{"id":44,"date":"2005-07-24T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derrick-lee.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2016-08-19T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:07:15","slug":"jazz-prodigy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/44","title":{"rendered":"Jazz prodigy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Beaches Jazz festival yesterday.  It was OK&#8230;a bit on the hot side and there were too many people for my taste.  What saved the evening and was the highlight for me was when we ran into a young kid on the saxophone and flute, 15 year old Rob Christian: <wpg2id>947<\/wpg2id><\/p>\n<p>He was really, really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Beaches Jazz festival yesterday. It was OK&#8230;a bit on the hot side and there were too many people for my taste. What saved the evening and was the highlight for me was when we ran into a young kid on the saxophone and flute, 15 year old Rob Christian: 947 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ksha-I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/75","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":0},"title":"Starlet","date":"July 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a pretty eventful weekend including going to bubblebattle on Sunday, but it was a distinctly jazz-themed one. On Saturday we headed to the Reservoir Lounge to see Tory Cassis play as part of the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. He was kind of a last resort as I was hankering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":98,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/98","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":1},"title":"Finally, another update!","date":"July 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a while since I've posted -- I've had quite a busy last week. As part of the Toronto Jazz Festival, I went to see Dave Brubeck as the first ever Jazz act at the new Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Nice venue, great act. On Friday,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":73,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/73","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":2},"title":"Busy weekend","date":"June 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I went to the NBA 3 on 3 tournament in London this past weekend. Originally we had 4 guys heading up, but the last guy bailed on us the day before. We were put into the 6'1\"+, over 30 division (my teammates are on the wrong side of 30, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}