Charlie Palmieri a.k.a. "The Giant of the Blacks and Whites" (November 21, 1927-September 12, 1988) born in New York City, was a renowned Bandleader and musical director of salsa music. November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... A bandleader is the director of a band of musicians. ... The music of Puerto Rico has been influenced by African and European (especially Spanish) forms, and has become popular across the Caribbean and in some communities worldwide. ...

Palmieri's parents emigrated to New York from Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1926 and settled down in Spanish Harlem, a Hispanic ghetto located in Manhattan. As a child, Palmieri, (who was born Carlos Manuel Palmieri), taught himself to play the piano by ear. He went to school in the city's public school system but, when he was 7 years old, his father enrolled him at The Juilliard School, where he took piano lessons. By the time Palmieri was 14 years old, he found himself with his 5 year old brother, Eddie participating in many talent contests and together they won many prizes. It was at this time that his godfather introduced him to the music of the Latin bands - an experience which inspired him to become a musician. Ponce, the second largest city in Puerto Rico outside of the San Juan metropolitan area is named after the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Spanish Harlem, also known as East Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood in northeastern part of the borough of Manhattan, one of the largest predominantly Hispanic communities in New York City. ... Hispanic, as used in the United States, is one of several terms used to categorize U.S. immigrants for whose background hail either from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America or the original settlers of the traditionally Spanish-held Southwestern United States. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ... Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ... Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936 in New York City) is a pianist and renowned bandleader. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia Science of Music... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...

In 1943, when still only 16 years old and still in high school, he made his professional debut as a piano player for the Osario Selasie Band. He graduated from High School in 1946, and immediately went to play for various bands. He made his recording debut with the song "Se Va La Rumba" as a member of the Rafael Muñiz Band. 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

In October 1947, Tito Puente, the musical director of the Fernando Alvarez Band, was impressed with Palmieri and hired him to play for his band at the Copacabana Club; here he played with Tito until 1953 and during the 1950s he played with various bands. Besides having played with Tito Puente, he played with Pupi Campo's Band and worked on Jack Parr's CBS daytime television show. Palmieri also formed a couple of bands which performed at the Palladum Ballroom - these were however shortlived because of a lack of work. During this time, he also worked as an accompanist for other bands. October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tito Puente (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000) was an influential Latin jazz and mambo musician. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918–January 27, 2004) was an American radio and television talk show host. ... CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States. ...

Palmieri worked for several years in Chicago, but returned to New York and formed a band called "Charanga La Duboney". While performing at the Monte Carlo Ballroom, Palmieri heard a young man by the name of Johnny Pacheco playing the flute - the playing so impressed him that he hired him on the spot. The mixture of Pacheco's flute with the strings of the violins in Palmieri's band led to the 1960s Charanga craze in the United States. Palmieri was signed by the United Artists Record company and had several Latino hits. Palmieri did however suffer various setbacks - first Pacheco left the band and then United Artists cancelled his contract because of a conflict of interest with their other recording star, Tito Rodriguez. This lead to Palmeiri's signing with the Algre Record label and with whom he had two best selling "hits" with "Como Bailan La Pachanga" and "La Pachanga Se Baila Asi". Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... This article is about the musical instrument. ... The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... A charanga is a Cuban orchestra composed of piano, strings, vocals, flute and Cuban musical style characterized by this kind of orchestration. ... United Artists Records was founded by United Artists soon after its own founding in 1919 to distribute soundtracks from its movies. ... In the United States of America, Latinos refer to the people other than African-Americans, Anglo-Americans, Arab-Americans, Asian-Americans,Irish-Americans, Native-Americans, Sccotish-Americans and Slav-Americans, who reside in the United States and are of European background, typically Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, who are speaker... Tito Rodriguez a. ...

When the Charanga craze declined in popularity, Palmieri switched to the new trend, the Boogaloo, by replacing the flute and violins with three trumpets and two trombones, he also dropped the word "Charanga" from his bands name and it became knowned simply as "La Duboney". In 1965, he scored a hit with "Tengo Maquina y Voy a 60" (Going like 60) and in 1967 with "Hay Que Estar En Algo/Either You Have It or You Don't". In 1968, Palmieri recorded "Latin Bugalu" under the Atlantic Records label, which was also released in the United Kingdom. Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. ... The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register, above the tuba, euphonium, trombone, sousaphone, and french horn. ... A lip-reed aerophone with a predominantly cylindrical bore, the trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is a record label founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. ...

In the 1970s, Palmieri worked as the musical director for Tito Puente's television show "El Mundo de Tito Puente" (Tito Puente's World). He also taught and lectured about latin music and culture at various educational institutions. After reorganizing his band, Palmieri played the organ and recorded "La Hija de Lola" (Lola's daughter) and "La Vecina" (The neighbor). In 1971, he provided his organ playing talents to some of his brother's recordings. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... The Casavant pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Montreal The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the western musical tradition, with a rich history connected with the Christian religion and civic ceremony. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...

Among the artists which Palmieri worked with were:

• His brother Eddie,
• Celia Cruz,
• Tito Puente,
• Rafael Cortijo,
• Herbie Mann,
• Ismael Rivera,
• Rafael Cortijo,
• Ismael Quintana,
• Bobby Capo,
• Mongo Santamaria and
• Ray Barretto.

In 1980, Palmieri moved back to Puerto Rico but, returned to New York for business - on one trip there he suffered a massive heart attack and stroke. He soon recovered and returned to the music world as the member of various bands. On June 1998, he debuted in the United Kingdom accompanied by London's Robin "King Salsa" Jones. Celia Cruz Celia Cruz (Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso) (October 21, 19241 – July 16, 2003) was a Cuban salsa singer who spent most of her career living and working in the United States. ... Rafael Cortijo (January 11, 1928- October 3, 1982), was a Puerto Rican musician, orquestra leader and composer. ... Ismael Rivera a. ... Rafael Cortijo (January 11, 1928- October 3, 1982), was a Puerto Rican musician, orquestra leader and composer. ... Ismael Quintana (born July 3, 1937 in Ponce, Puerto Rico), is a renowned singer and composer of salsa music. ... Felix Manuel Rodriguez Capo (January 1, 1922_December 18, 1989), better known as Bobby Capo, was an internationally known Puerto Rico. ... Ray Barretto a. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

On September 12, 1988, Charlie Palmieri suffered another heart attack upon his arrival at New York where as the musical director of the Joe Cuba Sextet he was to arranage a concert. He died later that day at the Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx. Joe Cuba (born Jose Calderon (1931) in New York City) is a Puerto Rican musician considered by many to be the Father of Latin Boogaloo. Cubas parents immigrated from Puerto Rico in the late 1920s and settled down in Spanish Harlem, a Hispanic ghetto located in Manhattan. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ...

On November 6, 2004, a Big Band Tribute to Charlie Palmieri was held at the Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts holds a competetion every year for the Charlie Palmieri Memorial Piano Scholarship. The winner of the competetion receives a full year of free piano lessons of Latin music. The scholarship was started by Palmieri's lifetime friend, the late Tito Puente. November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 15 acre (61,000 m²) complex of buildings in New York City which serves as home for 12 arts companies. ...

See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans