Stanley Jordan
Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American jazz guitarist.
Jordan began studying piano at the age of six and switched to guitar at the age of eleven. He developed a technique called touch playing , in which the strings of the guitar are not torn, but are struck on the guitar's fingerboard, analogous to the piano technique. With this technique he became the best soloist at the Reno International Jazz Festival in 1976 .
Until 1981 he studied music at Princeton University and played with jazz bands in the region, but also with greats like Dizzy Gillespie . He then founded the Tangent Records label , where he released his first album Touch Sensitive in 1982 . The album was a failure, and Jordan street musician for some time in New York , Philadelphia and other cities.
In 1985 his album Magic Touch was released on Blue Note Records , which had great success with critics and audiences and stayed at the top of the jazz charts for almost a year. He subsequently appeared on television shows such as The Tonight Show and David Letterman , and starred in the 1987 film Blind Date with a stranger to Blake Edwards . In the course of the next few years more than half a dozen other albums were released, and since the mid-1990s he has also been active for the American Music Therapy Association .
Discographic notes
- Touch Sensitive , 1982
- Magic Touch with Onaje Allan Gumbs , Charnett Moffett , Peter Erskine , Sammy Figueroa , Omar Hakim , Eddie Daniels , Wayne Brathwaite , Bugsy Moore , (1985)
- Standards, Vol. 1 (1986)
- Flying Home with Preston Glass , Noel Closson , Steve Reid , Codaryl Moffett , Larry Graham , Joshua Thompson , David Conley , Anthony Jackson , (1988)
- Cornucopia with Bernard Wright , Kenny Kirkland , Jeff Watts , Charnett Moffett, Kenwood Dennard , Yossi Fine , Michael Flythe , Flare Funston , Robert Zantay , (1990)
- Stolen Moments , Trio with Charnett Moffett and Kenwood Dennard , (1991)
- Bolero (1994)
- The Best of Stanley Jordan (1995)
- Stanley Jordan Live in New York with Kenny Kirkland, Charnett Moffett, Jeff Watts, Bernard Wright , Yossi Fine , JT Lewis , (1998)
- Relaxing Music for Difficult Situations, I , solo album, (2003)
- Ragas with Jay Kishor and Vedang Londhe , (2004)
- Dreams of Peace with Dora , Lino , Rossana and Pino Nicolosi , (2004)
- State of Nature , (2008)
- Friends (2011)
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jordan, Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz guitarist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |