{"id":8480,"date":"2015-09-07T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=8480"},"modified":"2012-09-09T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T16:26:58","slug":"neamen-lyles-so-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=8480","title":{"rendered":"Neamen Lyles &#8211; So Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-oembed\">Neamen\u2019s debut album \u201cSo Free\u201d introduces a new voice to smooth jazz, demonstrating a remarkable freshness and maturity. Produced by Jay Soto, The CD offers ten tracks conveying a wide range of moods and musical sentiments with a confident feel from start to finish. Together Lyles and Soto have assembled a top-flight cast of contributors for this effort, all of whom give the album a sense of musical prowess seldom heard in a debut release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-oembed\"><strong>Brian Simpson<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Lorber<\/strong> provide nuanced keyboard tracks; <strong>Mel Brown<\/strong> and <strong>Ray Beindeau<\/strong> lay down electric bass lines; and <strong>Freddie Fox<\/strong> provides confident rhythm and solo guitar. Other contributors include: Anthony Morra and Rayford Griffin (drums), Darren Rahn (alto and tenor sax), Jason Rahn (trumpet &amp; flugelhorn) and Michael Broening (B3 synth). David Lancette and Jodi Light also provide smooth vocals. With a great cast of contributors, \u201cSo Free\u201d proves to establish Neamen Lyles as a new voice in the definition of smooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neamen\u2019s debut album \u201cSo Free\u201d introduces a new voice to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}