SAN FRANCISCO — “You must have really good taste in music,” said Preservation Hall Jazz Band bassist and tuba player Ben Jaffe shortly before midnight as the group and the remaining members of a second line parade that had just marched through the Fillmore to the stage synched up…

Photos: Jay Demetillo SAN FRANCISCO — Traditionally, at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, people embrace the mantra “New Year, New Me.” That may very well have been the case with the official grand opening of the San Francisco Armory as an event venue, as well as…