{"id":402,"date":"2014-06-14T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T18:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.biz\/brulee-new-beginnings\/"},"modified":"2012-07-02T13:09:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T20:09:57","slug":"brulee-new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Brulee &#8211; New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2010 &#8211; Owl Productions<\/p>\n<p>Evoking the timeless composers of the past as well as contemporary tunesmiths, this is an album of tenderness, passion, juxtaposition, humor and love. Brul\u00e9e, featuring Julie Weiner&#8217;s beautiful and iconic vocals and Doug Onstad&#8217;s compositions &#038; piano interpretations, leads the listener on a musical journey of unspoken thoughts, warmth and longing from the caf\u00e9s of Paris to the expansive landscape of the American song.<\/p>\n<p>Brul\u00e9e has created a breezy and uplifting contribution, truly jazz with a twist. Weiner uses every range of her voice to engage the listener with scatting, top register flights and articulate delivery of witty lyrics. Onstad, also a contributing vocalist to this savory offering, has a familiar and inviting style; the two create a delightful journey with a cavalcade of guest artists. Each cut is accessibly smart and creatively entertaining in a convivial setting, a perfect release to brighten your day and put a skip in your step.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Weiner is a born vocalist who comes from a family of singers and musicians. Julie is also an exceptional dancer and veteran of theater, especially musical comedy, and reveals her love of lyric and melody with captivating tenderness and a heart full of soul. She has a voice that is at once technically spot on and capable of improvisation and searing emotional declaration. Julie has a nearly three octave range and a tone of crystalline clarity, yet deep, sultry resonance in her lower range.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Onstad, who has arranged all of the duo&#8217;s piano interpretations, knows how to hold the gorgeous melodies of the pair&#8217;s song book in chordal inventions that are at once classic and adventurous. Julie and Doug also perform some of Doug&#8217;s own compositions that have grown out of Doug&#8217;s love for American music: jazz, rock, classical and R&#038;B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010 &#8211; Owl Productions Evoking the timeless composers of the<\/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-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}