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Tiempo Libre - Bach In Havana - EPK
Tiempo Libre - Tu Conga Bach (Conga)
Tiempo Libre - Tiempo Libre Bustelo Video

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04/07/2019 - The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College / Purchase, NY
04/08/2019 - The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College / Purchase, NY
04/20/2019 - Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center / Alexandria, LA
06/22/2019 - International Festival of Arts / New Haven, CT
07/10/2019 - Artown Festival / Reno, NV
10/03/2019 - Walton Arts Center / Fayetteville, AR
1 Tu Conga Bach  
2 Fuga  
3 Air on a G String  
4 Clave in C Minor  
5 Gavotte  
6 Mi Orisha  
7 Minuet in G  
8 Olas de Yemaya  
9 Baqueteo con Bajo  
10 Timbach  
11 Kyrie  
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Sony Masterworks announces the signing of two-time Grammy nominated Miami-based Cuban music group, Tiempo Libre, to an exclusive contract and will release Bach in Havana on Tuesday, May 5th. Uniting the two musical worlds of the band's Cuban childhoods, the CD connects the rhythm and sensibilities of Afro-Cuban music with the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach and features guest tracks by the Cuban legend Paquito D'Rivera and the Cuban born sax player Yosvany Terry. Multi Grammy winner Steve Epstein (Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Placido Domingo) produced the CD with Jorge Gomez as co-producer.

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  • Ahead of their Dakota show, Tiempo Libre stops by Jazz88 - Minneapolis
    Posted At: August 1, 2017 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} The 3-time Grammy nominated Cuban music group, Tiempo Libre, is normally a septet. The group's founder, Jorge Gomez, decided to create a quartet from the group for more intimate shows and so they could play smaller venues. Ahead of their upcoming show at the Dakota tonight, pianist Jorge, flutist Fabien Alvarez and percussionist Leo Gonz...
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  • Tiempo Libre set for Straz Center / Tampa Bay Times
    Posted At: March 7, 2017 12:00 AM

    As students studying classical music at a conservatory in Havana, Jorge Gomez and his friends were told by teachers that learning Afro-Cuban tunes was a waste of their talents so not to bother. Then, during the height of the Cold War, Gomez said, they were told by the Cuban government that listening to any English-language music - especially from America - was prohibited. Gomez and friends ignored both d...
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  • Tiempo Libre set for CT's Ridgefield Playhouse / The Newtown Bee
    Posted At: February 3, 2017 12:00 AM

    If the only things that come to mind when you thing about Cuba are Castro, cigars, and Mojitos, the Ridgefield Playhouse wants to introduce Newtown music lovers with a little "free time" to another Cuban export: Tiempo Libre. The diverse ensemble of childhood music academy classmates is all grown up and cooking up a spicy banquet of original arrangements for a headline set on Wednesday, February 8 at 7:3...
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  • Tiempo Libre set for CT's Ridgefield Playhouse / HamletHub
    Posted At: January 6, 2017 12:00 AM

    The Ridgefield Playhouse and Ingersoll Auto of Danbury World Music Series bring a night of seductive Latin rhythms and exhilarating jazz harmonies with worldwide sensations Tiempo Libre on Wednesday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m. The three-time Grammy-nominated Afro-Cuban music group is one of the hottest Latin bands today! They will burn down the house with their unique blend of popular Cuban music with salsa...
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  • Portland's 'Artists Rep' launches Tiempo Libre's - 'Cuba Libre'
    Posted At: October 6, 2015 12:00 AM

    Artists Repertory Theatre is proud to launch the world premiere production of the Broadway-scale new musical Cuba Libre that starts preview performances October 3, opens on October 10 and runs through November 8 at Portland'5 Winningstad Theatre, in Portland, Oregon. This epic musical is the most ambitious project Artists Rep has ever produced. With an award-winning creative team working with top-not...
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  • Tiempo Libre - Panamericano / Latin Jazz Network
    Posted At: July 23, 2015 12:00 AM

    The musical and theatrical finery of Panamericano is going to be quite the sensation in the weeks and months to come, and several years after the bucolic Bach in Havana enables Tiempo Libre to burst on the scene, this 2015 record will prove almost as successful. The reason: Tiempo Libre is building on their strengths of vocal harmony and reaching deeper into their Afro-Cuban...
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  • Tiempo Libre shares a few things about dominoes / Wall Street Journal
    Posted At: July 22, 2015 12:00 AM

    Three-time Grammy-nominated Afro-Caribbean group Tiempo Libre has recently released - Panamericano, their first album for Universal Music Latin Entertainment in partnership with Universal Music Classics. Tiempo Libre are seven classically-trained musicians internationally renown for their critically acclaimed, dance-inducing, Latin-fused music.   Band leader Jorge Gómez, shares with ...
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  • Tiempo Libre Brings Cuban Music to the World with Panamericano / Here & Now
    Posted At: July 21, 2015 12:00 AM

    The U.S. and Cuba formally reestablished diplomatic relations today. Among the American-based Cubans who have been paying close attention to the thawing between the two countries are the members of the musical group Tiempo Libre. They first met as students at Cuba's musical conservatory, Escuelas Nacionales de Arte, and when they reunited in Miami over 12 years ago, they made it their mission to brin...
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  • Tiempo Libre expands horizons with - Panamericano / Daily News
    Posted At: July 10, 2015 12:00 AM

    Tiempo Libre may have billed itself for years as the "first authentic all-Cuban timba band in the United States," but that definition is rapidly becoming obsolete. On their latest album, "Panamericano," the septet has expanded its musical scope to a pan-Latin sound. "This is our seventh album, and every record has its own history, based on where we are at the moment," says Jorge Gomez, the band's lea...
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  • Tiempo Libre - at a point that bands dream about / Miami New Times
    Posted At: July 7, 2015 12:00 AM

    Fourteen years since its formation, the Miami-based Tiempo Libre is at a point in its career that most up-and-coming bands dream about. Three Grammy nominations, worldwide recognition on stages and television, and several albums later, the group is in the midst of a promotional tour for its first release under Universal Music Latin Entertainment, Panamericano. The journey of achieving freedom and fam...
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  • Tiempo Libre's Jorge Gomez on 'Cuba Libre.' Musical which readies for U.S. debut this Fall / Fox News Latino
    Posted At: July 2, 2015 12:00 AM

    WATCH INTERVIEW WITH Jorge Gomez on Fox News Latino Here's the transcript - Cumbia. Timba. Cha cha cha. Samba. Rock'n'roll. These are the sounds of the Cuban band Tiempo Libre, whose music will be the highlight of a new musical hitting the stage later this year. "Cuba Libre," which will premiere this fall in Portland, Oregon, is the story of Cubans in the mid-1990s, when food and ...
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  • Tiempo Libre's Jorge Gomez planning a musical about growing up under Castro's dictatorship / Daily Beast
    Posted At: June 29, 2015 12:00 AM

    Jorge Gomez has always fallen afoul of the Cuban authorities-and now he's planning a musical about growing up under Castro's dictatorship. Growing up in Cuba, Jorge Gomez would sneak up to his roof with a metal coat hanger late at night and fashion it into a makeshift antenna, desperate to pick up sound waves from Miami radio stations. The fuzzy, clipped beats and melodies that crossed the ocean were unl...
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  • Tiempo Libre's Jorge Gomez goes international with 'Panamericano' / Hollywood Soapbox
    Posted At: May 21, 2015 12:00 AM

    Jorge Gómez, the founder of Afro-Caribbean group Tiempo Libre, is focusing the band's attention on a much broader audience for its new album, Panamericano, due out June 30 from Universal Music Latin Entertainment and Universal Music Classics. The music goes beyond the Cuban influences of Tiempo Libre's previous albums and emphasizes the common threads in many cultures from Latin America. ...
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  • Tiempo Libre set to play Jefferson Center / Roanoke Times
    Posted At: January 29, 2015 12:00 AM

    Growing up, the members of Tiempo Libre studied classical music in Cuban conservatories by day. By night, they played traditional Cuban music in their neighborhoods. The band members went on to leave their home country for other nations in South America and Europe. Eventually, each made his way to Miami, which is "like a second Havana," said the band's musical director and pianist, Jorge Gomez. ...
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  • 3x Grammy nominated Tiempo Libre release: 'My Secret Radio.' An intense, sophisticated mix.
    Posted At: May 3, 2011 12:00 AM

    Sony Masterworks announces the new album My Secret Radio by three-time Grammy nominated Cuban music group Tiempo Libre, available May 3, 2011. Featuring the group's signature timba music – an intense, sophisticated mix of Latin jazz and danceable Afro-Cuban rhythms – My Secret Radio conjures the seven musicians' teenage years in Havana when they secretly listened to for...
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  • Tiempo Libre unites two musical worlds into a unique mix: 'Bach in Havana'
    Posted At: May 3, 2009 12:00 AM

    Sony Masterworks announces the signing of two-time Grammy nominated Miami-based Cuban music group, Tiempo Libre, to an exclusive contract and will release Bach in Havana. Uniting the two musical worlds of the band's Cuban childhoods, the CD connects the rhythm and sensibilities of Afro-Cuban music with the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach and features guest tracks by the Cuban leg...
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