Duende Libre - WEJF 2024

Tap your toes to Duende Libre, an award-winning jazz trio whose original music combines jazz virtuosity with roots rhythms from Cuba, Brazil, and the Mediterranean into a strikingly authentic blend.

Tap your toes to Duende Libre, an award-winning jazz trio whose original music draws upon the ancestral musical traditions from Cuba, Brazil, and West Africa. Each having apprenticed with direct descendants and master musicians of these traditions, they consider themselves disciples of their teachers. The result: A euphoric 21st-century jazz that honors its historical roots, pushing open the boundaries of genre to invoke a powerful sonic freedom.

“Each member’s experiences are vital as they filter West African traditional rhythms through their own hands, voices, minds, bodies, each song as much choreography as a composition,” PopMatters wrote.

“Hopeful in sound as well as in ideological foundation [the band creates music] full of heart and historical multitudes.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/38OW9fZEiNBRwQqgjrBCuw?si=rC6mQuWSQFGWWxtwQSQJgw&nd=1

Website: https://duendelibre.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/duendelibremusic/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/duendelibre/

Host or Publisher Bainbridge Island Museum of Art