"I go, whoa. This is cool. I love this,"
"I was thinking to myself, man, I think the kids would really like playing this stuff."
"I had to do all the transcribing myself from records I used to listen to,"
Eddie Palmieri died last month, and his music endures through recordings and published sheet music. Steve Alcala, a Central Valley music teacher and trumpet player from Madera, discovered Palmieri in the 1980s and believed students would enjoy playing Latin jazz. Pioneering Latin jazz performers rarely shared arrangements beyond their bands, creating a shortage of available sheet music for schools and musicians outside major jazz scenes. Alcala founded a sheet music publishing company, transcribed arrangements note by note from records for multiple instruments, and corresponded with leading performers to obtain and prepare charts for his students. The publisher now helps make Palmieri's and other Latin jazz works widely available.
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