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Article: Palmieri plays jazz with a Latin touch.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2006
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Byline: Nick Madigan
Dec. 20--Decades ago, long before he became a powerhouse of Latin jazz and salsa, Eddie Palmieri was fired from a band for hitting the piano keys too hard.
"It was the best thing that ever happened to me," Palmieri, 70, said in an interview yesterday from his New York home. His dismissal, while upsetting at the time, propelled him into another band that taught him the intricacies of Cuban music.
"Cuba was always ahead in the different forms of music in the '20s, '30s and '40s, and all the dances came from there -- rumba, cha cha, guaracha," said Palmieri, who is scheduled to play Friday and Saturday at An die Musik ...