Lauréat d’une dizaine de Grammy Awards, ce grand nom de la musique latine est mort le 6 août à l’âge de 88 ans.

He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.”

A native son of the Bronx, Palmieri was a crucial innovator in New York’s Afro-Caribbean music history. The pianist, composer and bandleader has died at 88.