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Jon Batiste gave a moving tribute to late Latin music icon Eddie Palmieri — who died two weeks ago at the age of 88 of an ...
The Latin jazz and salsa icon, who died on August 6 at the age of 88 after an extended illness, appears in the film’s Puerto ...
On Alt.Latino we often discuss the way that traditions are recognized and expanded upon. Usually it’s when we’re talking ...
The bandleader and pianist was one of the leading Latin musicians of his generation. He won multiple Grammys and was ...
Salsa icon Eddie Palmieri, who died Aug. 6 at the age of 88, was one of the artists who best summed up the restless beauty of ...
Eddie Palmieri, the pioneering rumba and Latin jazz musician, has died at 88. His daughter Gabriela said he died Wednesday in ...
Palmieri, who was viewed as a pioneer of New York City's Latin jazz scene, passed away after "an extended illness." ...
Grammy-winning Latin music trailblazer Eddie Palmieri died on Wednesday, Aug. 6 after "an extended illness," his daughter ...
Producer Bobby Colomby, who worked on late pianist Eddie Palmieri’s 1978 classic “Lucumí, Macumba, Voodoo,” reflects on the ...
Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician, and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry, has passed ...
Eddie Palmieri, the legendary Latin jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader, died on August 6, 2025, at his home in New Jersey, following a prolonged illness. He was 88.
"He was in his 80s, but he had more energy than I that day," the filmmaker says of the legendary musician, who died Aug. 6 at ...