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As Eddie Palmieri’s tour continued Alma Del Barrio radio host Guido Herrera and I caught up with Eddie at A Mi Hacienda, in Pico Rivera, California in a rare performance with his Latin Jazz Sextet. While the crowd was expecting the Salsa orchestra the Latin Jazz band that consisted of Luque Curtis, Jonathan Powell, Johnny Rivero, Louis Fouche, Camilo Molina and Papo Rodriguez (guest bongocero) showed up and blew the roof off the venue with instrumentals of many popular Palmieri Salsa hits like “Adoracion” and “Pa’ Huele”. Fouche and Powell became the vocal pieces of all the performances. As event organizer, Ray Carrion, mentioned during his earlier set with his all-star band, this would be a night to witness one of our living legends in a format many had not seen here in LA since those present were mostly Salsa fans. What the fans experienced was Salsa dance music minus the vocalist. The night was true magic for the dancers, the folks gathered in front of the stage, Canto Tropical’s Hector Resendez and my radio guest DJ Ricky Campanelli who was visiting from Montreal.
Eddie Palmieri is, with a doubt, ‘Artist of the Year’ with his Latin Jazz recording “Sabiduria/Wisdom” at the end of last year, “Full Circle” with Herman Olivera earlier this year and now “Mi Luz Mayor” to end the year as we go into 2019.
Eddie has been an innovator since the 60’s when he had La Perfecta and was doing things contrary to what the industry dictated. The perfect example being the 1965 recording of 9 minute and 35 seconds, “Azucar”, in a time when commercial radio only aired 3 minute songs.
I see a Grammy win for Eddie Palmieri in 2019.
On a chilly Saturday night, on the 10th of November, as you walked into the Lehman College Performing Arts Center in the Bronx, New York (known to many as the ‘Mecca of the Bronx’) the aroma in the air was all about ‘el maestro’ Eddie Palmieri and the nostalgic night that was about to unfold.
The night was split into two parts with the first being a tribute to his brother, the late great, Charlie Palmieri who would have been 91 years this month as the night turned into an emotional evening for both Eddie and the fans there in attendance.
The Uprising All Stars, directed by trombonist Jimmy Bosch, consisted of Herman Olivera as lead vocalist on some of Charlie’s best “Pare Cochero”, Chocolate”, “La Hija De Lola”, “La Llave”, and the Alegre All Star theme that featured some of New York’s finest musicians: Nelson Gonzalez proving once again why he is one the world’s best tresistas, timbalero Carlos Molina, conguero Little Johnny Rivero (working on a new recording for Uprising Music), trumpeter Jonathan Powell, bongocero Anthony Carrillo, trombonist Doug Beavers (also working on a new CD), trumpeters John Walsh & Brian Lynch, saxophonist Yosvany Terry, Ivan Renta, Louis Fouche, Jeremy Powell & Gary Sumlyan and Quique Gonzalez (son of Nelson Gonzalez) on coro.
Bassist Luques Curtis drove the rhythm and Zaccai Curtis did a superb job as one of the soloists on the first three tracks of this first set.
The second set was the highlight of the evening, a tribute to the first Salsa Grammy award winning recordings by Eddie and Lalo Rodriguez, “The Sun of Latin Music” and “Unfinished Masterpiece” in 1974 and 1975. The fans were delighted with the performance by Lalo Rodriguez and Eddie Palmieri in what shocked many fans only the second time they performed together on stage in the past 40 years since the release of the classic recordings. Jose Madera, of Tito Puente fame, was the musical director for this second set that included the famous hits “Un Dia Bonito”, “Nada De Ti”, “Nunca Contigo”, “Oye Lo Que Te Conviene” and the bolero “Deseo Salvaje” Lalo wrote, at age 14, for a young lady in grade school.
The concert celebrated one of the most successful partnerships on record (vinyl) in the history of classic Salsa. As fans we were also treated to the presence to probably the best arranger of all time who played with the Palladium Three: Machito, Tito Puente & Tito Rodriguez…Ray Santos who is 90 years old and still arranging for Eddie’s latest CD “Mi Luz Mayor”.
Listening to Lalo’s voice was vintage and Eddie’s piano took us all back in time to when the recordings debuted on our turntables and New York radio.
Thanks to Edward Palmieri and Lehman Colleges Media Consultant, Leah Gramatica, & the staff at the Lehman College Performing Arts Center for all their attentions and relentless work to make sure the event was the success it was.
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Jeanette Pereyra es una cantante actriz y modelo Argentina ,Inicio su carrera como bailarina cantante y actriz de teatro a temprana edad, su amor por la música la llevó a la realización de su primer álbum titulado ETÉREA Producido por EMG en Buenos Aires Argentina. Con la colaboración de reconocidos compositores e ingenieros de sonido como ser: Gerardo Morel, Nicolás Supertino, Germán Cotonatt y Richard Bandfield lograron dar vida al álbum titulado” ETÉREA ”
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