The renowned pianist and composer won eight Grammy Awards and helped shape the sound of Latin jazz, salsa and rumba.

Palmieri, who was viewed as a pioneer of New York City's Latin jazz scene, passed away after "an extended illness." ...

The award-winning pianist, bandleader and composer was influential in the New York salsa scene and won the first Grammy in a ...

Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was ...

The pianist, composer and bandleader was the first Latino to win a Grammy Award and would win seven more over a career that ...

Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was ...

Eddie Palmieri, the renowned pianist and Latin music pioneer who founded groups like La Perfecta and Harlem River Drive, has ...

Eddie Palmieri, the Harlem-born, Grammy-winning pianist and composer who revolutionized Latin music with his incorporation of ...

Eddie Palmieri in performance in the early 1960s. From the moment he founded his first steady band in 1961, he drove many of the stylistic shifts and creative leaps in Latin music. Tom Copi ...

A native son of the Bronx, Palmieri was a crucial innovator in New York’s Afro-Caribbean music history. The pianist, composer and bandleader has died at 88.

Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy-winning bandleader and pianist whose percussive playing helped revolutionize Latin jazz and salsa, ...