{"id":191926,"date":"2018-11-30T21:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=191926"},"modified":"2018-11-30T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:22:32","slug":"serena-ryder-says-christmas-album-opened-doors-to-play-jazz-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/30\/serena-ryder-says-christmas-album-opened-doors-to-play-jazz-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Ryder says Christmas album opened doors to play jazz music"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191927\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/40108245_721255714882643_2359869047710625171_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191927\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/40108245_721255714882643_2359869047710625171_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryder says the offer was impossible to refuse, partly because it gave her an opportunity to channel the spirit of Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald. (<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.fmnl6-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/vp\/e2851388a159bdd5b6f27ef8d1d565bb\/5C8DA495\/t51.2885-15\/sh0.08\/e35\/s640x640\/40108245_721255714882643_2359869047710625171_n.jpg\">File photo<\/a> by Michael Gorman via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/serenaryder\/\">@serenaryder\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8211; Serena Ryder is checking off one wish on her Christmas list \u2014 recording a jazz album.<\/p>\n<p>The Peterborough, Ont.-raised musician says she&#8217;s wanted to dabble in the genre for years, but it took acclaimed Canadian producer Bob Ezrin to make it happen on her holiday album \u201cChristmas Kisses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The veteran songmaker who&#8217;s worked with Pink Floyd, Lou Reed and the Tenors, suggested Ryder consider revisiting classics like \u201cBlue Christmas\u201d and \u201cSanta Baby\u201d with a blues twist.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder says the offer was impossible to refuse, partly because it gave her an opportunity to channel the spirit of Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p>She considers both women major influences, even though Ryder herself is better known for pop and rock music than jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder doesn&#8217;t want to stop there either.<\/p>\n<p>She hopes to record a country album at some point too, and maybe look at even broader possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>She says she&#8217;d love to be in a musical one day.<\/p>\n<p>Ryder brings her Christmas album to Halifax with two shows (Dec. 5 and 6), Charlottetown, P.E.I. (Dec. 7) and Moncton, N.B. (Dec. 8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Serena Ryder is checking off one wish on her Christmas list \u2014 recording a jazz album. The Peterborough, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-david-friend","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}