Tim Mayer

 

Tim Mayer is known as WAITIKI’s “Mayor of Exotica”. As a saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, Tim’s expertise is known throughout Boston, Spain, Angola, Cape Verde, and pretty much anywhere else that Latin jazz is beloved. As sideman, Tim performs regularly in Boston with Eguie Castrillo, Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, Giovanni Hidalgo, Danilo Perez, Francisco Mela, and Aruan Ortiz. Since 2001, he has been on faculty at Berklee College of Music. Recent tours have brought him to the stages of the Heineken Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival, Key West, and the Cape Verde islands. Tim is featured on both of WAITIKI’s releases, “Charred Mammal Flesh” and “Rendezvous in Okonkuluku”, for which the band has won Hawaii Music Awards.


Learn more about Tim at his website, www.timmayermusic.com.

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  • About The WAITIKI 7

  • The WAITIKI 7 are helping to define a new movement in Exotica.

    Dedicated to the preservation and resurgence of Exotica music, and the related tiki culture, W7 is modeled after the classic groups of Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, and Gene Rains. The WAITIKI 7 is the only modern group that performs exotica completely live and acoustic—just like in the 1950s.

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