A 19-year-old Labor Day tradition for Charleston is just around the corner.

For almost two decades, the Lowcountry Jazz Festival has delivered some of the biggest soul-jazz and smooth-jazz performers in the country to the Holy City — everyone from Christian Yañez, Art Sherrod Jr. and Alan Scott to Will Downing, Chuck Loeb, Marcus Johnson and Lin Rountree.

This year’s Labor Day weekend lineup for the festival at the Gaillard Center is no different. The Aug. 30 performance features seminal fusion jazz guitarist Bob James and platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated R&B singer Kem. James is best known for his best-selling duet albums with fellow guitarist Earl Klugh.

The next night, soul jazz will reign supreme, with sets from veteran act Pieces Of A Dream and saxophonist Boney James, who’s scor

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