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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. The forum team is off this week, and in place of live shows, we're going to revel in the bounty of Bay Area Music. All week on the 9 o'clock hour, we'll be listening back to our interviews with great local musicians performing live in our studio. Today, a legend of Bay Area music, John Santos, a Grammy-nominated percussionist

and composer known for his Latin jazz performances. He gave us a lesson in the rhythms of his

heritage. We listened back to that, our interview, and his live performance with his band. That's

coming up next right after this news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. We've got another great music show for you. Lined up this morning. We've got a packed house here in our performance studio, the Bay Area Latin jazz legend. John Santos is here. He's a percussionist,

composer. Got a full band he's going to introduce after the first song. Welcome to Form,

John. Why don't you take us away?

Yeah. I'm I'm I'm The

I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm I'm

I'm

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