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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.