{"id":244,"date":"2003-11-15T20:34:48","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T02:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lillilewis.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=244"},"modified":"2003-11-15T20:34:48","modified_gmt":"2003-11-16T02:34:48","slug":"the-coming-of-john-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/discography\/the-coming-of-john-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming of John (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/lillilewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/images.cdbaby.name\/l\/i\/lillilewis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>&#8220;With a sultry voice as smooth as melted butter, Lilli Lewis croons a lush blend of jazz and R&amp;B sensibilities, backed by utterly masterful instrumentation. Sometimes melancholy and always deeply mature, the music&#8230;will move you on multiple levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ampcast.com<\/p>\n<p>Lilli Lewis comes from the famously enigmatic Athens, Georgia where she studied classical piano and voice. An &#8220;innovative, soulful&#8221; singer and composer, Lewis writes with elegant poise in a style where Gabriel Faur\u00e9 meets Pharoah Sanders. As she sings, her versatile voice shows itself in one moment a pure and longing stratospheric pianissimo, the next a low and earthy rumble. Lilli dances across her broad vocal and musical range with arresting beauty and ease.<\/p>\n<p>Her band, The Lilli Lewis Project, which features Lewis on piano and vocals, is augmented by award winning clarinetist and composer Todd Brunel who unfailingly presents &#8220;tremendous virtuosity and heart&#8221; (Eileen Pfeiffer, Boston Globe). A veteran of the Montreal Jazz and Aspen Music Festivals, Brunel plays with breathtaking energy paired with an intimately nuanced lyricism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pianist, composer and awe inspiring singer that merges classical, negro spiritual and soul musics. Her original songs are vocal tour de forces&#8230;&#8221; Boston Fielder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-coming-of-john\/id30859479?uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\" style=\"display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;background:url(https:\/\/linkmaker.itunes.apple.com\/htmlResources\/assets\/en_us\/\/images\/web\/linkmaker\/badge_itunes-lrg.png) no-repeat;width:110px;height:40px;@media only screen{background-image:url(https:\/\/linkmaker.itunes.apple.com\/htmlResources\/assets\/en_us\/\/images\/web\/linkmaker\/badge_itunes-lrg.svg);}\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With a sultry voice as smooth as melted butter, Lilli Lewis croons a lush blend of jazz and R&amp;B sensibilities, backed by utterly masterful instrumentation. Sometimes melancholy and always deeply mature, the music&#8230;will move you on multiple levels.&#8221; Ampcast.com Lilli Lewis comes from the famously enigmatic Athens, Georgia where she studied classical piano and voice. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discography","tag-mark-nathanson","tag-todd-brunel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}