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Carina del Valle Schorske

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Eddie Palmieri’s cultural history; so interesting.👁️

Article (Carina del Valle Schorske; The New Yorker) excerpt reads: “When Eddie was around five years old, the family moved to the South Bronx. The neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Jewish, and new housing projects were beginning to attract rural migrants from the Caribbean and the American South. Isabel thought piano lessons might help keep the boys off the streets. They went to study with Margaret Bonds, a Black American classical concert musician with a studio on the top floor of Carnegie Hall. But their training wasn’t only academic: Isabel’s brother had a band called El Chino y Su Alma Tropical, and sometimes the family would go down to Harlem to record 78s.”

Article (Carina del Valle Schorske; The New Yorker) excerpt reads: “Palmieri knows how precarious life can be for many musicians: his brother Charlie died of a heart attack at sixty, and Barry Rogers died of complications from arrhythmia at fifty-five. Palmieri attributes his own longevity to ‘watercress, parsley, figs.’ But the body can’t survive without the spirit, and ‘for that,’ he told me, ‘there’s voodoo.’ He was never formally initiated into any Afro-Caribbean religions, but they suffuse his music: ceremonial drum calls, protective spells, snatches of Yoruba. He feels a particular bond with the orisha Osaín, the fugitive god of the wilderness, whose shrivelled left ear is keen enough to hear the sound of a single flower crying.”

August 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM

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Great Eddie Palmieri x NYC Read 2 | Last May, Carina del Valle Schorske @fluentmundo.bsky.social spent a week watching/listening to Palmieri at his annual Blue Note residency, profiling him from the vantage point of what would be his last year on Earth. As usual, her memoir-ish bits bring it home.