{"id":1136,"date":"2012-12-16T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T21:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2012-12-16T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T21:25:18","slug":"latin-jazz-master-eddie-palmieri-both-innovator-and-conservator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/12\/latin-jazz-master-eddie-palmieri-both-innovator-and-conservator.html","title":{"rendered":"“Latin” Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri, both innovator and conservator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Palmieri<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0is a new NEA Jazz Master — to be inducted Jan. 14 in a ceremony at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center, to be webcast live<\/a>. He is,\u00c2\u00a0contradictorily, the spark-plug\/conservator of the Americas’ indefatigable Afro-Caribbean music. He turned 76 yesterday (Dec. 15), celebrating with a a “career retrospective” featuring his jazz band and dance ensemble at JALC’s Hall. Here’s Palmieri’s portrait with his timbalero Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Claussell, taken last night by\u00c2\u00a0S\u00c3\u00a1nta Istv\u00c3\u00a1n Csaba, a Budapest-based photographer\u00c2\u00a0currently visiting New York City.<\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/a>

Eddie Palmieri and Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Claussell at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dec. 15 2012, photo by S\u00c3\u00a1nta Istv\u00c3\u00a1n Csaba<\/p><\/div>\n

Palmieri has been a leader in America’s “Latin” music since the early ’60s — a composing and arranging pianist, a dramatic improviser, a hard-touring and often recording artist, a progressive political voice — but one who consciously harkens back at least a decade earlier, to the musical era from which he sprung. For his concert’s first Rose Hall set on Friday, 12\/13 \u00c2\u00a0Palmieri opened with an impromptu and intimately moody (if hastily resolved) piano solo, then brought his congos-bongos-timbales-bass clav\u00c3\u00a9 section and alto sax, trumpet, trombone horn line (plus upright bass) together for the title track of his slinky, intricate 2005 album Palmas<\/a><\/em>. He introduced a composition dedicated to Thelonious Monk incorporating unusual-for-Latin off-kilter hesitations; he played startling dissonant chords and unexpected chromatic modulations under section writing that required full engagement and vigor from trumpeter Brian Lynch, trombonist Conrad Herwig, saxist Louis Fouch\u00c3\u00a9; he drew energy from his drummers. This was some jazz hot.<\/p>\n

For his second set, Palmieri added vocalist Herman Olivera,\u00c2\u00a0tr\u00c3\u00a9s virtuoso Nelson Gonzalez (and his son as a backup singer\/rhythmist), \u00c2\u00a0exciting\u00c2\u00a0‘boneman Jimmy Bosch — to delve into the 1950s’ rhumba-mambo-cha-cha stylings of Tito Rodriguez, Machito and Tito Puente. This orchestral popular dance music may have become formalized in the past 50+ years, but remains as multi-layered and compelling as ever, if played well. Palmieri and Co. played it well, though this repertoire left a bulk of Palmieri’s career unasserted. His charanga innovations and collaborations with Cal Tjader<\/a>, boogaloo funk<\/a>, dynamic electric (pre-Santana) jams<\/a>, grandiose self-referential works<\/a>, and ethnomusicological interpretations<\/a> were missing. Yes, he’s a Jazz Master — but what’s he thinking up now?<\/p>\n

I’ve written about Palmieri several times on this blog, including this an enthusiastic review<\/a> of his 2009 JALC debut with his \u00c2\u00a0neo-charanga ensemble La Perfecta II.<\/p>\n

Here’s my posting when Palmieri’s Jazz Masters Award was announced<\/a> — plus notes on the rest of the distinguished class —<\/p>\n

And here’s the post from last year with my nomination<\/a> of him for the NEA Jazz Master honor. Which begs the question — Who next?<\/p>\n

See my nomination tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Eddie Palmieri\u00c2\u00a0is a new NEA Jazz Master — to be inducted Jan. 14 in a ceremony at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center, to be webcast live. He is,\u00c2\u00a0contradictorily, the spark-plug\/conservator of the Americas’ indefatigable Afro-Caribbean music. 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