camp West.