Bob Dylan's Saturday set at Jazz Aspen's Labor Day festival proved remarkably engaging for a notoriously fickle live performer. Photo from TourTracker.com . A regal recorded orchestral piece washed over Brush Creek Valley and the late summer sun had just begun to set behind the Elk Mountains on Saturday when Bob Dylan & His Band took the stage in front of the enthusiastic crowd gathered in Snowmass Town Park for the third night of this year’s Jazz Aspen Labor Day music festival. Introduced as “the poet laureate of rock ‘n’ roll” and “the voice of the '60s,” Dylan and his rhythm and blues-savvy players lived up to those accolades by launching into the utterly singalong-able “Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35.” Looking as serious about the business at hand as a preacher on Sunday morning, the man stood at a keyboard center stage. He was terribly dapper in a long, tailored cream jacket with black lapels and severe shoulders, along with matching slacks and a boater-style hat — fashion made all the more dramatic by his band dressing in similar suits that were head-to-toe black. For many in the crowd, the fashion would be the most detail they could see as the large screens flanking the stage, which all day had been used to project artist close-ups, remained only on a wide angle throughout the Dylan performance. Also unnerving to some was the way Dylan’s vocal delivery has gotten increasingly muddy over the years. Still, the acoustics are excellent i ...
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Bob Dylan's Saturday set at Jazz Aspen's Labor Day festival proved remarkably engaging for a notoriously fickle live performer. Photo from TourTracker.com . A regal recorded orchestral piece washed over Brush Creek Valley and the late summer sun had just begun to set behind the Elk Mountains on Saturday when Bob Dylan & His Band took the stage in front of the enthusiastic crowd gathered in Snowmass Town Park for the third night of this year’s Jazz Aspen Labor Day music festival. Introduced as “the poet laureate of rock ‘n’ roll” and “the voice of the '60s,” Dylan and his rhythm and blues-savvy players lived up to those accolades by launching into the utterly singalong-able “Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35.” Looking as serious about the business at hand as a preacher on Sunday morning, the man stood at a keyboard center stage. He was terribly dapper in a long, tailored cream jacket with black lapels and severe shoulders, along with matching slacks and a boater-style hat — fashion made all the more dramatic by his band dressing in similar suits that were head-to-toe black. For many in the crowd, the fashion would be the most detail they could see as the large screens flanking the stage, which all day had been used to project artist close-ups, remained only on a wide angle throughout the Dylan performance. Also unnerving to some was the way Dylan’s vocal delivery has gotten increasingly muddy over the years. Still, the acoustics are excellent i ...