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Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri
Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936) is a Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is the founder of the bands "La Perfecta" & "La Perfecta II". In 1961, Palmieri founded the band Conjunto La Perfecta, which featured singer Ismael Quintana. Apart from the big bands, at the beginning of the decade the Charanga was the Latin dance craze. Essential to the Charanga style is the five key wooden flute and at least two violins. Palmieri decided to replace the violins with two trombones for a heavier sound. Two key elements to the 'Palmieri' sound were trombonists Barry Rogers (who was very influential to the fourth chords sound that Palmieri is known for) and Brazilian-born Jose Rodríguez. Together they were responsible for many of the 'head' arrangements, mambos and moñas that the band recorded. George Castro (flute), Manny Oquendo (bongó and timbales), Tommy López (conga) and Dave Pérez (bass) rounded out the group. To this day, the group is known as one of the swingingest, danceable, innovative and influential groups of that period. Palmieri experimented by including a touch of jazz in his recordings, and incorporating a popular.
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