Eddie Palmieri has been making musical magic on stages around the world for more than 7 decades. Still, he considers himself a student. 🎹
is one of the most renowned Latin jazz band leaders of the last century. The 10-time Grammy winner has created musical magic on stages around the world for the past seven decades.
His first love was playing timbales, but his mother insisted on piano. And he followed his older brother, the famed Charlie Palmieri, to study with renowned African American composer and pianist Margaret Bonds at her studio in Carnegie Hall.Charlie Palmieri played piano as a member of Tito Puente’s band. And he opened doors for his little brother. The Palladium Ballroom was the hot spot of the Manhattan Latin music scene at that time.
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