A focused, side-profile photograph of jazz guitarist Dave Stryker performing on stage. Stryker, an older person with short light-brown hair and a goatee, is looking down with intense concentration at their hollow-body electric guitar. They are wearing a dark long-sleeve shirt. The stage lighting is dramatic, highlighting Stryker against a dark, minimalist background, with the warm wood grain of the guitar's body visible in the light.
Dave Stryker Credit: Chris Drukker / Dave Stryker Media Kit

Dave Stryker is one of jazz’s greatest living guitarists and spent a decade playing for saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.

This weekend at New Tampa Performing Arts Center, the 69-year-old is joined by Florida all-stars of the genre, including the University of South Florida’s retired Director of Jazz Studies, saxophonist Jack Wilkins, plus bassist Mark Neuenschwander, University of Central Florida drummer McClenty Hunter.

Tickets to see Dave Stryker play the New Tampa Performing Arts Center in Tampa on Saturday, April 25 are still available for $10-$35.

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This article appears in Apr. 23 – 29, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...