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Yoshi's celebrates 40th year
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[San Francisco Chronicle] - "Her dancing reminded me of the Summer of Love-type of thing," says Latin-jazz percussionist John Santos, who first played the club in the early 1980s when it was a 40-by-40-foot bar above the restaurant's second location on Claremont Avenue in North
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[San Francisco Examiner] - John Santos: The musician continues his lecture series exploring Puerto Rican music. Musica jibara, a rural musical expression with Spanish-Islamic roots, is today's topic. [7 p.m., Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St., S.F.] Literary events
Living the improvised and well-studied life
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[San Jose Mercury News] - His association with Pete Escovedo and John Santos, as well as a trip to Cuba, stoked Wallace's fire for using Latin-influenced music to convey emotion. "The music seemed to embrace so many cultures and have so many different colors. The more I studied
Vocalist Amikaeyla's New CD, "Being in Love," to Be Released Aug. 28
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[Jazzcorner] - Other contributors include bassist Esperanza Spalding, percussionists Sheila E., her brother Peter Michael Escovedo, John Santos, and Michael Spiro, guitarists Ray Obiedo (who co-produced the CD) and Theresa Perez, and singing percussionist Linda
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