Eddie Palmieri - Listen Here
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Artist: Eddie PalmieriEdition: Music CD
Audio: Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
- In Flight
- Listen Here
- Vals Con Bata
- Tema Para Eydie
- Tin Tin Deo
- In Walked Bud
- La Gitana
- Nica's Dream
- Mira Flores
- EP Blues
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Music Review: Eddie Palmieri's crowning achievement
Rating: 5 Stars
The 68-year-old Mr. Palmieri, celebrating 50 years in the music business with this release, has lost none of his fire even as he's achieved a gravitas and presence without peer in Latin Jazz. Combining an approach that draws from the masters of 20th century jazz piano, including Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Thelonius Monk, and McCoy Tyner--and even younger players like Hilton Ruiz and Danilo Perez--in the end he carves out a place for himself that is uniquely his own.
It helps to have a working band comprising some of the very finest jazz musicians on the scene today: Brian Lynch (trumpet); Conrad Herwig (trombone), Donald Harrison (alto sax), John Benitez (bass), Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez (drums), and Giovanni Hildago (congas). Add to that guest appearances by Michael Brecker (tenor sax), Regina Carter (violin), John Scofield (acoustic and electric guitar), David Sanchez (tenor sax), Nicholas Payton (trumpet), and Christian McBride (bass), and you have a musical assemblage of astounding range and expression. Combine all the above with some brilliantly chosen standards and some very attractive Palmieri originals, killer arrangements full of surprise, nuance, and exuberance, a very high level of commitment by all the players (no one's mailing in their chops here!), and a recording of extreme clarity and brilliance, and you have, I think it can be said without contradiction, one of the very finest discs of Latin jazz every recorded.
I especially like the way the leader has organized the program: the originals and standards, the slower numbers and more up-tempo ones--all flowing together in almost suite-like fashion. And he gives the guest soloists quite different and challenging settings to strut their stuff. Brecker, who seems to be popping up almost everywhere lately, delivers some very powerful playing on his two guest spots, as do Carter (with a crazy pizzicato solo) and Scofield (playing some mind-boggling acoustic on "La Gitana"). But the biggest surprise for me is David Sanchez, a ridiculously talented player who never seems to have found exactly the right context for his prodigious chops. He ends up nearly stealing the show with his playing on "Tin Tin Deo," the old Dizzy gem.
What sets this disc apart, finally, is not just the level of musicianship. It's the masterful tempi variations, the brilliant palette of musical colors, and the stunning arrangements. Latin jazz too often can begin to sound all the same, kind of like one big wall of dancing horns and percussion assaulting the weary listener. Not here. There's such tonal and rhythmic variety that one is treated to a veritable banquet of musical offerings, all inventively prepared and served. The result is aural gustation of uncommon pleasure.
Sure to be a disc gracing many top ten lists at year's end.
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.The Puerto Rican pianist/bandleader Eddie Palmieri has reigned as "The Sun of Latin Music" for fifty years. He innovated salsa music with his two-trombone La Perfecta groups, and his propulsive piano style combines McCoy Tyner?s power and Thelonious Monk?s dark, chordal shadings. On this CD, Palmieri is backed by his long-time combo, augmented by special guest stars. Six of the ten tracks were written by the maestro, including the evocative trio track, "La Gitana" with guitarist John Scofield. But the highlights of this date are Palmieri?s sizzling takes on four jazz classics. The Dizzy Gillespie hit "Tin Tin Deo" is signatured by David Sanchez's Latin-tempoed tenor. Monk?s "In Walked Bud," dances with a Palladium-era pulse. Horace Silver?s "Nica?s Dream" is graced by violinist Regina Carter's sparkling strings and Nicholas Payton's neoclassic trumpet tones. The Eddie Harris-penned title track, with Michael Brecker's Traneish solo and Christian McBride's bold basslines, shows why Mr. Palmieri?s recording represents the finest in Afro-Cubop. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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