Angel Canales This is Me

Education

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1. 1. Lehigh Valley MusicWeb

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   Published on: 2/18/2000   Last Visited: 9/30/2000

   At the same time, Brian was playing and recording on the Latin music scene with such renowned salsa artists as Angel Canales and the great cantante Hector La Voe (1983-87). Brian, after many record dates as a sidemen, recorded his first album as a leader, Peer Pressure on the Criss Cross label in 1986. The late 80s found Brian making important and enduring association with two giants of music. In 1987, he began playing in the groups of legendary Latin master Eddie Palmieri, starting a fruitful musical relationship that until recently found Brian as Musical Director and featured member of Palmieri's Afro-Caribbean Jazz Octet.
   
   A most important and seminal experience for Brian was his tenure as trumpeter and composer/arranger in what turned out to be the final edition of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - 1988 until Art's passing in October of 1990.