For me, 2017 was mostly about music. Here are some concert highlights from hip-hop and jazz greats (Yasiin Bey, Q-Tip, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone, Jason Moran and Kenny Barron, and Ron Carter) to rock and pop royalty (Aimee Mann, Gillian Welch, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lisa Fischer, Sting, and Seu Jorge).

The 2016 Rainforest Benefit brought in the holidays with Sting, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Darlene Love and More! Here’s the play by play.

Music ruled in 2016: I saw Belly, a David Bowie tribute, Duran Duran with Nile Rodgers and Chic, Go-Gos, Sting and Peter Gabriel, Esperanza Spalding, Jason Moran and Charles Lloyd, Buster Williams, Lucy Wainwright Roche and Suzzy Roche with Patty Larkin, Yasiin Bey, a George Gershwin concert and a House of Cards concert. Phew! Here’s how good they all were.

In 2015, music filled the air. Here are my reviews for Roy Ayers, Jason Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Ginger Baker, Terence Blanchard, Justin Kauflin, Roy Hargrove, Min Xiao-Fen, Kendrick Lamar, Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer, and Jody Watley and Shalamar Reloaded.

Learn about my dad’s favorite jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, a one-of-a-kind musician whose centennial was celebrated by The Kennedy Center last March.

This concert, a celebration of Danny Elfman’s music for Tim Burton’s films, was an audio-visual feast.

The Kennedy Center’s New Moves Symphony + Dance Festival moved me.

The Both and Elbow rocked the 930 club!

The Rainforest Fund Benefit Concert is worth waiting for every time.

The Wainwrights are back!

Sting visited — performing two different shows, two nights in a row — making it my favorite week of the year.

Lucy Wainwright Roche does it again.

I took a break from the Kitties for a night out with the Wainwrights.

The Rainforest Fund benefit is a not-to-be-missed annual event! Here’s how it was….