A Tribute to Eddie Palmieri featuring the Purchase Latin Jazz Orchestra

Join us for a very special evening as our creative musical community comes together to honor “El Maestro” – NEA Jazz Master and ten-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri.

Renowned Latin Jazz artists – trumpeter Ray Vega, saxophonist David DeJesus, bassist Ricardo Rodriguez, and trombonist James Burton – will take the stage to celebrate “El Maestro” and pass the torch to the talented emerging artists of the Purchase Latin Jazz Orchestra – an ensemble made up of top students from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music – and the winners of the inaugural Purchase College Latin Jazz Festival. Palmieri himself will be in attendance, participating as a judge for the Purchase College Latin Jazz Festival during the day, and saying a few words during the evening concert.

A dazzling pianist whose technique incorporates bits and pieces from everyone from McCoy Tyner to Herbie Hancock and recycles them through a dynamic Latin groove, Eddie Palmieri has been a Latin jazz and salsa institution for the past 60 years.

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Presented in collaboration with the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, as part of the Purchase College Latin Jazz Festival.

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Purchase College Latin Jazz Festival
Saturday, February 10, 3:30 pm
Meet the stars of tomorrow as eight local high school bands face off in front of a panel of judges made up of music industry leaders. Festival tickets must be purchased separately.

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This engagement is supported by The Audience Building Project, a program of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Governor and New York State Legislature.

The Purchase PAC’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.