Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieriis a Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is the founder of the bands "La Perfecta," "La Perfecta II" and "Harlem River Drive."...
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth15 December 1936
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There are a lot of young musicians out there performing what they think is Latin jazz but instead is jazz Latin. And there's a difference. Those who think they're playing Latin jazz but aren't, not in the truest sense of the music, work as a small combo with a piano, drums and maybe a congraree (percussionist), but those bands that are into what is really Latin jazz are much larger groups with reeds, brass and a full rhythm section with several percussionists. There will always be Latin jazz. My mission is to keep it alive.