{"id":4547,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/crystal-lewis-holiday\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"crystal-lewis-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4547","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Lewis &#8211; Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/holiday.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Crystal Lewis\" border=\"0\" align=\"LEFT\"\/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  Crystal Lewis<\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  HOLIDAY! A Collection of Christmas Classics <\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">  (Metro One &#8211; 2000)<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" height=\"8\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/.gif\" width=\"4\" align=\"middle\"\/> by Paula Edelstein<\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"black\">  The lovely Crystal Lewis has released her first Christmas CD on the Metro One label and it&#8217;s a beauty. Appropriately titled HOLIDAY! A Collection of Christmas Classics, the Grammy-nominated and Dove Award-winning vocalist performs 12 jazz interpretations of seasonal favorites. Accompanied by Alan Pasqua on piano, Peter Erskine on drums, Dave Carpenter on acoustic bass and, Crystal Lewis&#8217; voice shines against the beautiful string orchestration conducted and arranged by Alan Pasqua. Crystal also co-arranged seven of the songs with Alan including &#8220;Joy To The World,&#8221; &#8220;Go Tell It On The Mountain,&#8221; and &#8220;Angels We Have Heard On High.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/CRYSTALLEWIS.jpg\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Crystal Lewis\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"\/>  Influenced by the inimitable Mahalia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin, Crystal asserts her appreciation of their musical styles through a reflection of her own spiritual and sensory representations. Her soulful nuance, sensitive phrasings, and emotional treatment on these 12 songs act as a catalyst for the members of her ensemble and together they reach a creative evolution. One of the most beautiful moments on the CD is Alan Pasqua&#8217;s  piano solo on &#8220;O Holy Night,&#8221; played in perfect balance with Crystal&#8217;s engaging vocals. The sentiment and technique artfully balanced against the opulence of the string orchestra speaks volumes about their freedom of personal expression within a self-defined program. HOLIDAY music never sounded so good!<\/font><\/p>\n<p>          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Lewis HOLIDAY! A Collection of Christmas Classics (Metro One<\/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-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","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=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}