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Eddie Palmieri is a modern renaissance man. He composes, arranges, and conducts music which compels you to sit down and truly listen; it's true. But the man also knows how to make you get up and dance. Palmieri is an individual with nearly fifty years of getting everyone's feet on the floor because his salsa, while obviously originating in a studied, educated place, is infectious. You will wiggle, you will sway, you will break a sweat.
Known world-wide as the "Sun of Latin Music," Eddie Palmieri is responsible for the National Association for the Recording Arts and Sciences creating a Latin Grmmy. He himself has been awarded seven Grmmys over the course of a career that has seen dozens of albums released into the world. He is a living legend, my friends, and if you didn't know that already, you do now.
His latest studio album, La Perfecta II (2002), reconnects with Eddie Palmieri's beginnings, when he established himself in the early 1960's as a bandleader out to challenge the status-quo of New York-based Latin Jazz. La Perfecta (1964) was the onset of a lengthy career that strove to incorporate a strong African rhythmic influence into the exciting world of Caribbean salsa.
Eddie Palmieri's body of work is easily studied by scholars. They must love to groove though.
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1961 - 2001
La Perfecta - Alegre
El Molestoso - Alegre
Lo Que Triago Es Sabroso - Alegre
Echando Pa'lante - Tico
Azucar Pa' Ti - Tico
Mambo Con Conga Is Mozambique - Tico
Palmieri & Tjader: El Sonido Nuevo - Verve
Molasses - Tico
Palmieri & Tjader: Bamboleate - Tico
Champagne - Tico
Justicia - Tico
Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri
Masterpiece/Obra Maestra
(RMM Records, 2000)
Two of the greatest bandleaders the Latin Jazz community has ever produced unite for the first time on Masterpiece/Obra Maestra, an album that truly celebrates the beauty, complexity and energy of the style. Neither has been in finer form, and the collaboration reveals how each complements the others' style. The arrangements are punchy at times, smooth at others, and entirely delightful to hear. As one the final recordings before his recent passing, Tito Puente proves he is indeed the King of Latin Music, and Eddie Palmieri-the Sun of Latin Music-pays homage by laying down a fantastic performance.
El Puente Mundial Real, Windows Media
Paris Mambo Real, Windows Media
Eddie Palmieri
El Rumbero del Piano
(RMM Records, 1998)
As much a study of varying Afro-Caribbean rhythms as it is a dance album, El Rumbero del Piano is another exploration by Eddie Palmieri into the boundaries of salsa music. Not content to issue typical Latin Jazz, Palmieri makes a point of finding new rhythms-African in origin-to enrich the established art form: "these exciting, complex rhythmical patterns journeyed from West Africa through the Caribbean, Latin America and beyond-to become what I call 'Afro-World' music." It is a satisfying blend indeed.
Dónde Está Mi Negra Real, Windows Media
Bug Real, Windows Media
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