Jazz Articles about Eddie Palmieri

Eddie Palmieri: Listen Here!

by Robert R. Calder
July 9, 2005

Is Latin jazz some musicians' excuse for having fun? Eddie Palmieri's really a jazz-influenced Latin pianist, but he has lots of fun running and recording bands of top-line jazzmen. He's no conventionally accomplished contemporary jazz pianist, but all the better because he's unconventional, distinguished mostly by his very competent musical extrovert verve.This outgoing date has only occasional quiet moments, like John Scofield's near-mandolin acoustic guitar in “La Gitana," amid examples of the boss-man's bass- supported and very musical ...

Listen Here: Latin Legend Palmieri Opens Tour

by Franz A. Matzner
June 27, 2005

Celebrating his 50th anniversary in the music business and a newly released album entitled Listen Here!, Latin jazz piano legend Eddie Palmieri opened a week-long stint at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night. Playing together for the first time, Palmieri and supporting cast Donald Harrison (alto sax), Brian Lynch (trumpet), Jose Claussell (timbales), Jose Santiago (bass) and Johnny Rivero (congas), treated the audience to a lively evening of vibrant tunes, long solos, spirited exchanges and good ...

Eddie Palmieri: Listen Here!

by Terrell Kent Holmes
June 15, 2005

Piano maestro Eddie Palmieri is celebrating the golden anniversary of his career in music, and Listen Here! applies his singular style to straight-ahead jazz. The all-star lineup he has assembled weaves his wonderful arrangements of originals and standards seamlessly into the Latin idiom. Regina Carter's violin dances along the salsa rhythm of “In Flight, with trumpeter Brian Lynch and alto saxophonist Donald Harrison deftly trading fours, eighths, and sixteenths. Swinging tenor work by Michael Brecker and Christian ...

Eddie Palmieri: Latin Jazz Standard-Bearer

by R.J. DeLuke
October 8, 2003

Eddie Palmieri has enjoyed a long career presenting Latin music to the United States and to the world. It's his calling, for sure, but it may be more than that. You see, Palmieri feels that the music he brings--dance music with the excitement that comes from real Cuban-based rhythms first, and jazz or other flavors second--may be dying out. The baton for keeping that kind of music alive was passed on in the new millennium after the recording ...

Eddie Palmieri: Ritmo Caliente

by Ollie Bivens
July 25, 2003

Latin jazz musician Eddie Palmieri has been quoted as saying, “I'm a frustrated percussionist, so I take it out on the piano." On his latest release, he does just that. Palmieri is not a Latin jazz purist. On past records, he has fused Latin and non-Latin music forms. The only track on which this is done here is “Gigue (Bach Goes Bata),” where he combines European classical and Latin jazz music.

And he pulls it off beautifully. It starts out ...