Ceramic Dreams: Jazz

Duke Ellington was a great composer, arranger, pianist and other great things. He composed many jazz pieces which is the foundation of jazz today.

Today we went to see a jazz tribute to Duke Ellington at Dewan Filharmonik Petronas.

Which means--> Dressing up

Dressing up means I have to wear a dress, which is something I haven't done in years, stockings and high heels.

Here's a few things I found out:

1) Some (most) dresses restrict movement of the legs, resulting one to be unable to stride, run, kick, jump over drains, and get into cars. This resulted in 2 awkward moments which I had to sit on the edge of the car seat and literally lie into the car. Smooth.

2) Always make sure your stockings cover up your FEET if you are wearing high heels. Not like mine which only covered 1/2 of my foot and leaving my heel bared. When high heels came on it looked like.....well like my stockings had a huge hole at my heel. Which is a big no-no. And it's good to find this out when you are still in the house, with changeable stockings, instead of in the car 2 km from home, which means you are pretty much screwed.

3)NEVER let it show on your face that your heels are KILLING you. I'm pleased to say that I have learnt this particular rule from sis & mum and I didn't commit said crime. Due to point 2) I had bare feet in my high heels instead of stockinged feet ( I rolled up the ends of the stockings to prevent a major fashion fax paus >< )and the entire night was just the walk of hell...But as the saying goes, women suffer to be beautiful! =)

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Anyways...

The jazz quartet consisted of a pianist, trombonist,drummer and bassist. There were a few gust performers : 2 alto saxophones, a female vocalist, and a tuba.

Overall it was a great performance...if you enjoy jazz =)

The show started at 6:30pm and ended at 8pm. The song titles I remembered were: Sophisticated Lady, Cocktail, In a Sentimental Mood, Boy Meets Tuba, and Squeeze Me, But Please Don't Tease Me, (yes, that IS a song title! XD)

The songs were nice and the musicians were brilliant, I really enjoyed myself at the show =)

Hope there will be more jazz performances soon! =D