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Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy-winning Nuyorican pianist, bandleader and composer who helped innovate Afro-Caribbean music in the States and transform the New York salsa scene, died on Wednesday. He was ...
Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s ...
Ben Barnett, a UMass jazz trombone faculty member who has received his second Grammy Award nomination, for Best Latin Jazz Album as a member of The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at the Bromery Center For ...
He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.” Eddie Palmieri in performance in the early 1960s. From ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A Connecticut man is a Grammy-award winner in the Latin African world of music. Nyberg: Manuel Valera on his road to fame in the jazz Latin music world Zaccai Curtis, is a ...
Cal Tjader’s 1976 Latin jazz-rock fusion album Amazonas reissued on 180g vinyl offers lush vibes, killer solos, and essential listening. When I first started collecting Cal Tjader records, ...
Throughout Northampton, Mass., this weekend, a festival that fills the Paradise City with music will be in full swing. Grammy Award-winning Latin Jazz, a storied group of vocalists on a sendoff tour, ...
Presenting his fifth album as leader, Puerto Rican jazz guitarist Richard Peña unveils The Latin Side of Jazz Guitar, continuing his personal exploration of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, leading a quintet ...