Eddie Palmieri - Chocolate Ice Cream - Music Video

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DEP ALFREDO "CHOCOLATE" ARMENTEROS

DESCARGA PALMIERI Cool Style!
Chocolate Ice Cream never tasted so good!
Eddie masterful early jazz stylings..
Listen Alfred 'Chocolate' Armenteros hypnotic trumpet
playing and the musical stylings of Nicky Marrero..
LOBITO PRESENTS (of course!).
A TRIBUTE VIDEO....
Eddie Palmieri was making us dance in the 1960s.
But by the 1970s, he also was making us think
about the world and the music around us.
Although the boogalu was still hot with Joe Cuba and
Influenced by the traditional style of Cuban tres player
Arsenio Rodríguez's pianist, (Lilí Martínez),
Palmieri's version of "Pa' Huele" mixes roots
with modern rhythms with el hombre de la barba picking
out Mary Had a Little Lamb in this son montuno.
A strong trumpet solo by Alfredo Chocolate Armenteros
highlights this song, which is sung by Ismael Pat Quintana.
Palmieri's version of Rudy Calzado's "La Malanga" picks up
the original pace, pumps up the volume
with some strong brass lines, while boiling the blood with
the coals from his fiery rhythm section.
While "Bilongo" was already a hit from Cuba's past,
Palmieri did it again, this time making the tune
so much his own that this version freely flows with
solos and freewheeling superimpositions over the
folkloric matrix. What is truly evident here is how
Palmieri creates a level playing field for his musicians
to shine. Cuban trumpeter Armenteros
takes an historic solo here unmatched in length to any he
has performed before. Accompanied
by the trombone counterpoint (better known by musicians
as a moña), Brazilian José Rodríguez,
Palmieri's "Bilongo" becomes the Latin music standard by
which others are measured even today.
Hearing the nascent strains for the future tune Adoración on
"Que Lindo Eso, Eh!," Palmieri leans
back, giving musicians room to groove while throwing in
a pinch of avant garde feel with sound effects
during the percussion and a bowed bass bottom to its
percussive layers.
"Chocolate Ice Cream" starts as a laid back cha cha cha.
Written by both trumpeter and pianist,
Palmieri and Armenteros extend their range of
Latin jazz modalities onto the Afro-Cuban rhythms.
Palmieri's studies with guitarist Bob Bianco, which he
started when he was already recording Justicia,
are heightened, reaching a high point in the following
"17.1" number.
The opening of "17.1" features Afro-Cuban rhythms
beneath Palmieri's dissonant piano chord comping.
Bassist Andy González makes his debut with Palmieri
on this recording where he was brought into
the mix by a 19-year-old Nicky Marrero. The 17-year-old
Eladio Pérez was on congas with a young
and tender 13-year-old Chucky López on bongo.
In his highly creative and cerebral fashion,
Palmieri came up with the title of the tune by
tadding up heir ages and then dividing that by three.
"Superimposition" becomes the showpiece for Eddie
Palmieri's unusual style, experimental work
and musical concepts. Just look at the cover art
of "Superimposition" and you're reminded of the
psychedelic paintings of Peter Maxx, an artist who
changed the landscape of visual arts in America
during the 1970s. .
Here Palmieri displays his studies into Schillinger's
musical theories while his choice of notes,
clave counterpoint, jazz harmonics and modalities,
along with the incredibly full and fascinating dance numbers
and changing the landscape of Latin dance music
which makes
Eddie Palmieri the master of yesterday...today ..and the
distant future!

Credits:
Eddie Palmieri -- Piano, Leader
Ismael Quintana - Lead Vocal
Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros -- Trumpet
Nicky Marrero -- Timbales, Percussion Effect
("Chocolate Ice Cream", "Que Lindo Eso, Eh!")
Jose Rodríguez -- Trombone
Lewis C. Kahn -- Trombone
Eladio Pérez -- Conga
Tommy "Choki" López -- Bongo
Israel "Izzy" Feliu -- Bass
Andy González -- Bass
Roberto Franquiz -- Bell
Rudy Calzado -- Percussion Chorus --
Arturo Campa, Justo Betancourt, Elliot Romero

Invited Guest :
Manny Oquendo -- Percussion, Timbales, Bongo
Producer, Coordinator-- Miguel Estivill
Engineer -- Fred Weinberg (A & R Studios)
Original Album Design and Illustrations -- Ely Besalel
Written by Aurora Flores