{"id":107,"date":"2007-04-24T20:01:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=107"},"modified":"2007-04-24T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T03:01:40","slug":"jazz-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\">April 24, 2007<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\">The Boyfriend (TB) and I went to <a title=\"Dimitriou's Jazz Alley (Seattle)\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jazzalley.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dimitriou&#8217;s Jazz Alley<\/strong><\/a> tonight to see and hear <a title=\"PineTop Perkins\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinetopperkins.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PineTop Perkins<\/strong><\/a>, a legendary <strong>blues<\/strong> musician. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\">Surprisingly, at my age (41) and with as long as I&#8217;ve lived in Seattle (15 years), I&#8217;ve never been to Jazz Alley before.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\">The entrance to Jazz Alley is, in fact, in an alley which is framed by some cool murals.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\">[album:247,4:c]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\">The interior is sophisticated, yet comfortable. Walls painted in muted colors, showcasing paintings of music greats. Ceiling-to-floor curtains covering the street-facing windows. The club has a small, adequate selection of wines and cocktails plus a dinner menu that includes a couple of vegetarian and vegan choices. TB and I dined elsewhere but did partake of a couple of drinks each at the club. I had some wine. TB had two cocktails featuring watermelon liqueur\u2014they tasted kind of like <a title=\"Slurpee\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slurpee\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Slurpees<\/strong><\/a> with a kick.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"2\">I&#8217;ll post pictures of Jazz Alley&#8217;s interior and the musicians who performed tonight if: <strike>1) I can find my USB cable to connect my cell phone camera to my computer;<\/strike> [done] 2) <strike>I can figure out how to transfer photos from my phone to my computer<\/strike> [done]  I can transfer photos from my phone to my laptop <em>without the connection dropping<\/em>; and 3) any of the pictures are worth posting. (The camera on my cell phone is &#8230; well, not state-of-the-art.)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 24, 2007 The Boyfriend (TB) and I went to Dimitriou&#8217;s Jazz Alley tonight to see and hear PineTop Perkins, a legendary blues musician. Surprisingly, at my age (41) and with as long as I&#8217;ve lived in Seattle (15 years), I&#8217;ve never been to Jazz Alley before. The entrance to Jazz Alley is, in fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-seattle-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}