The 48th New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and sophomore KAABOO in Del Mar provided an abundance of captures for this year ‘s 10 best, with the balance filled out by more personal moments in smaller rooms, best experienced just a few feet away.
The spirit of Jazz Fest from the back of the track
Sharon Jones will always be a bad ass in sequins and fringe, another blow in a year of huge musical losses
Efrem Towns of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band using his big lungs at Jazz Fest
84-year old Daniel Weenie Farrow from the Press Hall Brass in the Economy Hall Tent at Jazz Fest
Mr. Neil Young and Promise of the Real played through a deluge at Jazz Fest, an epic 8 tune, 140 minute set
Soul bluesman Eric Lindell at The Mint in September
St. Paul Janeway and dem Broken Bones at KAABOO pretty much killed it
Aerosmith and Steve Tyler were back in the saddle at KAABOO, the band’s only date of the year
Best of roots, Jason Isbell’s KAABOO set was a highlight
The hands and strings of famed Meters bassist George Porter at The Mint in October
