Unfinished Masterpiece
by Eddie Palmieri
- Type: Album
- Released: 1965
- Label: Tico, Coco
- Country: United States
- Length: 38:24
- Community rating: 4.56/5 from 8 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Unfinished Masterpiece' captures Eddie Palmieri鈥檚 expansive and experimental approach to salsa, driven by his exploratory piano, incendiary brass arrangements, and the introduction of powerhouse vocalist Lalo Rodr铆guez. The album's title reflects a dispute with the record label, which released it without the pianist's final approval. Despite the controversy, the recording's musical prowess, featuring complex instrumental passages and standout tracks like "脫yelo Que Te Conviene," earned it the 1976 Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording.
Genres
Descriptors: Spanish language, piano, rhythmic, percussive, virtuosic
Tracklist
- Un Puesto Vacante (04:01)
- Kinkamache (05:42)
- Oyelo Que Te Conviene (06:35)
- Cobarde (10:53)
- Random Thoughts (06:21)
- Resemblance (04:52)
Credits
- Eddie Palmieri - piano, leader, arrangement, theories and structure
- Lalo Rodriguez - lead vocal, lead vocals
- Victor Paz - trumpet, trumpets
- Barry Rogers - trombone, tenor tuba, trombones, bombardino, arrangement on "cobarde"
- Peter Gordon - french horn
- Tony Price - tuba
- Lou Marini - alto sax, alto saxophone
- Lou Orenstein - tenor sax, tenor saxophone
- Mario Rivera - tenor and baritone saxes, baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Ronnie Cuber - baritone sax, soprano sax & flute, baritone sax, flute, baritone solo, baritone saxophone
- Alfredo de la Fe - violin
- Andy Gonzalez - bass
- Tommy Lopez Jr. - bongos, bongo
- Eladio Perez - congas
- Jerry Gonzalez - congas, congas on "cobarde"
- Nicky Marrero - timbales, timbales & percussion
- Ismael Quintana - backing vocals, coro, percussion [coro]
- Jimmy Sabater - backing vocals, coro, percussion [coro]
- Willie Torres - backing vocals, coro, percussion [coro]
- Polito Huerta - bass
- Eddie "Gua-Gua" Rivera - bass
- Bobby Porceli - alto sax
- Harry Viggiano - electric guitar
- Mike Lawrence - flugelhorn, fliscorno en el track 06, soloist, flugelhorn
- Jeremy Steig - flute, flute solo, soloist, flute
- Ed Bryne - trombone
- Lynn Welshman - trombone
- Eddie Martinez - electric piano, arrangement on "resemblance", electric piano, arranged by
- Ron Carter - bass, acoustic bass
- Steve Gadd - drums
- Rene Hernandez - arranged by, arrangements
- Harvey Averne - producer
- Ely Besalel - design, design concept [cover], photography by [liner, cover]
- Irv Greenbaum - engineer
- Al Brown - lacquer cut by, mastered by
- Dominique - photography [liner]