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Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra

Latino music legend and nine-time Grammy winner Eddie Palmieri performing "Oyelo Que Te Co...

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Eddie Palmieri - La Malanga - live in Berlin - 2012, July 27th

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Eddie Palmieri "Puerto Rico"

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Eddie Palmieri - De Palo Pa' Rumba

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Eddie Palmieri - Muñeca

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Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri: The Palmieri Effect

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published: 16 Jun 2006

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Vamanos Pa'l Monte - Eddie Palmieri

I bring you.... Eddie Palmieri! With his best album, "Vamanos Pa'l Monte!" In this song, W...

published: 14 Nov 2008

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Eddie Palmieri - Bilongo

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Eddie Palmieri DVD Trailer

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PICADILLO - EDDIE PALMIERI

PIANO - Eddie Palmieri CONGA - George Delgado FLAUTA - Karen Joseph TROMBÓN - Doug Beavers...

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Eddie Palmieri Live @ Sing Sing - Pa La Ocha Tambo - Music Video

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published: 31 Jul 2011

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EDDIE PALMIERI - AZUCAR PA TI - (SUGAR FOR YOU) - MUSIC VIDEO

AZUCAR PA TI {sugar for you) is the crowning masterpiece of La Perfecta..At 9:35 is one of...

published: 17 Jul 2010

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EDDIE PALMIERI Y PAPO LUCCA

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published: 28 Jun 2012

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NADA DE TI...EDDIE PALMIERI

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Eddie Palmieri & Tito Puente: Newport Jazz Festival Interview with Bill Boggs

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Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri "Picadillo" (1966)

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NEA Jazz Masters: Tribute to Eddie Palmieri

Known as one of the finest Latin jazz pianists of the past 50 years, Eddie Palmieri is als...

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EDDIE PALMIERI - VAMONOS PA'L MONTE - Music Video

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published: 02 Aug 2010

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Eddie Palmieri - La Malanga - live in Berlin - 2012, July 27th

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Eddie Palmieri Live in CT. - Palo Pa' Rumba

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Eddie Palmieri Live at Yoshi's San Francisco 5/19/10

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Eddie Palmieri Live @ Sing Sing - Pa La Ocha Tambo - Music Video

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published: 31 Jul 2011

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Eddie Palmieri Live @ the University of PR - Pa Huele

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published: 02 Oct 2010

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Eddie Palmieri @ the University of P.R. - La Libertad Logica /Camagueyanos y Habaneros

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published: 20 Aug 2011

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Eddie Palmieri Live @ the University of PR - Muñeca

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published: 29 Dec 2012

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Eddie Palmieri Live @ the University of PR - Bilongo

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published: 04 Jan 2013

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Eddie Palmieri - Solo Piano Live 1970s

Collectors' material. Salsa video with piano solo by The Maestro Eddie Palmieri (white sui...

published: 03 Apr 2007

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Eddie Palmieri - Oye Lo Que Te Conviene - live in Berlin - 2012, July 27th

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published: 28 Jul 2012

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Eddie Palmieri Live @ Sing Sing - VP Blues - Music Video

Album Review --- The act that just couldn't be caged, Eddie Palmieri and Harlem River Driv...

published: 18 Aug 2011

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Eddie Palmieri - Congo Yambumba (Live)

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published: 31 Jan 2013

Eddie Palmieri Live 2011 trk.1

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published: 18 Jul 2011

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comparsa cubana eddie palmieri live in ny

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published: 09 Feb 2011

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Puerto Rico-Eddie Palmieri-Live

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published: 03 Jan 2011

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Eddie Palmieri Live @ the University of PR - Chocolate Ice Cream

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published: 03 Oct 2010

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Eddie Palmieri Live In Germany - Lindo Yambu

Eddie Palmieri, Giovanni Hidalgo, Anthony Carillo, José Medina, Charlie Cotto, Tony Vega, ...

published: 27 May 2012

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Eddie Palmieri's 75th Birthday Celebration at the Copacabana

Come Celebrate with us on December 13th at the Worlds Famous Copacabana! Eddie Palmieri Li...

published: 08 Dec 2011

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Fania All Stars en vivo desde su 30 Aniv. -Vamonos pal Monte

Fania All Stars en vivo desde su 30 Aniv. -Vamonos pal Monte Ft. Eddie Palmieri, Larry Har...

published: 08 Oct 2011

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Una's Lecture: A Conversation with Eddie Palmieri and John Santos

Una's Lecturer and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri in conversat...

published: 19 Mar 2013

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Eddie Palmieri en Vivo en la Feria del Hogar (5 de agosto de 1990) Album completo

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published: 19 Dec 2012

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Eddie Palmieri (disco blanco).wmv

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published: 06 Dec 2011

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Night Music #103 1988 Eddie Palmieri, Nick Gonzales, Phoebe Snow, Yomo Toro, Paul Simon

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published: 25 Mar 2013

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Eddie Palmieri in Hawaii Oct2012 Part 1 of 4

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published: 17 Dec 2012

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Eddie Palmieri in Hawaii Oct2012 Part 2 of 4

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published: 18 Dec 2012

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Eddie Palmieri in Hawaii Oct2012 Part 3 of 4

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published: 18 Dec 2012

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JazzGoesLatin250993_1a Eddie Palmieri, Africando, Poncho Sanchez

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published: 12 Apr 2013

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Proyecto Mambo interview Eddie Palmieri

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published: 09 Oct 2012

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Eddie Palmieri interview on "Jazz Latino" KCLU - part 1

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published: 26 Aug 2011

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Oye lo que te Conviene 23-03-2012

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EDDIE PALMIERI - 50 AÑOS - Parte 2

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published: 05 May 2013

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International Jazz Day Global Concert

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published: 30 Apr 2013

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OYE LO QUE TE CONVIENE 30-11-2012

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Oye lo que te conviene con la Orquesta Latin Soul Trujillo

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Eddie Palmieri DVD Trailer

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published: 14 Jun 2010

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Eddie Palmieri & Tito Puente: Newport Jazz Festival Interview with Bill Boggs

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published: 28 Mar 2012

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BASo Interview Eddie Palmieri, Courtesy of Mambonyc.com

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published: 25 Jun 2008

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Eddie Palmieri interviewed by Christian McBride

From the show "Conversations with Christian" interviews Eddie Palmieri. Very educational.B...

published: 16 Nov 2010

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Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra

Latino music legend and nine-time Grammy winner Eddie Palmieri performing "Oyelo Que Te Co...

published: 29 Jul 2011

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Eddie Palmieri - Muñeca

Eddie Palmieri 50th Year Anniversary Music's: Eddie Palmieri: Director -- Piano Herman Oli...

published: 30 Mar 2012

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Eddie Palmieri - La Malanga - live in Berlin - 2012, July 27th

Eddie Palmieri live and open air at the HDK - presented by http://www.salsa-berlin.de - Fi...

published: 28 Jul 2012

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Eddie Palmieri - De Palo Pa' Rumba

Eddie Palmieri 50th Year Anniversary Music's: Eddie Palmieri: Director -- Piano Herman Oli...

published: 30 Mar 2012

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Video Interview with Eddie Palmieri

Salsa Central video interview with Salsa and Latin Jazz musician Eddie Palmieri. Filmed by...

published: 06 Nov 2010

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Eddie Palmieri "Puerto Rico"

from his album SENTIDO － COCO, 1972....

published: 20 Jul 2007

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Vamanos Pa'l Monte - Eddie Palmieri

I bring you.... Eddie Palmieri! With his best album, "Vamanos Pa'l Monte!" In this song, W...

published: 14 Nov 2008

author: Jason Ortiz

Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri: The Palmieri Effect

from the new CD "Simpático" (brianlynch.artistshare.com). Brian Lynch (tp); Eddie Palmieri...

published: 16 Jun 2006

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PICADILLO - EDDIE PALMIERI

PIANO - Eddie Palmieri CONGA - George Delgado FLAUTA - Karen Joseph TROMBÓN - Doug Beavers...

published: 24 Jan 2013

author: Augusto Aranzazu

Eddie Palmieri - Bilongo

El tema,de la autoría de Guillermo Rodríguez Fiffe,es interpretado por Eddie Palmieri,cant...

published: 28 Feb 2009

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Eddie Palmieri - Café

El tema,co-escrito por Eddie Palmieri,Gates y Lourdes López,es vocalizado por Ismael Quint...

published: 07 Mar 2009

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Eddie Palmieri Live @ Sing Sing - Pa La Ocha Tambo - Music Video

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published: 31 Jul 2011

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EDDIE PALMIERI - AZUCAR PA TI - (SUGAR FOR YOU) - MUSIC VIDEO

AZUCAR PA TI {sugar for you) is the crowning masterpiece of La Perfecta..At 9:35 is one of...

published: 17 Jul 2010

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EDDIE PALMIERI Y PAPO LUCCA

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Eddie Palmieri

Background information

Born (1936-12-15) December 15, 1936 (age 75)

Origin New York City, New York

Genres Salsa, Latin jazz

Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936), is a Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms.

Contents

1 Early years

2 First recordings

3 La Perfecta's influence

4 Currently

5 Discography

6 See also

7 References

8 External links

Early years [link]

Palmieri's parents migrated to New York from Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1926, and settled down in the South Bronx, a largely Hispanic neighborhood. Both he and his older brother, the late Charlie Palmieri, were born in New York. When he was only 8 years old, he would musically accompany Charlie and together they entered and participated in many talent contests.^[1]^[2]

Palmieri continued his education in the city's public school system where he was constantly exposed to music, specifically jazz. He took piano lessons for and performed at Carnegie Hall when he was 11 years old. His biggest piano influences were Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner. He was inspired by his older brother and was determined to someday form his own band - something he achieved in 1950, when he was just 14. During the 1950s, Palmieri played in various bands, including Tito Rodríguez's.^[2]

First recordings [link]

In 1961, Palmieri formed the band Conjunto La Perfecta, which included trombone player Barry Rogers and singer Ismael Quintana. During that decade, the Charanga was the Latin dance craze. The music to the Charanga required an orchestra with a flute and violins, but Palmieri also added a mixture of trumpets and trombones. Palmieri experimented by including a touch of jazz in his recordings, and creating his own interpretation of the 1960s Cuban rhythm known as mozambique. He recorded, among others, Lo Que Traigo Es Sabroso (What I Bring is Juicy) and Mozambique, before the group disbanded in 1968.^[2]^[3]

In 1971, Palmieri recorded Vamonos Pa'l Monte (Going to the Mountain) with his brother Charlie at the organ. That same year he also recorded Eddie Palmieri & Friends in Concert, At the University of Puerto Rico. In 1974, Eddie won the first ever Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording with The Sun of Latin Music (produced by Harvey Averne). On July 21, 1979, he appeared at the Amandla Festival along with Bob Marley, Dick Gregory and Patti LaBelle, amongst others.^[1]

In the 1980s, Ismael Quintana returned to the band, which also included Cheo Feliciano. Palmieri won two Grammys for the recordings of Palo Pa Rumba and Solito. He also recorded the album La Verdad (The Truth) with salsa singer Tony Vega in 1987. Next year the happiness of his success was set back by the sudden death of his brother, Charlie.^[2]

In the 1990s, Palmieri had participated in various concerts and recordings with the Fania All-Stars and the Tico All-Stars; he also introduced La India with the production of Llego La India via Eddie Palmieri (La India has arrived via Eddie Palmieri), released in 1992. In 2000, Palmieri announced his retirement from the world of music. However, he recorded Masterpiece with Tito Puente and won 2 Grammys; additionally he was also named the "Outstanding Producer of the Year" by the National Foundation of Popular Culture. Palmieri has won a total of 9 Grammy Awards in his career, most recently for his 2006 album Simpático. On November 6, 2004, Palmieri directed a "Big Band Tribute" to his late brother Charlie at Avery Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.^[2]^[3]

[edit] La Perfecta's influence

Palmieri's La Perfecta departed from the traditional Caribbean sources of salsa instrumentation by introducing a new stylistic device into the New York Latin sound. Their signature sound relied heavily on two trombones and a flute instead of trumpets. On the liner notes of their first album, Eddie's brother Charlie dubbed this combination the 'trombanga', referring to the trombones and the still popular charanga which typically featured the flute ^[4]^{[dead link]}. The combination helped to give La Perfecta a rich and bold sound which contributed to Palmieri's success with his new band. The trombone-based sound was later adopted by salsa band leader Willie Colón among others.^[2]^[3]

Currently [link]

Palmieri currently continues to be actively involved with music. He formed a new band, La Perfecta II, with whom he recorded the CD Ritmo Caliente (Hot Rhythm). On April 30, 2005, "Mi Día Bonito", a tribute to Eddie Palmieri celebrating his 50 years in the world of music, took place at the Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. The event included the participation of Lalo Rodriguez, Ismael Quintana, Cheo Feliciano, La India, Hermán Olivera, Jerry Medina, Luis Vergara and Wichy Camacho.^[1]

In November and December 2005, Palmieri teamed up with longtime trumpeter and band member Brian Lynch to record the Artistshare CD release The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project: Simpático. This CD and accompanying multimedia web site features music by an all-star roster of jazz and Latin jazz artists, including Phil Woods, Lila Downs, Donald Harrison, Conrad Herwig, Giovanni Hidalgo, Gregory Tardy, Mario Rivera, Boris Kozlov, Rubén Rodríguez, Luques Curtis, Robby Ameen, Dafnis Prieto, Pedro Martinez, Johnny Rivero, Edsel Gomez, Yosvany Terry. In 2007, the recording was awarded a Grammy as the best Latin Jazz Recording.^[1]

On March 26, 2010, an 81-year-old woman was charged with trying to kill Palmieri’s wife during a confrontation that took place in a New York City condominium.^[5]

Discography [link]

External audio

You may listen to Eddie Palmieri's "Vamanos Pa'l Monte" here

La Perfecta (1962)

El Molestoso (1963)

Lo Que Traigo es Sabroso, (1964)

Echando Pa' Lante (Straight Ahead) (1964)

Azúcar Pa' Ti (Sugar For You) (1965)

Mambo Con Conga is Mozambique (1965)

El Sonido Nuevo: The New Soul Sound (1966) (with Cal Tjader)

Bamboleate (1967) (with Cal Tjader)

Molasses (1967)

Champagne (1968)

Justicia (1969)

Superimposition (1970)

Vamonos Pa'l Monte (1971)

Live at The University of Puerto Rico (1971)

Harlem River Drive (1971)

Recorded Live at Sing Sing Vol. 1 (1972)

Recorded Live at Sing Sing Vol. 2 (1972)

Sentido (1973)

The Sun of Latin Music (with Lalo Rodriguez) (1974)

Unfinished Masterpiece (1974)

Eddie's Concerto (1976)

Lucumi, Macumba, Voodoo (1978)

Eddie Palmieri (1982)

Palo Pa' Rumba (1984)

Solito (1985)

E.P. (1985)

The Truth: La Verdad (1987)

Sueño (1992)

Music Man (1992)

Llego la India Vía Eddie Palmieri (1992) (with La India)

Palmas (1994)

Arete (1995)

Vortex (1996)

El Rumbero del Piano (1998)

Live (1999)

Masterpiece/Obra Maestra (2000) (with Tito Puente)

En Vivo Italia (2002)

La Perfecta II (2002)

Ritmo Caliente (2003)

Listen Here! (2005)

Simpático (The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project) (2006)

Salsa Brothers (2011) (with Charlie Palmieri)

See also [link]

Puerto Rico portal

List of famous Puerto Ricans

Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico

Charlie Palmieri

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Eddie Palmieri Bio.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Music of )Puerto Rico

^ ^a ^b ^c Palmieri

^ Laffitte, Louis. "Eddie Palmieri: The Sun of Latin Music". Latin Beat Magazine, June–July, 2002

^ Senior Charged With Shooting Eddie Palmieri’s Wife

External links [link]

www.eddiepalmierimusic.com — Official Homepage

www.berkeleyagency.com

www.musicofpuertorico.com

www.warr.org

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Video interview with Eddie Palmieri on Salsa-Central

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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Lucca and the second or maternal family name is Quiñonez.

Papo Lucca, playing piano with the Sonora Ponceña; his father Quique Lucca stands next to him (2006)

Enrique Arsenio Lucca Quiñonez, better known as Papo Lucca ("Papo" a being common Puerto Rican slang for "junior"), is a Puerto Rican multi-instrumentalist best known for his pianist skills. His main musical genres are Salsa and Latin Jazz. He ranks with the late Charlie Palmieri, as one of the best piano instrumentalists in Latin Jazz and Salsa.^{[citation needed]} He is the co-founder with his father Don Enrique "Quique" Lucca Caraballo of the Puerto Rican band La Sonora Ponceña. He has also played and recorded with the Fania All-Stars, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colón, Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, Bobby Valentín, Ismael Quintana, Gloria Estefan, Adalberto Santiago, Andy Montañez, Pablo Milanés, and Rubén Blades. He is also a well-known music arranger.

Papo Lucca's Sonora Ponceña (2007)

Contents

1 Biography

2 Career

3 Discography

3.1 With Sonora Ponceña

3.2 Compilations

3.3 With Ismael Quintana

3.4 Other works

3.5 As Member of The Fania All-Stars

4 Videography

5 External links

Biography [link]

Lucca Quiñonez was born on April 10, 1946, in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Career [link]

With his dynamic piano playing and unique approach to salsa, Papo Lucca has led his band, Sonora Ponceña, to the forefront of Latin music. Inheriting the group from his father, Lucca has continued to inspire Sonora Ponceña with his innovative playing. While Rubén Blades called Lucca, "the best pianist in the world", Cuban pianist Ruben Gonzalez explained, "of non-Cuban pianists, I most admire (Lucca) because his salsa is very close to son. Son piano is more varied than salsa piano which is more formulaic and holds on to a single riff much longer."

Lucca has been involved with music most of his life. A native of Ponce, a small city on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, he began studying at the city's Free School of Music at the age of six. In addition to being trained in solfeggio, he studied piano, clarinet, saxophone, and music theory. A month after he enrolled in the school, he performed a classical piece on a local radio station. Lucca simultaneously studied privately with pianist Ramon Fernandez. With his father's encouragement, Lucca advanced quickly. Performing with Sonora Ponceña at the age of eight, he made his recording debut three years later, when the group accompanied bolero vocalists Felipe Rodriguez and Davilita on their album, Al Compas De Las Sonoras. At the age of fourteen, Lucca began an "official" member of Sonora Sonora Ponceña.

Throughout the 1950s, Lucca remained active as a musician. In addition to playing solo piano on a television show hosted by Ruth Fernández, he recorded with Obdulio Morales, Orquestra Panamerica, and Machito. Despite his busy schedule, Lucca found time to continue his formal studies. Graduating from the University of Puerto Rico, he went on to study at the Conservatory of Music. His first opportunity to showcase his talents came in 1976 when he co-produced Sonora Ponceña's album, Musical Conquest/Conquista Musical, with Louie Ramirez. Two years later, he produced the group's album, Explorando, on his own. Although he's remained committed to Sonora Ponceña, Lucca has balanced his involvement with a variety of outside projects. In 1976, he replaced pianist Larry Harlow in the Fania All-Stars. He continued to perform with the group until the mid-1990s.

Lucca reached his peak in 1979. Together with Sonora Ponceña, he collaborated with influential Latin vocalist Celia Cruz on an album, La Ceiba, and appeared with Cruz in a television documentary, Salsa. The same year, he performed on an album, Habana Jam, along with the Fania All-Stars, which was recorded during a concert in Cuba. Lucca also recorded a solo piano album, Latin Jazz, in 1993.

Discography [link]

With Sonora Ponceña [link]

Al Compás de las Sonoras Felipe y Davilita (1954)

Hacheros Pa' Un Palo (1968)

Fuego en el 23! (1969)

Algo de Locura (1971)

Navidad Criolla (1971)

De Puerto Rico a New York (1972)

Sonora Ponceña (1972)

Sabor Sureño (1974)

Tiene Pimienta (1975)

Conquista Musical (1976)

El Gigante del Sur (1977)

La Orquesta de Mi Tierra (1978)

Explorando (1978)

La Ceiba with Celia Cruz (1979)

New Heights (1980)

Unchained Force (1980)

Night Rider (1981)

Determination (1982)

Future (1984)

Jubilee (1985)

Back To Work (1987)

On The Right Track (1988)

Into The 1990s (1990})

Merry Christmas (1991)

Guerreando (1992)

Birthday Party (1993)

Apretando (1995)

On Target (1998)

45° Aniversario (2001)

Back To The Road (2004)

50 Aniversario En Vivo Vol. 1 (2007)

50 Aniversario En Vivo Vol. 2 (2008)

Otra Navidad Criolla (2008)

Compilations [link]

Lo Mejor de la Sonora Ponceña (1975)

30th Anniversary Vol. 1 (1985)

30th Anniversary Vol. 2 (1985)

Soul of Puerto Rico (1993)

Opening Doors (1994)

Puro Sabor (2000)

Grandes Éxitos (2002)

Pa'l Bailador: 45 Años de Historia (2005)

La Herencia (2007)

With Ismael Quintana [link]

Mucho Talento (1980)

Other works [link]

Celia, Justo, Johnny & Papo: Recordando el Ayer (1976)

Puerto Rico All Stars (1976)

Pete y Papo (1993)

Latin Jazz (1993)

Los Originales: Azuquita y Papo Lucca (1994)

De Aquí Pa' Lla (1994)

Papo, Alfredo de la Fe y Sexteto Típico de Cuba (1997)

Papo Lucca And The Cuban-Jazz All-Stars (1998)

Festival de Boleros (2002)

As Member of The Fania All-Stars [link]

Delicate and Jumpy (1976)

A Tribute To Tito Rodríguez (1976)

Rhythm Machine (1977)

Fania All Stars Live (1978)

Spanish Fever (1978)

Habana Jam (1979)

Cross Over (1979)

Commitment (1980)

California Jam (1980)

Social Change (1981)

Latin Connection (1981)

Lo Que Pide la Gente (1984)

Viva la Charanga (1986)

Bamboleo (1988)

Guasasa (1989)

Live in Puerto Rico June 11, 1994 (1995)

Viva Colombia (1996)

Bravo '97 (1997)

Videography [link]

Fania All-Stars Live in Puerto Rico June 11, 1994 (1995)

Sonora Ponceña 45 Aniversario Live (2004)

50 Aniversario, En Vivo (2007)

External links [link]

Official Sonora Ponceña site

Sonora Ponceña CD/DVD Collection

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Alternative names

Short description

Date of birth

Place of birth

Date of death

Place of death

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Tito Puente

Background information

Birth name Ernesto Antonio Puente

Also known as Tito Puente
"El Rey de los Timbales"
The King of Latin Music

Born (1923-04-20)April 20, 1923
New York City

Died June 1, 2000(2000-06-01) (aged 77)
New York City

Genres Afro-Cuban jazz, mambo, salsa

Occupations Musician, producer

Instruments Timbales, Vibraphone

Years active 1946 - 2000

Labels Fania Records, Sony Discos, RMM Records

Associated acts La Lupe

Tito Puente, (April 20, 1923 – June 1, 2000)^[1], born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and salsa musician and composer. The son of native Puerto Ricans, Ernest and Ercilia Puente, living in New York City's Spanish Harlem community, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" (The King of the timbales) and "The King of Latin Music". He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz compositions that helped keep his career going for 50 years. He and his music appear in many films such as The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba's Calle 54. He guest starred on several television shows including Sesame Street, The Cosby Show and The Simpsons.

Contents

1 Early life

2 Career

3 Awards and recognition

4 Discography

4.1 As leader

4.2 As sideman

5 Filmography

5.1 Selected Feature Films

5.2 Documentaries

5.3 Concert films

6 Quotation

7 References

8 Further reading

9 External links

Early life [link]

Tito Puente was born on April 23, 1923, at Harlem Hospital Center in New York City.^[2]^[3] His family moved frequently, but he spent the majority of his childhood in the Spanish Harlem area of the city.^[2] Puente's father was the foreman at a razorblade factory.^[4]

As a child, he was described as hyperactive, and after neighbors complained of hearing seven-year-old Puente drumming on pots and window frames, his mother sent him to 25 cent piano lessons.^[4] By age 10, he switched to percussion, drawing influence from jazz drummer Gene Krupa.^[4] He later created a song-and-dance duo with his sister Anna in the 1930s and intended to become a dancer, but an ankle tendon injury prevented him pursuing dance as a career.^[4]^[3] When the drummer in Machito's band was drafted to the army, Puente subsequently took his place.^[4]

Career [link]

Tito Puente Sr. served in the Navy for three years during World War II after being drafted in 1942. He was discharged with a Presidential Unit Citation for serving in nine battles on the escort carrier USS Santee (CVE-29). The GI Bill allowed him to study music at Juilliard School of Music, where he completed a formal education in conducting, orchestration and theory. In 1969, he received the key to the City of New York from former Mayor John Lindsay. In 1992, he was inducted into the National Congressional Record, and in 1993 he received the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal from the Smithsonian.^[5]

During the 1950s, Puente was at the height of his popularity, and helped to bring Afro-Cuban and Caribbean sounds, like mambo, son, and cha-cha-cha, to mainstream audiences (he was so successful playing popular Afro-Cuban rhythms that many people mistakenly identify him as Cuban). Dance Mania, possibly Puente's most well known album was released in 1958.^[6] Later, he moved into more diverse sounds, including pop music, bossa nova and others, eventually settling down with a fusion of Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres that became known as "salsa" (a term that he disliked). In 1979, Puente won the first of five Grammy Awards for the albums A Tribute to Benny Moré, On Broadway, Mambo Diablo, and Goza Mi Timbal. In 1990, Puente was awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal. He was also awarded a Grammy at the first Latin Grammy Awards, winning Best Traditional Tropical Album for Mambo Birdland. In 1995, he appeared as himself on the Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" In early 2000, he shot the music documentary Calle 54, wearing an all-white outfit with his band.^[7] After a show in Puerto Rico on May 31, he suffered a massive heart attack and was flown to New York City for surgery to repair a heart valve, but complications developed and he died during the night of May 31 – June 1, 2000.^[8] He was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.

Tito Puente's name is often mentioned in a television production called La Epoca, a film about the Palladium era in New York, Afro-Cuban music and rhythms, Mambo and Salsa as dances and music and much more. The film discusses many of Tito Puente's as well as Arsenio Rodriguez's contributions, and features interviews with some of the musicians Puente recorded with such as Alfonso "El Panameno" Joseph, Luis Mangual, Julian Lianos and others.

Puente's youngest son, Tito Puente, Jr., has continued his father's legacy by presenting many of the same songs in his performances and recordings, while daughter Audrey Puente is a television meteorologist for WNYW and WWOR-TV in New York City.

Awards and recognition [link]

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Timbales on display at the Smithsonian

During the presidency of Sen. Roberto Rexach Benítez, Tito Puente received the unique honor of having both a special session of the Senate of Puerto Rico dedicated to him, and being allowed to perform in his unique style on the floor of the Senate while it was in session.

On September 10, 2007, a United States Post Office in Spanish Harlem was named after him at a ceremony presided by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Rep. José Serrano (D-NY).

An amphitheatre was named in his honor at Luis Muñoz Marín Park, next to the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Puente performed at the closing ceremonies at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. The timbales he used there are on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C.

In 1997, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.^[9]

In 1990 he received a Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. (ref Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce)

In 1984 he received an honorary Decree from the Los Angeles City Council.

On June 5, 2005, Puente was honored by Union City, New Jersey with a star on the Walk of Fame at Union City's Celia Cruz Park.^[10]

Discography [link]

As leader [link]

Puente In Percussion (1956)

Dance Mania (1958)

El Rey: Bravo (1963)

El Rey: Tito Puente & His Latin Ensemble (1984)

Percussion's King (1997)

Selection of Mambo & Cha Cha Cha (1997)

50 Years of Swing (1997)

Tito Meets Machito: Mambo Kings (1997)

Cha Cha Cha Rumba Beguine (1998)

Dance Mania '98: Live at Birdland (1998)

The Very Best of Tito Puente (1998)

Timbalero Tropical (1998)

Yambeque (1998)

Absolute Best (1999)

Carnival (1999)

Colección original (1999)

Golden Latin Jazz All Stars: In Session (1999)

Latin Flight (1999)

Latin Kings (1999)

Lo mejor de lo mejor (1999)

Mambo Birdland (1999)

Special Delivery featuring Maynard Ferguson (1999)

Rey (2000)

His Vibes & Orchestra (2000)

Cha Cha Cha for Lovers (2000)

Homenaje a Beny Moré. Vol. 3 (2000)

Dos ídolos. Su música (2000)

Tito Puente y su Orquesta Mambo (2000)

The Complete RCA Recordings. Vol. 1 (2000)

The Best of the Concord Years (2000)

Por fin (Finally) (2000)

Party with Puente! (2000)

Obra maestra (2000)

Mambo Mambo (2000)

Mambo King Meets the Queen of Salsa (2000)

Latin Abstract (2000)

Kings of Mambo (2000)

Cha Cha Cha for Lovers (2000)

The Legends Collection: Tito Puente & Celia Cruz (2001)

The Complete RCA Recordings, Vol. 2 (2001)

RCA Recordings (2001)

Puente caliente (2001)

The Best of... (2001)

King of Mambo (2001)

El Rey: Pa'lante! Straight! (2001)

Cocktail Hour (2001)

Selection. King of Mambo (2001)

Herman Meets Puente (2001)

Undisputed (2001)

Fiesta (2002)

Colección Diamante (2002)

Tito Puente y Celia Cruz (2002)

Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (2002)

King of Kings: The Very Best of Tito Puente (2002)

Hot Timbales! (2002)

Dr. Feelgood (2002)

Carnaval de éxitos (2002)

Caravan Mambo (2002)

We Love Salsa (2006)

As sideman [link]

With Dizzy Gillespie

Rhythmstick (1990)

Filmography [link]

Selected Feature Films [link]

Armed and Dangerous (1986)

Radio Days (1987)

Documentaries [link]

Tito Puente: The King of Latin Music (2000)^[11]

PROFILES featuring Tito Puente Jr. (2007)

Latin Knights (2005)

Calle 54 (2000)^[12]

Concert films [link]

Tito Puente - Live in Montreal (Montreal Jazz Festival) (1983) (2003)

Quotation [link]

“ We play jazz with the Latin touch, that's all, you know. ”

^[13]

References [link]

^ http://www.bookrags.com/biography/tito-puente/

^ ^a ^b Siegal, Nina (June 6, 2000). "The New York Legacy of Tito Puente". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/06/nyregion/the-new-york-legacy-of-tito-puente.html?src=pm. Retrieved March 26, 2012.

^ ^a ^b Ginell, Richard S.. "Tito Puente - Biography". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://allmusic.com/artist/tito-puente-p3402/biography. Retrieved March 26, 2012.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Obejas, Achy (June 2, 2000). "He Beat The Drum For Latin Music". Chicago Tribune (Tribune Company). http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-06-02/news/0006020139_1_tito-puente-latin-music-eddie-palmieri. Retrieved March 23, 2012.

^ Awards and Medals from Smithsonian

^ Wilds, Tony. Allmusic. "Dance Mania Review".

^ Calle 54 Video Commentary

^ "Latin musician Tito Puente dies after heart surgery". CNN. June 1, 2000. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/01/tito.puente/index.html. Retrieved June 1, 2010.

^ Lifetime Honors - National Medal of Arts

^ Rosero, Jessica. "'La vida es un carnaval' North Hudson celebrates 6th annual Cuban Day Parade" The Hudson Reporter; May 26, 2006

^ Fresh Bread’s work in the entertainment - Tito Puente

^ IMDB

^ Du Noyer, Paul (2003). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music (1st ed.). Fulham, London: Flame Tree Publishing. p. 148. ISBN 1-904041-96-5.

Further reading [link]

Steven Loza (1999) Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music, University of Illinois Press

Josephine Powell (2007) "Tito Puente:When The Drums Are Dreaming", (Authorhouse 2007)

External links [link]

Tito Puente at NPR Music

Tito Puente on the Internet Movie Database

Tito Puente at Find a Grave

"Tito Puente: The Complete 78s (1949-1955)" by Ted Giorgia (Jazz.com)

Tito Puente - King of Latin Music, by Jim Payne and Tito Puente

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Name Puente, Tito

Alternative names Puente, Sr., Tito; Antonio Puente, Jr., Ernesto

Short description Latin jazz and mambo musician

Date of birth April 20, 1923

Place of birth New York City

Date of death June 1, 2000

Place of death New York City

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Bill Boggs

Born William Boggs III
(1946-07-11) July 11, 1946 (age 65)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Education University of Pennsylvania

Occupation Television journalist

William "Bill" Boggs III (born July 11, 1946) is an Emmy Award–winning American television presenter and journalist.

Boggs was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the celebrity correspondent for the syndicated My Generation television show airing on PBS, featuring interviews inspired by his 2007 HarperCollins book, Got What it Takes?: Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top. The book includes interviews with Renée Zellweger, Donald Trump, Sir Richard Branson, Clive Davis, Joe Torre, and others. He has also published a novel, At First Sight, with Grosett and Dunlap publishers.^{[citation needed]}

A former news anchorman for WNBC in New York, Boggs also presented several game shows for CBS. He created the first national restaurant review show, TV Diners, for the Food Network, and spent many years hosting the network's first non-cooking show, the celebrity interview show, Bill Boggs' Corner Table. Boggs co-executive produced and hosted TV's first syndicated stand up comedy series, Comedy Tonight in the late 1980s.^{[citation needed]}

Boggs appeared in several film and television dramas including Oz and Miami Vice. In New York City, he is also known for his stint in the 1970s as host of Midday Live on WNEW (now WNYW), succeeding Lee Leonard.^[1]

He debuted a solo stage show called Talk Show Confidential in 2003. The show, which includes stories and rare video clips from his years as a television talk show host, is currently running at the Triad Theatre in New York City.^[2]

Personal life [link]

He was briefly married to Canadian actress Linda Thorson; the couple have a son.

References [link]

^ "Bill Boggs' Official Biography Page". http://www.billboggs.com/bio.htm. Retrieved July 15, 2011.

^ "Bill Boggs' Biography Page on "Talk Show Confidential" Official Site". http://www.talkshowconfidential.com/bio.html. Retrieved July 15, 2011.

External links [link]

Bill Boggs at the Internet Movie Database

Personal Website

Persondata

Name Boggs, Bill

Alternative names

Short description

Date of birth 1944

Place of birth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Date of death

Place of death

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Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr.
("Cal Tjader")

File:Cal Tjader.jpg

Background information

Birth name Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr.

Born (1925-07-16)July 16, 1925
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Origin San Mateo, California, United States

Died May 5, 1982(1982-05-05) (aged 56)
Manila, Philippines

Genres Jazz, Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz

Occupations musician, bandleader

Years active 1948–1982

Labels Fantasy, Verve, Skye, Concord Records

Associated acts The Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet, The Cal Tjader Quartet

Notable instruments

vibraphone, drum kit, piano, timbales, bongos and congas.

Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader (July 16, 1925–May 5, 1982) was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his death.

Tjader primarily played the vibraphone. He was also accomplished on the drums, bongos, congas, timpani, and the piano. He worked with numerous musicians from several cultures. He is often linked to the development of Latin Rock and Acid Jazz. Although fusing jazz with Latin music is often categorized as "Latin Jazz" (or, earlier, "Afro-Cuban Jazz"), Tjader's output swung freely between both styles.

He won a Grammy in 1980 for his album La Onda Va Bien, capping off a career that spanned over forty years.

Contents

1 Early years (1925–1943)

2 Army and college (1940s)

3 Sideman (1951–1954)

4 Leader (1954–1962)

5 Verve and Skye Records (1960s)

6 Lean years (1970s)

7 Final years (1979 to 1982)

8 Legacy

9 Discography

9.1 Albums

9.2 Tribute albums

10 References

11 External links

Early years (1925–1943)[link]

Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. (last name pronounced "chay-der") was born 16 July 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri to touring Swedish American vaudevillians. His father tap danced and his mother played piano, a husband-wife team going from city to city with their troupe to earn a living. (His grandfather was Dr. Anton William Tjader, a notable Nevada surgeon mentioned in Mark Twain's Early Tales and Sketches.) At the age of two, Tjader's parents settled in San Mateo, California and opened a dance studio. His mother (who dreamed of becoming a concert pianist) instructed him in classical piano and his father taught him to tap dance. He performed around the Bay Area as "Tjader Junior", a tap-dancing wunderkind. He performed a brief non-speaking role dancing alongside Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the film The White of the Dark Cloud of Joy.

He joined a Dixieland band and played around the Bay Area. At age sixteen, he entered a Gene Krupa drum solo contest, making it to the finals and ultimately winning by playing "Drum Boogie." The win was overshadowed by that morning's event: Japanese planes had bombed Pearl Harbor.

Army and college (1940s)[link]

Tjader entered the United States Army in 1943 and served as a medic until 1946. Upon his return he enrolled at San Jose State College under the G.I. Bill, majoring in education. (He hoped to become a schoolteacher.) Later he transferred to San Francisco State College, still intending to teach. It was there he took timpani lessons, his only formal music training.

At San Francisco State he met Dave Brubeck, a young pianist also fresh from a stint in the Army. Brubeck introduced Tjader to Paul Desmond. The three connected with more players and formed the Dave Brubeck Octet with Tjader on drums. Although the group only recorded one album (and had an abysmal time finding work), the recording is regarded as important due to its early glimpse at these soon-to-be-legendary jazz greats.

After the Octet disbanded, Tjader and Brubeck formed a trio, performing jazz standards in the hope of finding more work. The Dave Brubeck Trio succeeded and became a fixture in the San Francisco jazz scene. Tjader taught himself the vibraphone in this period, alternating between it and the drums depending on the song.

Sideman (1951–1954)[link]

Brubeck suffered major injuries in a diving accident in 1951 in Hawaii and the trio was forced to dissolve. Tjader continued the trio work in California with bassist Jack Weeks from Brubeck's trio and pianists John Marabuto or Vince Guaraldi, recording his first 10" LP as a leader with them for Fantasy, but soon worked with Alvino Rey and completed his degree at San Francisco State.

Jazz pianist George Shearing recruited Tjader in 1953 when Joe Roland left his group. Al McKibbon was a member of Shearing's band at the time and he and Tjader encouraged Shearing to add Cuban percussionists. Tjader played bongos as well as the vibes - "Drum Trouble" was his bongo solo feature. Down Beat's 1953 Critics Poll nominated him as best New Star on the vibes. His next 10" LP as a leader was recorded for Savoy during that time, as well as his first Latin Jazz for a Fantasy 10" LP.

While in New York City, bassist Al McKibbon took Tjader to see the Afro-Cuban big bands led by Machito and Chico O'Farrill, both at the forefront of the nascent Latin jazz sound. In New York he also met Mongo Santamaría and Willie Bobo who were members of Tito Puente's orchestra at the time. Tjader is often credited as the musician who brought the vibraphones to Latin jazz. However, John Storm Roberts points out that Tito Puente deserves the title, as he performed Afro-Cuban tunes on the vibraphone in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Leader (1954–1962)[link]

Tjader soon quit Shearing after a gig at a San Francisco jazz club called The Blackhawk. In April 1954, he formed The Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet. The members were brothers Manuel and Carlos Duran on piano and bass respectively, Bayardo "Benny" Velarde on timbales, bongos, and congas, and Edgard Rosales on congas (Luis Miranda replaced Rosales after the first year). Back in San Francisco and recording for Fantasy Records, the group produced several albums in rapid succession, including Mambo with Tjader.

The Mambo craze reached its pitch in the late 1950s, a boon to Tjader's career. Unlike the exotica of Martin Denny and Les Baxter, music billed as "impressions of" Oceania (and other locales), Tjader's bands featured seasoned Cuban players and top-notch jazz talent conversant in both idioms. Some consider his Modern Mambo Quintet his greatest band, and perhaps the greatest small-combo Latin jazz band ever.

Tjader also cut several notable straight-ahead jazz albums for Fantasy under separate groups, most notably The Cal Tjader Quartet (composed of bassist Gene Wright, drummer Al Torre, and Vince Guaraldi). As such, he is considered a member of San Francisco's flourishing 1950s bebop scene. Tjader is sometimes lumped in as part of the West Coast (or "cool") jazz sound, although his rhythms and tempos (both Latin and bebop) had little in common with the work of Los Angeles jazzmen Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, or Art Pepper. He did team up with legendary jazz saxophonist Stan Getz in 1958, producing a well-received album.

Tjader and his band opened the second Monterey Jazz Festival in 1959 with an acclaimed "preview" concert. The first festival had suffered financially. Tjader is credited with bringing in big ticket sales for the second and saving the landmark festival before it had even really started.

The Modern Mambo Quintet disbanded within a couple of years. Tjader formed several more small-combo bands, playing regularly at such San Francisco jazz clubs as the Blackhawk.

Verve and Skye Records (1960s)[link]

After recording for Fantasy for nearly a decade, Tjader signed with better-known Verve Records, founded originally by Norman Granz but owned by then by MGM. With the luxury of larger budgets and seasoned recording producer Creed Taylor in the control booth, Tjader cut a varied string of albums. During the Verve years Tjader worked with Donald Byrd, Lalo Schifrin, Anita O'Day, Willie Bobo, Armando Peraza, a young Chick Corea, Clare Fischer, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Burrell, and others. Tjader recorded with big band orchestras for the first time, and even made an album based on Asian scales and rhythms.

His biggest success was the album Soul Sauce (1964). Its title track, a Dizzy Gillespie cover Tjader had been toying with for over a decade, was a radio hit (hitting the top 20 on New York's influential pop music station WMCA in May 1965), and landed the album on Billboard's Top 50 Albums of 1965. Originally titled "Guachi Guaro" (a nonsensical phrase in Spanish), Tjader transformed the Gillespie/Chano Pozo composition into something new. (The name "Soul Sauce" came from Taylor's suggestion for a catchier title and Bobo's observation that Tjader's version was spicier than the original.) The song's identifiable sound is a combination of the call-outs made by Bobo ("Salsa ahi na ma ... sabor, sabor!") and Tjader's crisp vibes work. The album sold over 100,000 copies and popularized the word salsa in describing Latin dance music.

The 1960s were Tjader's most prolific period. With the backing of a major record label, he could afford to stretch out and expand his repertoire. The most obvious deviation from his Latin jazz sound was Several Shades of Jade (1963) and the follow-up Breeze From the East (1963). Both albums attempted to combine jazz and Asian music, much as Tjader and others had done with Afro-Cuban. The result was dismissed by the critics, chided as little more than the dated exotica that had come and gone in the prior decade.

Other experiments were not so easily dismissed. Tjader teamed up with New Yorker Eddie Palmieri in 1966 to produce El Sonido Nuevo ("The New Sound"). A companion LP was recorded for Palmieri's contract label, Tico, titled Bamboleate.

While Tjader's prior work was often dismissed as "Latin lounge", here the duo created a darker, more sinister sound. Cal Tjader Plays The Contemporary Music Of Mexico And Brazil (1962), released during the bossa nova craze, actually bucked the trend, instead using more traditional arrangements from the two countries' past.

In the late 1960s Tjader, along with guitarist Gábor Szabó and Gary McFarland, helped to found the short-lived Skye record label. Tjader's work of this period is characterized by a groovier, almost funk-based sound. Solar Heat (1968) and Tjader Plugs In (1968–69) are precursors to acid jazz and remain valued among rare groove fans today.

Lean years (1970s)[link]

During the 1970s Tjader bounced from Verve to Skye and then back to Fantasy, the label he'd started with in 1954. Attempting to stay current and relevant, Tjader added electronic instruments to his lineup and began to employ rock beats behind his arrangements. His most notable album during this period is Amazonas (1975) (produced by Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira). He also played on the soundtrack to the 1972 animated film release Fritz the Cat, most notably on the track entitled "Mamblues".

It was in this period Tjader discovered and groomed conguero Poncho Sanchez. Sanchez has called Tjader his "musical father".

In 1976 Tjader recorded several live shows performed at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Like the Monterey Jazz Festival show, he played a mix of jazz standards and Latin arrangements. Later he toured Japan with saxophonist Art Pepper, the latter recovering from alcohol and drug dependencies. These shows were considered successful in a time when jazz music was increasingly seen as anachronistic.

Final years (1979 to 1982)[link]

Carl Jefferson, president of Concord Records, created a subsidiary label called Concord Picante to market Latin jazz. In reality, Jefferson formed the label specifically to promote and distribute Tjader's work, whom he'd recently signed.

Unlike his excursions in the 1960s and his jazz-rock attempts in the 1970s, Tjader's Concord Picante work was largely straight-ahead Latin jazz. Electronic instruments and rock backbeats were dropped, reverting to a more "classic" sound. During the prior decade he'd built up a top-notch crew of young musicians, his best lineup since his Modern Mambo Quintet of the 1950s, with Mark Levine on piano, Roger Glenn on flute, Vince Lateano on drums, Robb Fisher on the bass, and Poncho Sanchez on the congas.

Tjader cut five albums for Concord Picante, the most successful being La Onda Va Bien (1979) (roughly "The Good Life") which earned a Grammy award in 1980 for Best Latin Recording. That Onda would win an award as best Latin album reveals Tjader's expertise and his ability to cultivate the same in his band. La Onda Va Bien is regarded as a seminal Latin Jazz album.

The A section of Tjader's "Sabor" is a 2-3 onbeat/offbeat guajeo, minus some notes.

A section of "Sabor" by João Donato, as arranged by Mark Levine, and performed by Cal Tjader.

Just as lifelong performer Tjader was born on tour, he also died on tour. On the road with his band in Manila, he collapsed from a heart attack and died on 5 May 1982.

Legacy [link]

Alongside Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson, many vibraphonists today count Tjader as a vital influence, including Dave Pike, Spyro Gyra's Dave Samuels, and Ruben Estrada. Latin rock guitarist Carlos Santana also named Tjader as a forebearer.

Tjader's legacy is associated with Gábor Szabó and Gary McFarland's, who worked and founded Skye Records together.

The American Hip-Hop Band, "A Tribe Called Quest" sampled songs from Cals', "Aquarius" as an outro to most of the songs off the album, "Midnight Marauders."

Discography [link]

Albums [link]

Vibrations (Savoy, 1951)

Cal Tjader: Vibist (Savoy, 1953)

Cal Tjader, Vol. 1 (Savoy, 1953)

The Cal Tjader Trio (Fantasy, 1953)

Tjader Plays Mambo (Fantasy, 1954)

Mambo with Tjader (Fantasy, 1954)

Tjader Plays Tjazz (Fantasy, 1954)

Plays Afro-Cuban (Fantasy, 1954)

Cal Tjader Quartet (Fantasy, 1956)

The Cal Tjader Quartet (Fantasy, 1956)

Latin Kick (Fantasy, 1956)

The Cal Tjader Quintet (Fantasy, 1956)

Jazz at the Blackhawk (Fantasy, 1957)

Más ritmo caliente (Fantasy, 1957)

Cal Tjader (Fantasy, 1957)

The Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet (Fantasy, 1958)

Cal Tjader's Latin Concert (Fantasy, 1958)

Latin for Lovers with Strings (Fantasy, 1958)

San Francisco Moods (Fantasy, 1958)

Concert by the Sea, Vol. 1 (Fantasy, 1959)

Concert by the Sea, Vol. 2 (Fantasy, 1959)

Cal Tjader Goes Latin (Fantasy, 1959)

Live and Direct (Fantasy, 1959)

A Night at the Blackhawk (Fantasy, 1959)

West Side Story (Fantasy, 1960)

Concert on the Campus (Fantasy, 1960)

Demasado caliente (Fantasy, 1960)

Latino (Fantasy, 1960)

In a Latin Bag (Verve, 1961)

Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen (Fantasy, 1961)

Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings (Fantasy, 1961)

The Cal Tjader Quartet (Fantasy, 1961)

Saturday Night / Sunday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco (Verve, 1962)

Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil (Verve, 1962)

Cal Tjader Live and Direct (Fantasy, 1962)

The Cal Tjader Quartet (Fantasy, 1962)

Anita O'Day / Cal Tjader: Time for Two (Verve, 1962)

Sona libre (Verve, 1963)

Several Shades of Jade (Verve, 1963)

Breeze from the East (Verve, 1963)

Warm Wave (Verve, 1964)

Soul Sauce (Verve, 1965)

Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (Verve, 1965)

Soul Burst (Verve, 1966)

Cal Tjader and Eddie Palmieri: El sonido nuevo / The New Soul Sound (Verve, 1966)

Latin for Dancers (Fantasy, 1966)

Eddie Palmieri / Cal T'jader: Bamboléate (Tico, 1967)

Along Comes Cal (Verve, 1967)

Hip Vibrations (Verve, 1967)

The Prophet (Verve, 1968)

Solar Heat (Skye, 1968)

Sounds Out Burt Bacharach (Skye, 1968)

Plugs In (Skye, 1969)

Live at the Funky Quarters (Fantasy, 1970)

Primo (Fantasy, 1970)

Agua dulce (Fantasy, 1971)

Descarga (Fantasy, 1971)

Cal Tjader and Charlie Byrd: Tambu (Fantasy, 1973)

Puttin' It Together (Fantasy, 1975)

Amazonas (Fantasy, 1975)

Grace Cathedral Concert (Fantasy, 1976)

Guarabe (Fantasy, 1976)

Here (Fantasy, 1977)

Breathe Easy (Fantasy, 1977)

Tjader (Fantasy, 1978)

La onda va bien (Concord Picante, 1979)

Gózame! Pero ya (Concord Picante, 1980)

The Shining Sea (Concord Picante, 1981)

A fuego vivo (Concord Picante, 1981)

Cal Tjader and Carmen McRae: Heat Wave (Concord Jazz, 1982)

Good Vibes (Concord Picante, 1984)

Latin + Jazz = Cal Tjader (DCC, 1990; recorded 1968)

Huracán (LaserLight Digital, 1990; recorded 1978)

Last Night When We Were Young (Fantasy, 1991)

Concerts in the Sun (Fantasy, 2002; recordings from 1960)

Cuban Fantasy (Fantasy, 2003; live recordings from 1977)

Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-1980 (Concord, 2008)

Tribute albums [link]

Louie Ramirez: Tribute to Cal Tjader (Caimán, 1986)

Poncho Sanchez: Soul Sauce: Memories of Cal Tjader (Concord, 1995)

Dave Samuels: Tjader-ized : A Cal Tjader Tribute (Verve, 1998)

Gary Burton: For Hamp, Red, Bags, and Cal (Concord Jazz, 2001)

Paquito D'Rivera and his Latin Jazz Ensemble with Louie Ramírez: A Tribute to Cal Tjader (Yemayá, 2003)

References [link]

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1980). Early Tales & Sketches 1851-1864 (Works of Mark Twain). University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03186-5

Pepper, Art and Laurie Pepper (1979). Straight Life. New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-306-80558-8

Roberts, John Storm (1999). Latin Jazz: The First of the Fusions, 1880s to Today. New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-8256-7192-2

Yanow, Scott (2000). Afro-Cuban Jazz. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. ISBN 0-87930-619-X

External links [link]

Biography portal

Soul Vibrations: The Cal Tjader Website

The complete Cal Tjader discography from Music City

Space Age Pop

Cached history of Dr. Anton William Tjader, by Gary Tjader

Excerpt from Early Tales and Sketches referring to Dr. Anton Tjader

Downbeat's 1953 Critics Poll

Poncho Sanchez: Straight-ahead Jazz With A Little Salsa On The Side

Persondata

Name Tjader, Cal

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Short description

Date of birth July 16, 1925

Place of birth St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Date of death May 5, 1982

Place of death Manila, Philippines

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Eddie Palmieri

Background information
Born	(1936-12-15) December 15, 1936 (age 75)
Origin	New York City, New York
Genres	Salsa, Latin jazz

Persondata
Name	Palmieri, Eddie
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Date of birth	December 15, 1936
Place of birth
Date of death
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Persondata
Name	Lucca, Papo
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Tito Puente

Background information
Birth name	Ernesto Antonio Puente
Also known as	Tito Puente "El Rey de los Timbales" The King of Latin Music
Born	(1923-04-20)April 20, 1923 New York City
Died	June 1, 2000(2000-06-01) (aged 77) New York City
Genres	Afro-Cuban jazz, mambo, salsa
Occupations	Musician, producer
Instruments	Timbales, Vibraphone
Years active	1946 - 2000
Labels	Fania Records, Sony Discos, RMM Records
Associated acts	La Lupe

Persondata
Name	Puente, Tito
Alternative names	Puente, Sr., Tito; Antonio Puente, Jr., Ernesto
Short description	Latin jazz and mambo musician
Date of birth	April 20, 1923
Place of birth	New York City
Date of death	June 1, 2000
Place of death	New York City

Bill Boggs
Born	William Boggs III (1946-07-11) July 11, 1946 (age 65) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	Television journalist

Persondata
Name	Boggs, Bill
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1944
Place of birth	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death

Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. ("Cal Tjader")
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Background information
Birth name	Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr.
Born	(1925-07-16)July 16, 1925 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Origin	San Mateo, California, United States
Died	May 5, 1982(1982-05-05) (aged 56) Manila, Philippines
Genres	Jazz, Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz
Occupations	musician, bandleader
Years active	1948–1982
Labels	Fantasy, Verve, Skye, Concord Records
Associated acts	The Cal Tjader Modern Mambo Quintet, The Cal Tjader Quartet
Notable instruments
vibraphone, drum kit, piano, timbales, bongos and congas.

Persondata
Name	Tjader, Cal
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	July 16, 1925
Place of birth	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Date of death	May 5, 1982
Place of death	Manila, Philippines

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