Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s ...

BIANCULLI: Eddie Palmieri speaking to Terry Gross in 1994. The influential pianist, band leader and composer died Wednesday at the age of 88. After a break, we revisit George Clinton on the occasion ...

Eddie Palmieri died Wednesday at his home in New Jersey after a long illness, his daughter said. He was the first Latino artist to win a Grammy and earned eight total over his career. Palmieri helped ...

Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy-winning Nuyorican pianist, bandleader and composer who helped innovate Afro-Caribbean music in the States and transform the New York salsa scene, died on Wednesday. He was ...

Palmieri was born in New York’s Spanish Harlem on December 15, 1936, at a time when music was seen as a way out of the ghetto. He began studying the piano at an early age, like his famous brother ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Eddie Palmieri, the pianist, band leader and composer whose contributions to Afro Caribbean music shaped the evolving genre for decades, died Wednesday. He was ...

(AP) - Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening.