{"id":8405,"date":"2015-08-31T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2012-09-01T00:32:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T07:32:59","slug":"project-grand-slam-spring-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=8405","title":{"rendered":"Project Grand Slam &#8211; Spring Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The band&#8217;s new album on Cakewalk Records, Spring Dance, features nine tracks including five new tunes written by Robert Miller, plus two guest vocals by Joye Hennessey.<\/p>\n<p>Project Grand Slam (PGS) was formed in 2007. Their debut album,\u00a0<em>Play<\/em>\u00a0(Cakewalk Records 2008), featured the Top\u00a0radio hit \u201cThe Captain Of Her Heart\u201d with internationally renowned guest vocalist Judie Tzuke. In addition, PGS and five of the tracks from\u00a0<em>Play<\/em>\u00a0were featured in an episode of the hit NBC-TV series, \u201cLipstick Jungle\u201d, starring Brooke Shields.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Play<\/em>\u00a0received rave reviews and was nominated for several Grammys.<\/p>\n<p>In Nov. 2011 PGS released their new version of the classic Hollies hit, \u201c<strong>He Ain\u2019t Heavy, He\u2019s My Brother<\/strong>\u201d, with Special Guest Vocals by Joye Hennessey. The song was dedicated by the band for the benefit of the victims of child abuse, relating to the Penn State University sexual abuse scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band&#8217;s new album on Cakewalk Records, Spring Dance, features<\/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-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405","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=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8408,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}