Grupo los Santos is a NYC-based quartet of guitar, bass, drums and tap! A funky, rootsy, weirdly eclectic jam-band which pulls equally from the traditions of jazz, rock, funk, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian, and whatever else they come across.

Formed in 1998, Santos currently consist of electric guitar, electric bass, drums, and tap dance/body percussion, often augmented with Afro-Cuban batá drums.

They are currently releasing their fourth album, Santos 4.

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Grupo Los Santos are:

Pete Smith: guitar

David Ambrosio: electric bass

Max Pollak: rumbatap/percussion, other percussion

William "Beaver" Bausch: drum set

Program:

Ant's Dance
(Max Pollak)- quartet

Message in a Bottle
(Sting)- quartet

David's Boxes
(David Ambrosio/William Bausch/Peter Smith)- quartet

Song Form for Santos
(David Ambrosio)- trio: Pete, David, Max

Seven Steps to Heaven
(Victor Feldman)- trio: Pete, David, Mantequilla

website: https://www.santos4tet.com/

Songs Recorded for El Taller Latino Americano by:
Juan M Soria: Wild Coyote Studios in Brooklyn, NY

This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with, the City Council. Additional funding comes from the Jacob and Ruth Epstein Foundation and individual donations. 

Founder’s note:

Grupo Los Santos began performing at El Taller in the late 1990’s. Every Wednesday the sounds of this group pervaded the air of our, then, Broadway location. Los Noches en el Taller was their first album, and as the name suggests, it was an homage to their musical home at the time.

We were glad that they could be a part of this “en el techo” series. For one reason, because it shows how El Taller is always a musical home that people come back to. And for another, because bringing Los Santos to the roof seems a fitting place for this music - a music that needs to expand is even better in the “cielo” with no walls where, supposedly, the saints live.