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Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s ...
He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.” Eddie Palmieri in performance in the early 1960s. From ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A Connecticut man is a Grammy-award winner in the Latin African world of music. Nyberg: Manuel Valera on his road to fame in the jazz Latin music world Zaccai Curtis, is a ...
Ben Barnett, a UMass jazz trombone faculty member who has received his second Grammy Award nomination, for Best Latin Jazz Album as a member of The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at the Bromery Center For ...
Cal Tjader’s 1976 Latin jazz-rock fusion album Amazonas reissued on 180g vinyl offers lush vibes, killer solos, and essential listening. When I first started collecting Cal Tjader records, ...