{"id":75,"date":"2006-07-04T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2016-08-19T23:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T04:06:55","slug":"starlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/75","title":{"rendered":"Starlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a pretty eventful weekend including going to bubblebattle<\/a> on Sunday, but it was a distinctly jazz-themed one. On Saturday we headed to the Reservoir Lounge<\/a> to see Tory Cassis<\/a> play as part of the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. He was kind of a last resort as I was hankering for a female vocalist. Imagine my delight when he didn’t show, and Sophia Perlman and the Vipers turned up instead. At first we thought she worked there and was helping the band set up, since she looked so young and unassuming. When she started singing however, I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. This young lady has a sultry, husky voice, and her stage presence is fun, charming and natural. We stayed for all 3 sets.<\/p>\n

On Monday, we went to see Dave Brubeck<\/a>, the legendary pianist. In his mid-eighties by now, he was funny and energetic; we had a great time. The quartet played a great rendition of Take Five, and for his solo encore he made the audience crack up by playing Brahm’s Lullaby. Thanks for getting the tickets Grace!<\/p>\n

Afterwards we headed back to the Reservoir Lounge as it was still early and it was Sophia’s regular night. Her birthday was midnight, and a gaggle of guest musicians came in and played. It was very cool seeing so many musicians cycle on and off and jam together so easily. There were some guest singers, and even though he didn’t perform (at least not while we were there), Matt Dusk<\/a> was in attendance. I think this girl is going to be big, and it’s a pleasure to watch as it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 for a female vocalist. Imagine […]<\/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-75","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\/s3ksha-starlet","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/44","url_meta":{"origin":75,"position":0},"title":"Jazz prodigy","date":"July 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I went to the Beaches Jazz festival yesterday. It was OK...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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":98,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/98","url_meta":{"origin":75,"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 "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":73,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/73","url_meta":{"origin":75,"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 "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}