{"id":194,"date":"2010-07-06T03:08:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T03:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/raves\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-07-06T03:08:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T03:08:43","slug":"nnenna-freelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/nnenna-freelon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nnenna Freelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreamsmanifest.com\/TheJazzPage\/tjp360\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/nfreelon_homefree1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 130%;\"><strong>Homefree<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">(Concord Records)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 130%;\"><br \/>\nFor her\u00a0latest release,\u00a0<strong><em>Homefree<\/em><\/strong>, Nnenna Freelon\u00a0decided to stay at home, recording the project at Sound Pure Studios in\u00a0Durham, North Carolina,\u00a0where she&#8217;s lived\u00a0for the past 28 years. What has not changed\u00a0is the way in which the singer enchants the listener with\u00a0her captivating voice and equally engrossing arrangements of standards from jazz to pop, and even gospel. Freelon is aided wonderfully in this regard, by the talents of pianist Brandon McCune, drummer Kinyah Ayah, bassist Wayne Batchelor, percusionist Beverly Botsford, guitarist\u00a0Scott Sawyer,\u00a0as well as\u00a0her son, Pierce Freelon, on one track.\u00a0As with\u00a0most of her past efforts, Nnenna Freelon is captivating from the very first note to the very\u00a0last.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;\">Click here to listen to a clip of <a onclick=\"playSound('http:\/\/www.dreamsmanifest.com\/TheJazzPage\/tjp360\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/nfreelon_lamp_low1.mp3');\" href=\"#\">&#8220;The Lamp Is Low&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tracks: The Lamp Is Low, I Feel Pretty, The Very Thought of You, Theme from Valley of The Dolls, Smile, You and The Night and The Music, Cell Phone Blues, Get Out of Town, Skylark, Lift Every Voice and Sing, America the Beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homefree (Concord Records) For her\u00a0latest release,\u00a0Homefree, Nnenna Freelon\u00a0decided to stay at home, recording the project at Sound Pure Studios in\u00a0Durham, North Carolina,\u00a0where she&#8217;s lived\u00a0for the past 28 years. What has not changed\u00a0is the way in which the singer enchants the listener with\u00a0her captivating voice and equally engrossing arrangements of standards from jazz to pop, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,1],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-11 01:11:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejazzpage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}