Classic Shots: Rhythm & Ribs Past

Alas, I will not be at this year’s Rhythm and Ribs Festival, next Saturday, October 9th, 11 to 11 behind the American Jazz Museum complex. A wedding in the family takes priority. So everyone else out there, I’m counting on you to attend and let me know how it goes.

This also means I will have no photos from the fest to later post. So, instead, today I offer shots I’ve snapped from Rhythm and Ribs past, of some of the terrific headliners Kansas City has had the delight to hear.

As always, clicking on a photo should open a larger version of it.

Pat Metheny, 2007. Note the guitar.

Lonnie Smith, 2007

Christian McBride, 2007

Shemekia Copeland, 2006

Al Jarreau, 2007

 

George Benson, 2007

 

James Cotton, 2007

Al Green, 2006

Lonnie Smith, 2007

Al Jarreau and George Benson, 2007

Pat Metheny, 2007

Koko Taylor, 2005