Eddie Palmieri

Eddie Palmieri
Born: Dec 15, 1936 in New York, NY
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Genre: Latin, Charanga
Styles: Salsa, New York Salsa, Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cuban Jazz, Afro-Cuban, Fusion, Latin Soul, Boogaloo
Biography: Eddie Palmieri is one of the foremost Latin jazz pianists of the last half of the 20th century, blessed with a technique that fuses such ubiquitous jazz influences as the styles of Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, and McCoy Tyner into a Latin context. No purist, he has also shown a welcome willingness ...Read full biography
The Sun of Latin Music
Released: 1973
Label: Sony BMG
Critics' Rating:
A master of the traditional and the progressive, the styles of the past and the bright, swinging future, Eddie Palmieri is one of the most influential Latino pianists of the 20th century. His extreme versatility ...Read full review
La Perfecta
Released: 1962
Label: Fania / Umgd
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One of the best albums released by one of Palmieri's best bands, La Perfecta features 12 crisp, uptempo songs ranging from guajiras to pachangas to sones montuno -- with a cha-cha-cha thrown in for good ...Read full review
More Eddie Palmieri albums: Main Albums (46), Compilations (22), DVD/Video (1)
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