{"id":1271,"date":"2016-11-30T19:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T00:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2018-11-14T00:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T05:12:20","slug":"page-six-obama-approved-pianist-elew-puts-private-show-art-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Page Six &#8211; Obama-approved pianist ELEW puts on private show at Art Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Famed pianist ELEW, a favorite of <a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/tag\/barack-obama\">President Barack Obama<\/a>, played an ultra-exclusive concert for a few lucky invited guests in Miami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jazz pianist, whose real name is Eric Lewis, put on a high-energy performance in the $16 million penthouse at 1 Hotel &amp; Homes South Beach on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guests such as Sonic Youth rocker Kim Gordon and novelist Christopher Bollen were treated to a passionate private performance that included jazz versions of \u201cMr. Brightside,\u201d \u201cSweet Home Alabama\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t Nobody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELEW\u2019s energetic style of \u201crock jazz\u201d has helped him amass big-name fans including Leo DiCaprio, Donna Karan and Hugh Jackman, plus he has performed at the White House for the Obamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surrounded by works by artist Daniel Mazzone, he told the crowd, \u201cI came here to get down, I came here to party. I invite you to vibe with me, I feel all the artworks around me. Get into it. Celebrate life \u2026 I will give you my blood, that\u2019s how I feel about performing, but I don\u2019t want the blood to come too soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed pianist ELEW, a favorite of President Barack Obama, played an ultra-exclusive concert for a few lucky invited guests in Miami. The jazz pianist, whose real name is Eric Lewis, put on a high-energy performance in the $16 million penthouse at 1 Hotel &amp; Homes South Beach on Tuesday night. Guests such as Sonic Youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-press","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gettyimages-584387770-e1480551285811-1160x665.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa5nqS-kv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elewrockjazz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}