Tickets

• General Ticket: $30

• Member Ticket: $25

• Student/Youth (Ages 8 - 18): $15

Bassist and composer Santi Debriano leads his electrifying ensemble Bembé Arktet, blending Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz improvisation, and spiritual textures. Known for his work with Archie Shepp, Randy Weston, and Freddie Hubbard, Debriano creates a vibrant, groove-filled journey through global jazz traditions. This performance promises deep musical interplay, propulsive rhythm, and bold originality.

The Arktet lineup, featuring some of today’s most adventurous improvisers, creates a sound world that is celebratory yet thoughtful, blending deep polyrhythms with modal exploration, folkloric melodies, and modern jazz vocabulary. Debriano’s compositions often draw from personal history, cultural memory, and his global travels, making every performance an act of storytelling as well as sonic innovation.

ABOUT SANTI DEBRIANO

Panamanian-born and Brooklyn-raised, Santi Debriano has long been a powerful voice in the evolution of Latin jazz and contemporary improvisation. With deep roots in Afro-Caribbean music and decades of experience performing with some of the most influential figures in jazz—including Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Randy Weston, and Hank Jones—Debriano’s approach is both intellectually rigorous and rhythmically driven.

His ensemble, Bembé Arktet, is a boundary-crossing group that fuses traditional Afro-Caribbean and West African rhythmic concepts with contemporary jazz harmony and improvisational exploration. The word “Bembé” refers to an Afro-Cuban sacred gathering rich with drumming, dancing, and spiritual energy—a tradition that underscores the ensemble’s mission: to bring people together through rhythm and cultural resonance.

ABOUT HAMPTONS JAZZ FEST

Hamptons Jazz Fest, produced by The Jam Session, Inc., is a series of performances that bring world-class musicians in the fields of jazz, Latin, and world music to a diverse cross-section of populations on the east end of Long Island, held in iconic venues throughout July, August, and September. HJF also stages a Winter Series during the remainder of the year. They present dozens of concerts at no or low cost and collaborate with other non-profit cultural organizations like OLA of Eastern Long Island, the Parrish Art Museum, The Church in Sag Harbor, East Hampton LTV, the Bridgehampton Childcare and Recreation Center, the Shinnecock Nation, and others to engage the diverse groups from the East End in our performance and educational events.

ABOUT THE JAM SESSIONS INC.

The Jam Session, Inc. is a not-for-profit production and education arts organization that produces live jazz music, including Latin and world music, through performances, recording, broadcast, and educational opportunities for the people of the East End of Long Island, primarily Eastern Suffolk County. The Jam Session brings the music to the community it serves in various ways, including at partnering venues that are accessible and well served to the public. The Jam Session’s ultimate purpose is to bring these diverse groups together through music and have shared