John Calloway and the Latin Collective at Stanford Jazz Festival

A longtime favorite at the Stanford Jazz Festival as well as Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency, multi-instrumentalist John Calloway is a cornerstone of the Bay Area Latin jazz scene. Adept at flute, piano, and percussion, Calloway was a founding member of John Santos’s Machete Ensemble and has collaborated with a who’s-who of local Latin jazz innovators, including Pete Escovedo, Rebeca Mauleon, and Wayne Wallace. He’s also performed with legends such as Dizzy Gillespie and Israel “Cachao” Lopez. As a performer and composer, he has earned three Grammy nominations for recordings with the Machete Ensemble and the Ritmo y Candela series with Cuban percussionists Changuito, Patato, and Orestes Vilato. His most recent album, The Code, is available on Bombo Music. He recently completed advanced studies in arts education in urban environments and was awarded a Doctorate in Education from the University of San Francisco. He currently serves as an Arts Commissioner for the City of San Francisco, and is on the advisory boards of the San Jose Jazz Society and the Arts Education Master Plan for the San Francisco School District....

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A longtime favorite at the Stanford Jazz Festival as well as Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency, multi-instrumentalist John Calloway is a cornerstone of the Bay Area Latin jazz scene. Adept at flute, piano, and percussion, Calloway was a founding member of John Santos’s Machete Ensemble and has collaborated with a who’s-who of local Latin jazz innovators, including Pete Escovedo, Rebeca Mauleon, and Wayne Wallace. He’s also performed with legends such as Dizzy Gillespie and Israel “Cachao” Lopez. As a performer and composer, he has earned three Grammy nominations for recordings with the Machete Ensemble and the Ritmo y Candela series with Cuban percussionists Changuito, Patato, and Orestes Vilato. His most recent album, The Code, is available on Bombo Music. He recently completed advanced studies in arts education in urban environments and was awarded a Doctorate in Education from the University of San Francisco. He currently serves as an Arts Commissioner for the City of San Francisco, and is on the advisory boards of the San Jose Jazz Society and the Arts Education Master Plan for the San Francisco School District.

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