Jake Shimabukuro combines the qualities of a long line of virtuoso ukulele players with modern rock musicians to create a sound that’s uniquely his own but still firmly grounded in Hawaiian tradition. He has topped Billboard’s World Music Chart numerous times, been declared a musical “hero” by Rolling Stone Magazine (which also stated: “one of the hottest axemen of the past few years doesn’t actually play guitar”), and along the way has earned comparisons to musical innovators such as Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis.