{"id":5311,"date":"2013-12-18T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2013-12-18T23:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T07:00:41","slug":"its-eddie-palmieris-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/12\/its-eddie-palmieris-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Eddie Palmieri’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"eddie<\/a>This is the 77th birthday of Eddie Palmieri. The pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader moved with his family to New York from Puerto when he and his older brother Charlie were children. By the time Eddie was eight, he and Charlie were performing in talent contests. Both became major figures in the Latin jazz movement. As a teenager, Eddie Palmieri worked with experienced Latin bands, including that of Tito Rodriguez. At fourteen, he had his own band. In the early 1960s, his Conjunto La Perfecta became one of Latin music\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most influential ensembles. Palmieri\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s La Perfecta II continues as a primal force in the music that is sometimes called Nuyorican. <\/p>\n

Palmieri recorded two classic collaborations with his equally influential Latin jazz peer Cal Tjader. Here, thanks to a YouTube<\/em> contributor named Ted Nelson, is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pecadillo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from Tjader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Palmieri\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1966 album El Sonido Nuevo<\/em><\/a>. Palmieri, piano; Tjader, vibes; Barry Rogers, trombone solo. <\/p>\n