Composer, bandleader, pianist. From the New York Times obituary: “One of his catchphrases was ‘I don’t guess I’m going to excite you with my band. I know it.’” Also from the Times: thirteen essential Palmieri recordings.
I can’t claim to have followed Eddie Palmieri’s career, but I can say that in 1974 or shortly thereafter, I bought The Sun of Latin Music, and at some point, “Nada de Ti” became my waking-up music. The Times list of Palmieri recordings describes it as “soothing.” You decide.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Eddie Palmieri (1936–2025)
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Sounds pretty exciting to me! Do we want music to be soothing? I’m not being sarcastic—I’d like to know—but soothing is not a term would apply to the stuff I love and not a reason to listen. Thanks for the link.
I can think of some music as inspiring peaceful bliss — say, the celebrated Indian recording Call of the Valley — but that seems to me much different from "soothing." Music ain't no skin cream!
That made me laugh, perhaps because of your recent post on Louis Armstrong’s birthday. I played in my head your line above in his voice for bonus humor. I agree that ‘blissful’ is not the same as soothing. There’s the savage breast/beast thing, though, so maybe lullabies are soothing. Maybe that’s why we outgrow them. I kinda want music to do more than soothe me. (I started to apologize for the preposition pile-up, but I kind of like the second sentence after all. It’s not chatbot syntax, anyway.)
I don’t know where that sentence came from. (But I know I made it up.) I think good music of any kind asks for some kind of psychic/emotional investment, which I why I can’t listen very well when I’m trying to get work done. Maybe lullabies are the original easy listening music. :)
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