John Santos at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Healdsburg Plaza Bandstand

FREE: A long-time friend of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, John Santos is a part-Puerto Rican, part-Cape Verdean, San Franciscan who has developed into one of the world's experts on Latin Jazz. Now 61, he is a master percussionist who has played with all the greats of this music – Tito Puente, Cachao, Bebo Valdes, Pete Escovedo, Eddie Palmieri, and with straight-ahead as well: Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Max Roach, George Cables, and dozens more. John returns to the festival this year with a sextet performing "A Puerto Rico con Amor" on the Healdsburg Plaza, a tribute to a vital U.S...

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FREE: A long-time friend of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, John Santos is a part-Puerto Rican, part-Cape Verdean, San Franciscan who has developed into one of the world's experts on Latin Jazz. Now 61, he is a master percussionist who has played with all the greats of this music – Tito Puente, Cachao, Bebo Valdes, Pete Escovedo, Eddie Palmieri, and with straight-ahead as well: Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Max Roach, George Cables, and dozens more. John returns to the festival this year with a sextet performing "A Puerto Rico con Amor" on the Healdsburg Plaza, a tribute to a vital U.S. territory that has been woefully neglected since being devastated by Hurricane Maria in September.

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