Jazz Articles about Tiempo Libre

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Live Review

Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival

by R.J. DeLuke
July 12, 2022

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY June 25 and 26, 2022 From the opening strains of the Dan Wilson Trio's first song, late Saturday morning at Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, there was a vibe set. The music was bliss. Not just because of its quality (though it certainly was fine) but because it signaled the return--the real return--of the festival to its old format. The sun shone and so did ...

Album Review

Tiempo Libre: Panamericano

Read "Panamericano" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 23, 2015

Panamericano is more than the title of the fifth release from Afro-Cuban maestros Tiempo Libre (which loosely translates into “Free Time"); after more than a decade of blending and polishing musical styles from Latin, South, and North America, it's a great description of the smooth sound they've found. Each tune seems to literally dance off the music written by pianist and co-founder Jorge Gómez, who composed or co-composed every song. Recorded music doesn't sound much more bright or ...

Catching Up With

Tiempo Libre: Back in Havana

by Luellen Smiley
September 21, 2013

Sometimes an interview with a musician goes deeper than a narrative history of recordings, concert calendar and early training. That happened when I met Jorge Gómez; founder, keyboardist and musical director of Tiempo Libre, an all Cuban born Timba band. We met in a modest hotel room in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he and his six band members were invited to play for the third time at the Lensic Theater. It was steam-bath hot and muggy that Friday afternoon. ...

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Album Review

Tiempo Libre: Bach in Havana

Read "Bach in Havana" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 11, 2009

This title provides a pun on the enclosed concept, through which Tiempo Libre, led by pianist and co-producer Jorge Gomez, connects the rhythms and melodies of Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz with the venerated melodies and harmonies of Johann Sebastian Bach. “What's interesting to me is that we revere Bach for his musical genius," explains Gomez. “But the fact that he was composing works for his contemporaries as a “popular" artist while also creating deeply religious compositions, and that he was ...