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.