Blues guitarist and singer Wes Mackey was born December 12, 1942, in the Big State community near Yemassee, South Carolina.

As part of Jazz Fest 2025, Jazz Maui will host three concerts paying tribute to how Hawaii influenced popular music, ...

Celebrate the artistry of Black guitarists and learn how they influenced genres from blues to rock and beyond.

All-Star Break Edition article by AAJ Staff, published on July 2, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Year in Review articles ...

"It’s too simple to play because it’s based on a five-note scale, and I had come way past that," the guitarist says ...

Mark Lettieri, a five-time Grammy Award-winning guitarist from Fort Worth, Texas, is set to take the Strauss Community Stage at the annual Iowa City Jazz Festival on July 5. Alongside his quartet, the ...

Landmark concert venues, museums, and music trails around the South continue to tell the region’s ever-changing sonic story.

Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the ...

The 28th year of the Portón del Jazz Festival will bring the finest international jazz talent to the stage every Friday in ...

There's been plenty of heat this month, and not just the temperature outside. Check out some of that six-string (and ...

In this week’s Market Monday we are featuring the sounds that you will hear while shopping at your favorite local market. The ...

On a picture-perfect day weatherwise June 28, there were some eclectic highs and lows to round out the first weekend of Summerfest 2025. The BMO Pavilion was packed to the gills June 28 for headliner ...