Freedom (Trey Eley & Matthew Shell album)
Freedom | |
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Studio album by Trey Eley & Matthew Shell | |
Recorded | 2012 |
Genre | Jazz, Crossover Jazz |
Length | 48:47 |
Label | Working Notion Entertainment |
Freedom[1][2][3] is an instrumental jazz album which was a collaboration between flautist Trey Eley [4] and Producer Matthew Shell.[5] It was released on August 30, 2012. The track from the album, Twilight, featuring Grammy nominated trumpet player Greg Adams was featured on Grammy.com as an Exclusive First listen.[6] Another track "Beauty in Freedom", inspired Grammy nominated artist, Carolyn Malachi [7] to write her song Beautiful Dreamer.[8] The album was also featured as one of Generation bass' Top album of 2012.[9] The video reinterpretation of the Michael Jackson track, "Rock with you" featuring Kenny Wesley was shot and edited by Jason Baustin, of Travestee Films.[10] The music video for "Juice" [11] features the dancer Atomic Goofball, who also performed in So You Think You Can Dance and the film Step Up 3.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Beauty in Freedom" | Matthew Shell, Darrick Atwater | Matthew Shell, Darick Atwater | 10:07 |
2. | "Juice (feat. G.P. Jackson)" | Matthew Shell | Matthew Shell | 2:59 |
3. | "Twilight (feat. Greg Adams)" | Matthew Shell | Matthew Shell | 3:49 |
4. | "Faces of Change" | Matthew Shell | Matthew Shell | 3:56 |
5. | "5.8" | Trey Eley | Trey Eley | 5:50 |
6. | "Alright Now (feat. Marcus Mitchell)" | Matthew Shell, Marcus Singleton | Matthew Shell, Marcus Singleton | 3:37 |
7. | "Hidden Within" | Matthew Shell | Matthew Shell, Jonathan Quigley | 2:15 |
8. | "Rich Mahogany" | Matthew Shell | Matthew Shell | 3:13 |
9. | "Coming To You" | Marcus Singleton, Matthew Shell | Matthew Shell | 5:17 |
10. | "Thinking About You" | Matthew Shell, Rob Mercer | Matthew Shell | 3:28 |
11. | "Rock With You (feat. Kenny Wesley)" | Rod Temperton | Matthew Shell, Trey Eley | 4:16 |
Production and Personnel
Following are the credits for all the personnel involved [12]
- Trey Eley - Primary Artist, Composer, Flute, Alto Flute, Wind Synthesizer
- Matthew Shell - Primary Artist, Composer, Engineer, Arranger, Producer, Guitars, Drums, Additional instrumentation
- Vahagn Stepanyan - Piano
- Devin Spear - Electric Guitar on "Beauty in Freedom"
- Darrick Atwater - Producer, Engineer, Mix assistance, Additional Arrangement
- Markus Huber - Bass on "Beauty in Freedom", ""Faces of Change", "Hidden Within", "Rock with You"
- Mike Gamble - Bass on "Twilight"
- Mr.Turner - Bass on "Juice", "5.8"
- Jabari Exum - Djembe on "Beauty in Freedom"
- Kolten Perine - Keyboard, synthesizers on "Faces of Change"
- Cristina Botnari [13] - Violin on "Twilight"
- Marcus Singleton - Producer, Additional instrumentation, Synthesizers, Arrangement on "Coming to you"
- Jonathan Quigley - Producer, Beatbox, Additional Arrangement on "Hidden Within"
- Rob Mercer - Vocals on "Thinking about you"
- Kenny Wesley - Vocals, Vocal Arrangement on "Rock with you"
- David Joubert - Keyboard on "Rock with you"
- Greg Adams - Trumpet on "Twilight"
- G.P. Jackson - Vocals on "Juice"
- Marcus Mitchell - Saxophone on "Alright Now"
See also
- Matthew Shell
- Kenny Wesley
References
- ↑ "Freedom - album". iTunes.
- ↑ "Freedom - album". Cdbaby.
- ↑ "Freedom - album". Amazon.
- ↑ "Official website of Trey Eley".
- ↑ "Artist Profile of Matthew Shell".
- ↑ "Freedom - Grammy.com exclusive first listen".
- ↑ "Official website of Carolyn Malachi".
- ↑ "Generation Bass article on Beautiful Dreamer".
- ↑ "Generation Bass - Top of 2012".
- ↑ "Rock With You - Kenny Wesley ft Trey Eley on Flute".
- ↑ "Juice by Trey Eley and Matthew Shell".
- ↑ "Freedom Credits on Allmusic.com".
- ↑ "Official Website of Cristina Botnari".