Street scenes at 2011 Jazz Walk in North City

It was the kind of evening where people would stop and talk.
Photo by Jerry Pickard.

Street vendors sold food and goods along the street.
Photo by Jerry Pickard.

Dance instruction from Salsa Hot Latin Dance while the band Tumbao played.
Photo by Steven H. Robinson.

Were any of the new salsa dancers in this group?  Tumbao plays.
Photo by Steven H. Robinson.

It was warm enough to sit outside comfortably to listen to Sonado Latin Jazz.
Photo by Jerry Pickard.

Or you could sit inside and listen to Pearl Django.
Photo by Steven H. Robinson.

The Janette West Quartet played in the intimate setting of the North City Bistro.
Photo by Steven H. Robinson

If you missed Jazz Walk this year, put it on your calendar for August 2012.  It just keeps getting bigger and better every year.  

But one piece of Jazz Walk is left to admire, the living street decorations - the baskets of flowers hanging on the street lights.