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"He was in his 80s, but he had more energy than I that day," the filmmaker says of the legendary musician, who died Aug. 6 at 88.
Producer Bobby Colomby, who worked on late pianist Eddie Palmieri’s 1978 classic “Lucumí, Macumba, Voodoo,” reflects on the ...
Salsa icon Eddie Palmieri, who died Aug. 6 at the age of 88, was one of the artists who best summed up the restless beauty of ...
He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, ...
The bandleader and pianist was one of the leading Latin musicians of his generation. He won multiple Grammys and was ...
The renowned pianist and composer won eight Grammy Awards and helped shape the sound of Latin jazz, salsa and rumba.
Eddie Palmieri, the pioneering rumba and Latin jazz musician, has died at 88. His daughter Gabriela said he died Wednesday in ...
Palmieri, who was viewed as a pioneer of New York City's Latin jazz scene, passed away after "an extended illness." ...
Eddie Palmieri, the legendary Latin jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader, died on August 6, 2025, at his home in New Jersey ...
Eddie Palmieri, who is the younger brother of music director and pianist Charlie Palmieri, has passed away.
Eddie Palmieri, the percussive jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, and arranger, died on Aug. 6 at his home in Hackensack, N.J. He was 88.
Eddie Palmieri, the renowned pianist and Latin music pioneer who founded groups like La Perfecta and Harlem River Drive, has ...