Live-music venues worth the trip in Miami, Florida

Downtown Miami’s performing arts center whose 2,200-seat Knight Concert Hall anchors the Live at Knight series of rock, pop, soul and world music and a Jazz Roots series alongside Broadway, opera and ballet.

The downtown Bayfront Park amphitheater on Biscayne Bay, a city-run open-air stage in a 32-acre park that books national touring headliners with the skyline and the water as the backdrop.

The Miami HEAT’s downtown arena on the Biscayne Bay waterfront, which hosts more than 80 non-basketball events a year including A-list concerts.

A Little Havana saloon on Calle Ocho that opened in 1935, where Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Chet Baker played in the late 1950s, revived with nightly salsa and Latin music and live jazz early in the week.

A Miami wine house with no reservations and live music every night, a city bar where the band is the reason to go rather than the background.