Edsel Gomez (born August 9, 1962) is a Puerto Rican

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pianist. In 2007, he was nominated for a

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for the album ''Cubist Music''. He arranged and directed Dee Dee Bridgewater's Grammy-winning recording '' Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater''. He has worked with Jack DeJohnette,

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, Brian Lynch, and

Eddie Palmieri Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936) is an American Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician, and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is the founder of the bands La Perfecta, La Perfecta II, and Harlem River Drive. Early life Pal ...

. After a research study promoted by the Philippine Heritage Library and Ayala Museum in Manila, Philippines, he began the Edsel Gomez World Fusion Band, which explores the fusion of Philippine traditional and tribal music with jazz and Afro Caribbean music.

Discography

As leader

."Celebrating Chico Buarque De Hollanda" (Mix House, 1999) * ''América: Arismar Do Espírit O Santo'' (Lua, 2005) * ''Cubist Music'' (

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, 2006) * ''Road to Udaipur'' (Zoho Music, 2015)

As sideman

With Freddie Bryant * 1999 ''Boogaloo Brasileiro'' * 2000 ''Live at Smoke'' With David Sánchez * 1998 ''Obsession'' * 2000 ''Melaza'' * 2001 ''Travesía'' * 2004 ''Coral'' With

* 1992 '' Tuskegee Experiments'' 1995 " Music For Six Musicians" * 2001 ''You Are #6: More Music for Six Musicians'' With

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* 1999 '' Scenes from My Life'' * 2001 '' Reverence'' With Conrad Herwig * 2004 ''Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis'' * 2004 ''Que Viva Coltrane'' * 2006 ''Sketches of Spain y Mas: The Latin Side of Miles Davis'' With Humberto Ramírez * 1992 ''Jazz Project'' * 2007 ''Humberto Ramírez Presents Smooth Latin Jazz'' * 2008 ''Trompeta Tropical'' With Dee Dee Bridgewater * 2007 '' Red Earth'' * 2010 '' Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater'' * 2011 ''Midnight Sun'' With Tony Lujan * 2001 ''You Don't Know What Love Is'' * 2004 ''Tribute'' With others * 1992 ''Prodigios Delights'', Prodigio * 1994 ''Debutaste En Mi'', Jorge Escobar * 1999 '' A Day in the Life'',

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* 2001 ''Branching Out'', William Cepeda and Afrorican Jazz * 2001 ''Rite of Passage,'' Sunny Sumter * 2002 ''

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'', Kip Hanrahan * 2003 ''Let's Go to the Rumba!'', Rumbantela * 2004 ''10 Anos,'' Arismar Do Espirito Santo * 2004 ''El Hombre'',

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* 2005 ''The Color of Things'', Sandro Albert * 2006 ''A Thousand Beautiful Things'',

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* 2006 '' Simpatico'',

, Brian Lynch * 2007 ''Língua'',

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* 2007 ''Vision of Love'', Christine Capdeville * 2009 ''

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'', The Manhattan Transfer * 2015 ''East Side Rio Drive'', Nilson Matta

References

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