Our picks include Lifetime Achievement Latin Grammy Award-winner Poncho Sanchez, top Danish jazz singer Sinne Eeg, with Encinitas guitarist Peter Sprague, and a benefit for Jamie Shadowlight with Shamini Jain, Monette Marino and the Roni Lee Group
Some of our other favorite performances of the year were by the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Etienne Charles, Samara Joy, Don Bryon and former SDSU football scholarship-winner Gregory Porter