Freedom (Trey Eley & Matthew Shell album)

Freedom is an instrumental jazz album which was a collaboration between flautist Trey Eley and producer Matthew Shell. 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.^[1] Another track "Beauty in Freedom", inspired Grammy nominated artist, Carolyn Malachi^[2] to write her song Beautiful Dreamer.^[3] The album was also featured as one of Generation bass' Top album of 2012.^[4] The video reinterpretation of the Michael Jackson track, "Rock with you" featuring Kenny Wesley was shot and edited by Jason Baustin, of Travestee Films.^[5] The music video for "Juice"^[6] features the dancer Atomic Goofball, who also performed in So You Think You Can Dance and the film Step Up 3.

Freedom
Studio album by Trey Eley & Matthew Shell
Recorded	2012
Genre	Jazz, crossover jazz
Length	48:47
Label	Working Notion Entertainment

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
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

Personnel

Following are the credits for all the personnel involved:^[7]

• 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^[8] - 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

• Kenny Wesley

References

1. "Freedom - Grammy.com exclusive first listen".
2. "Official website of Carolyn Malachi".
3. "Generation Bass article on Beautiful Dreamer".
4. "Generation Bass - Top of 2012".
5. "Rock With You - Kenny Wesley ft Trey Eley on Flute".
6. "Juice by Trey Eley and Matthew Shell".
7. "Freedom Credits on Allmusic.com".
8. "Official Website of Cristina Botnari".

External links

• "Freedom - album". iTunes.
• "Freedom - album". Cdbaby.
• "Freedom - album". Amazon.