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    Tiempo Libre, a Latin band from Cuba, is releasing an album in May called "Bach in Havana" that fuses together their traditional Afro-Cuban music style with works of JS Bach. The album represents the band's return to their classical roots, as all members are classically trained musicians. It will feature Latin versions of Bach's music, such as a timba version of the Badinerie from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2. The album aims to combine Bach's préludes and fugues with Latin jazz, rhumba, and other Cuban styles.

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    Tiempo Libre, a Latin band from Cuba, is releasing an album in May called "Bach in Havana" that fuses together their traditional Afro-Cuban music style with works of JS Bach. The album represents the band's return to their classical roots, as all members are classically trained musicians. It will feature Latin versions of Bach's music, such as a timba version of the Badinerie from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2. The album aims to combine Bach's préludes and fugues with Latin jazz, rhumba, and other Cuban styles.

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    Tiempo Libre, a Latin band from Cuba, is releasing an album in May called "Bach in Havana" that fuses together their traditional Afro-Cuban music style with works of JS Bach. The album represents the band's return to their classical roots, as all members are classically trained musicians. It will feature Latin versions of Bach's music, such as a timba version of the Badinerie from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2. The album aims to combine Bach's préludes and fugues with Latin jazz, rhumba, and other Cuban styles.

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    24 March 2009

    Tiempo Libre to combine Bach with Latin music

    LATIN BAND TIEMPO LIBRE IS RELEASING AN ALBUM FUSING TOGETHER ITS


    TRADITIONAL AFRO-CUBAN MUSIC STYLE WITH THE WORK OF JS BACH.

    The disc, entitled Bach in Havana and released in May, will see the group return to its classical background - all
    the members are classically trained musicians. The band's other projects have mainly focused on music from their
    native Cuba, with Latin jazz, timba and rhumba featuring among other similar traditional and Cuban styles on the
    Grammy-nominated albums Arroz con Mango and Lo Que Esperabas.

    Tiempo Libre previously returned to their classical roots in September 2008, when it worked with flautist James
    Galway on his album, O'Reilly Street. The project also included a Latin take on music from Claude Bolling's
    Suite for flute and jazz piano trio, and a timba version of Bach's Badinerie from his Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B
    minor for flute and strings, BWV 1067.

    All members of the seven-piece group studied and met at La Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA), the leading
    conservatoire in Havana, Cuba. However, it was in only in their spare time (or 'tiempo libre') that they could
    practice the traditional timba and Latin music as La ENA discouraged the style because of its Afro-Cuban roots.

    The desire to create an album of this unusual Bach and Latin combination stemmed, for band member Jorge
    Gomez, from hearing his father play the préludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier as a child.

    The album will be released through Sony Masterworks. Alex Miller, the label's general manager, commented that
    the signing of Tiempo Libre 'represents our commitment to creativity without boundaries'.

    www.tiempolibremusic.com

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