by G. Jack Urso
From Hot Hero Sandwich Central.
The Palmieri
Brothers’ performance in episode 8 is an extraordinary display of musical virtuosity,
yet due to the fact I don’t speak Spanish, and the Palmieri’s extensive musical
catalog, I was unable to identify the song. Nevertheless, I posted it, thinking
that I’ll eventually discover the song title, but much to my embarrassment, I
never was able to do so.
Finally, I reached
out to Hot Hero’s resident Jazz
expert, Michael
Longfield (aka, actor L. Michael
Craig on the show), who hosts a weekly Jazz show on WWOZ 90.7 FM in New
Orleans. This one was a challenge even for him, so Mike reached out to trombonist
friend Charlie Garcia who revealed that rather than a song, the performance is
a jam session, or perhaps more accurately described as a “descarga,” a Cuban form
of the jam session, which, according to The
Oxford English Dictionary, improvises son montuno, “a form featuring an
extended passage of musical call and response over a flowing rhythm produced by
a combination of percussion instruments.”
In the performance
one can hear the chorus, or coro, “es para ti,” meaning “it’s for you.” Despite the complicated rhythms, this is still essentially a jam session, and it all comes
off like clockwork. Hot Hero Sandwich’s
Felix Pappalardi, clad in an open-neck blue shirt, can be seen on stage clapping
and singing along with the brothers, and evidently having a great time.
Special thanks
to Michael Longfield and Charlie Garcia for helping solve this mystery!
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