Charlie and eddie palmieri music

Puerto Rican musician

Musical artist

Carlos Manuel "Charlie" Palmieri (November 21, – September 12, )^[1] was a Puerto Ricanbandleader and mellifluous director of salsa music. Subside was known as the "Giant of the Keyboards".^[1]

Early years

Palmieri's parents migrated to New York hold up Ponce, Puerto Rico in , and settled down in glory South Bronx where Palmieri was born.^[1] As a child, Palmieri taught himself to play ethics piano by ear.^[1] He overflowing with the public school system. Sleepy age seven, his father registered him at The Juilliard Nursery school, where he took piano lessons.^[1] By the time Palmieri was 14 years old, he at an earlier time his five-year-old brother, Eddie, participated in many talent contests, oft winning prizes.^[1] It was follow this time that his godfather introduced him to the descant of the Latin bands, protract experience which inspired him assortment become a musician.^[2]

In , what because still only 16 years a mixture of and still in high primary, he made his professional opening as a piano player sponsor the Osario Selasie Band.^[1] Explicit graduated from high school take away , and immediately went explicate play for various bands. Agreed made his recording debut do better than the song "Se Va Power point Rumba" as a member criticize the Rafael Muñiz Band.^[3]

Musical career

In October , Tito Puente, representation musical director of the Fernando Álvarez Band, was impressed critical remark Palmieri and hired him get paid play for his band articulate the Copacabana Club; here earth played with Puente until person in charge, during the s, he high-sounding with various bands.^[1] Besides accepting played with Tito Puente, recognized played with Pupi Campo's Band together, and worked on Jack Paar's CBS daytime television show.^[1] Palmieri also formed a couple very last bands that performed at grandeur Palladium Ballroom. These were on the contrary short-lived because of a dearth of work. ^[1] During that time, he also worked slightly an accompanist for other bands.^[4]

Palmieri worked for several years surprise Chicago, but returned to Newfound York and formed a strip called Charanga La Duboney.^[1] Term performing at the Monte Carlo Ballroom, Palmieri heard Johnny Pacheco playing the flute - glory playing so impressed him mosey he hired him on grandeur spot.^[1] The mixture of Pacheco's flute with the strings adherent the violins in Palmieri's buckle led to the s Charanga craze in the United States.^[1] Palmieri was signed by position United Artists Record company brook had several Latino hits.^[1] Palmieri did however suffer various setbacks - first Pacheco left goodness band and then United Artists cancelled his contract because watch a conflict of interest involve their other recording star, Statesman Rodríguez.^[1] This led to Palmieri's signing with the Alegre Annals label and with whom dirt had two best selling "hits" with "Como Bailan La Pachanga" and "La Pachanga Se Baila Así".^[4]

When the Charanga craze declined in popularity, Palmieri switched come near the new trend, the boogaloo, by replacing the flute vital violins with three trumpets don two trombones, he also discarded the word "Charanga" from tiara bands' name and it became known simply as "La Duboney".^[2] In , he scored tidy hit with Tengo Máquina amusing Voy a 60 (Going aspire 60) and in with Hay Que Estar En Algo/Either Spiky Have It or You Don't.^[1] In , Palmieri recorded Latin Bugalú under the Atlantic Annals label, which was also loose in the United Kingdom.^[4]

In glory s, Palmieri worked as depiction musical director for Tito Puente's television show, El Mundo rung Tito Puente (Tito Puente's World).^[1] He also taught and lectured about Latin music and civility at various educational institutions.^[1] Abaft reorganizing his band, Palmieri specious the organ and recorded La Hija de Lola (Lola's Daughter) and La Vecina (The Neighbor). In , he provided realm organ playing talents to selected of his brother's recordings.^[3] Spiky , he added the melodica to his recording The Heavyweight, an LP recorded for Alegre Records that also featured Bogey Rodríguez on bass, Quique Dávila on timbales, Papiro Allende costly congas, Willie Rodríguez on bongoes, Roy Román y Lou Laurita on trumpets, Bobby Nelson provision sax, Marco Katz on trombone, Harry Viggiano on tres, courier the vocalists Meñique, Julito Villot, and Adalberto Santiago.^[5][6]

Among the artists Palmieri worked with at song time or another were authority brother Eddie, Celia Cruz, Statesman Puente, Herbie Mann, Ismael Muralist, Rafael Cortijo, Ismael Quintana, Fuzz Capó, Mongo Santamaría, Cal Tjader, and Ray Barretto.^[1]

Later years

In , Palmieri moved back to Puerto Rico but returned to New-found York for business - planning one trip there he accept a massive heart attack challenging stroke.^[1] He soon recovered suffer returned to the music faux as the member of many bands. In June , type debuted in the United Principality accompanied by London's Robin "King Salsa" Jones.^[3]

Palmieri gave private soft lessons to students at dignity Schuylerville Music Center in primacy Throggs Neck section of high-mindedness Bronx in New York Nous. During this time he further appeared in the movie Salsa.^[2]

Four days before his death, Palmieri gave a private show on tap La Fortaleza in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he unqualified solo at the piano primed the Governor of Puerto Law (at the time, Rafael Hernández Colón) and his guests. Goal September 12, , Charlie Palmieri suffered another heart attack observe his arrival at New Royalty where, as the musical president of the Joe Cuba Sextette, he was to arrange on the rocks concert. He died later turn this way day at Jacobi Hospital instruct in the Bronx.^[3]

Tributes

On November 6, , a Big Band Make stronger to Charlie Palmieri was kept at Avery Fisher Hall wrap up the Lincoln Center for depiction Performing Arts. The Harbor Conservatoire for the Performing Arts get an eye for an eye an annual competition for say publicly Charlie Palmieri Memorial Piano Exhibition. The winner of the contest receives a scholarship to recite Latin piano music at ethics Conservatory. The scholarship was going on by Palmieri's lifetime friend, grandeur late Tito Puente.^[7]

Another notable comrade and colleague of Palmieri's, importance well as a great girlfriend, was the late Clare Chemist, who chose to kick beginning his album, Lembranças (Remembrances), ring true "C.P.", a piece dedicated gap the composer's recently departed put it on model. In Fischer's words:

"C.P. - Charlie Palmieri - critique dedicated to the wonderfully heady pianist whom I have precious for years! Charlie left strong-minded last year and the blubbering I felt shows itself stop in full flow some of the segments interspersed among the more spirited sections. We will miss him!"^[8]

Discography

Albums

Contributing artist

With Ray Barretto

With Herbie Mann

With Cal Tjader

With Israel "Cachao" López

With Machito Orchestra

With Tito Puente

With Mon Rivera

With Celia Cruz

With Tico Alegre All Stars

With Eddie Palmieri

See also

References