{"id":729,"date":"2007-02-24T13:37:49-05:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T18:37:49+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/24\/j-marks-the-spot\/"},"modified":"2007-02-24T13:37:49-05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T18:37:49+00:00","slug":"j-marks-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/24\/j-marks-the-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"J marks the&nbsp;spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>For those who haven&#8217;t guessed already, the reason for my excursion to Toronto was to see <a href=\"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/LenniFan\/\">Lenni Jabour<\/a>.  Had <strong>so<\/strong> much fun, but I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m allowed to say publicly about the main event.  Instead I&#8217;ll err on the side of caution and note the number of interesting people I met while I was there.  Curiously, they&#8217;re all &#8220;J&#8221;s:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Jameson (aka &#8220;J&#8221;), a music producer and recording engineer who&#8217;s worked with a number of well-known and up-and-coming acts, including several to which I&#8217;ve got only one degree of separation.  Cool guy, and a whiz (as I suppose one would expect) on both the 48-track board and Logic Pro.<\/li>\r\n<li>Jane, a Juno Award-winning, Grammy-nominated Officer of the Order of Canada.  I&#8217;ve been a fan of hers since I saw her at the Montreal International Jazz Festival several years ago, so it was cool to chat with her and listen to her play.<\/li>\r\n<li>James, an English musician who&#8217;d arrived from London five hours earlier.  He&#8217;d been flown in to play a concert the next night, based in part on the popularity one of his songs has gained by being featured on <cite class=\"title\">Smallville<\/cite>.  When someone pointed out that the piano he was tinkling away on had been played by the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscarpeterson.com\/\">Oscar Peterson<\/a>, he pulled back from the keyboard and just stared at his fingers in awe&#8230; which would&#8217;ve been my reaction too, if I&#8217;d had the nerve to touch it in the first place.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>Also had a chance to catch up very briefly with Claire J and Jo-Ann, as well as non-&#8220;J&#8221; folks like Drew, Mark, Adrean, Michel, and Dylan&#8230; and, of course, Alex, who&#8217;ll also be <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.org\/event\/145041\/\">playing with Lenni at the Heliconian<\/a> in a few days.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those who haven&#8217;t guessed already, the reason for my excursion to Toronto was to see Lenni Jabour. Had so much fun, but I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m allowed to say publicly about the main event. Instead I&#8217;ll err on the side of caution and note the number of interesting people I met while I&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}