Part of the joy of Jazz Fest is being blown away by someone unexpected. I had that twice yesterday: – Yvette Landry‘s set in the Lagniappe Tent was a beautiful surprise, and not just because she had a ...

Improvising is just a natural thing that comes from church too. You would just listen to the song, and stay inside the song, but build on it Before a performance in Birmingham, Alabama, AAJ had the ...

Today, the Spotlight shines On the innovative pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn. While Susan got her start playing in country & western bands in Texas, she has taken the pedal steel into new and ...

Buddy Emmons, an innovative pedal steel guitarist who toured with the Everly Brothers, Ray Price and Ernest Tubb and was one of the first to bring the instrument into the jazz and rock genres, died ...

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Steel Guitar Jazz, the reissue of a 1963 album by Buddy Emmons.

Pedal steel guitar is a staple of country music, but Alcorn bends it around odd corners. Her quintet's new album is beyond category — roaming betwixt jazz and improvised music and rock and country.

Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, died on Friday, January 31. Baltimore’s High Zero Foundation shared the news ...