Stanley Jordan

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Stanley Jordan, September 9, 2006 Background information Born

July 31, 1959 (age 56) in Chicago, United States

Genres

Jazz, jazz fusion

Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter Years active

1982–present

Labels

Blue Note/Capitol/EMI Records, Arista Records, Mack Avenue Records

Website

StanleyJordan.com

Notable instruments Vigier Arpege Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959) is an American jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and pianist. Contents [hide] 

1History

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2Film and television

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3The touch technique (two-handed tapping)

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4Additional and most recent work

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5Personal life

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6Discography

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7List of television appearances

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8Papers and presentations

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9References

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10External links

History[edit] Stanley Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began his music education at age six, studying piano, then shifted his focus to guitar at age eleven.[1] He later began playing in rock and soul bands. In 1976, Jordan won an award at the Reno, Nevada, Jazz Festival. He earned

a BA in music from Princeton University in 1981, where he studied theory and composition with composer Milton Babbittand computer music with composer Paul Lansky.[2][3] While at Princeton in 1979 he played with Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie.[1] Jordan was the first artist to be signed by Bruce Lundvall when the latter became president of Blue Note Records in 1985 and, consequently, Magic Touch was the first release (not reissue) of the rejuvenated label. Magic Touch was No. 1 on Billboard's jazz chart for 51 weeks, setting a new record. Jordan also made the startup sound for the old Macintosh computers,Power Macintosh 6100, Power Macintosh 7100, and Power Macintosh 8100. Jordan has performed in over 60 countries on 6 continents. He has performed at many jazz festivals, including: Kool Jazz Festival(1984), Concord Jazz Festival (1985), and the Montreux International Jazz Festival (1985). During the 1980s Jordan played withQuincy Jones, Michal Urbaniak, and Richie Cole. Stanley Jordan has four Grammy Nominations. His 2011 album "Friends" was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Film and television[edit] Jordan made a cameo appearance in the Blake Edwards movie Blind Date (1987), starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger. In 1995 he created the score for the short film "One Red Rose", starring Hill Harper and Victoria Rowell, directed by Charlie Jordan. In 1996 he created the score for an ABC afternoon TV special, "Daddy's Girl", directed by Diane Wynter. SInce the mid 80s he has performed on numerous television shows, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The David Letterman Show and the Grammy Awards. A more complete list appears below under List of Television Appearances. The touch technique (two-handed tapping)[edit]

Normally, a guitarist uses two hands to play each note. One hand presses down a guitar string behind a chosen fret to prepare the note, and the other hand either plucks or strums the string to play that note. Jordan's touch technique is an advanced form of two-handed tapping. The guitarist produces a note using only one finger by quickly tapping (or hammering) his finger down behind the appropriate fret. The force of impact causes the string to vibrate enough to immediately sound the note, the volume can be controlled by varying the force of impact. Jordan executes tapping with both hands, and more legato than is normally associated with guitar tapping. A helpful analogy to visualize this technique is the distinction between a harpsichord and a piano. A harpsichord produces sound by plucking its strings, and a piano produces sound by striking its strings with tiny hammers. However, while notes produced on a harpsichord or piano sustain after the pick has plucked or hammer has struck, fingers must remain on a tapped note for the sound to continue. This similarity is what led Jordan to attempt such a technique in the first place;[citation needed] he was a classically trained pianist before playing guitar and wanted greater freedom in voicing chords on his guitar. Jordan's touch technique allows the guitarist to play melody and chords simultaneously. It is also possible, as Jordan has demonstrated, to play simultaneously on two different guitars, as well as guitar and piano. He plays guitar in all-fourths tuning, from bass to treble EADGCF (all in perfect fourths as on the bass guitar) rather than the standard EADGBE. He has stated that all-fourths tuning "simplifies the fingerboard, making it logical".[4] Stanley Jordan's main guitar was built by Vigier Guitars in 1988: it is an Arpege model on which Vigier made a flat fingerboard, allowing it to have a very low action (0.5/0.7mm). The low action facilitates the tapping technique.

Additional and most recent work[edit] In 2004, Stanley Jordan released the album Dreams of Peace[5] with the Italian band Novecento. The record, produced by Lino Nicolosi and Pino Nicolosi, Nicolosi Productions, was released in the USA on the Steve Vai label Favored Nations. After keeping a lower profile from 1995 to 2007, Jordan signed with Mack Avenue Records and released State of Nature in 2008 and Friends in 2011. He has maintained an extensive international touring schedule, including numerous live appearances with jam bands including The Dave Matthews Band, The String Cheese Incident, Phil Lesh, Moe and Umphrey's McGee. Personal life[edit] Stanley Jordan has one daughter, Julia Jordan, who is a singer/songwriter living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[6] Stanley Jordan is a resident of Sedona, Arizona.[7] He attends Arizona State University working toward a master's degree in music therapy.[6] Discography[edit] As Leader 

Touch Sensitive,[8] Tangent Records (1982)

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Magic Touch, Blue Note (1985)

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Standards, Vol. 1 (1986)

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Flying Home (1988)

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Cornucopia (1990)

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Stolen Moments (1991)

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The Blue Note Concert – VIDEO (1991)

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Bolero (1994)

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The Best of Stanley Jordan (1995)

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Stanley Jordan Live in New York (1998)

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Relaxing Music for Difficult Situations, I (2003)

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Ragas (2004)

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The Paris Concert – VIDEO (2007)

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State of Nature (2008)

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Friends (2011)

As Co-Leader: 

Duets (2015) - with Kevin Eubanks

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Various Artists "One Night With Blue Note" (1985)

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Various Artists "Total Happiness (Music from the Bill Cosby Show, Vol. 2)" (1986)

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Stanley Clarke "Hideaway" (1986)

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Artists Against Apartheid "Sun City" (1986)

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Kenny Rogers "Heart of the Matter" (1986) Song: Morning Desire

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Various Artists "Blind Date Film Soundtrack" (1987)

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Charnett Moffett "The Beauty Within" (1987)

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Charnett Moffett "Net Man" (1987)

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Rebbie Jackson "R U Tuff Enuff" (1988)

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Dionne Warwick "Sings Cole Porter" (1990)

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Les Paul & Friends: "He Changed The Music: LIVE At The Brooklyn Academy Of Music In New York" – VIDEO (1991)

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Cody Moffett "My Favorite Things" (2002)

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Ray Benson "Beyond Time" (2003)

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Novecento, Dreams of Peace (2004)

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Will Calhoun "Native Lands" (2005)

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Julia Jordan "Urban Legacy" (2007)

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Charnett Moffett "Treasure" (2010)

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Sharon Isbin "Guitar Passions" (2011)

List of television appearances[edit] 

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

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Late Night with David Letterman

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The Grammy Awards

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VH1 Video Music Awards

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The David Brenner Show

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The Dick Cavett Show

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The Merv Griffin Show

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The Arsenio Hall Show

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Regis and Kathy Lee

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Austin City Limits (1989)

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NOVA/PBS program on computers and music (1986)

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Bravo Network, "Stanley Jordan Live in Montreal" (1991)

Papers and presentations[edit] 

"APL For Music," APL Quote Quad, 1989

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"Musical Syntactic and Semantic Structures in APL," APL Quote Quad, 1990

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"Foundations of Suitability of APL2 for Music," IBM Systems Journal, 1991

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"Toward a Lexicon of Musical APL2 Phrases," APL Quote Quad, 1991

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"Introduction to the Chromatic System for Guitar,” Downbeat Magazine, July 2009

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"Listening to the Market—an Introduction to Technical and Fundamental Analysis by Sonification," keynote presentation, The Chicago Quantitative Alliance, 2009

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"An Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Music Therapists," selfpublished at stanleyjordan.com 2000–2002

References[edit] 1. ^ Jump up to:a b Yanow, Scott. "Stanley Jordan: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved November 28, 2011. 2. Jump up^ W. Craig: "Stanley Jordan: Two-handed Jazz Technique," GP, xvii/9 (1983) 3. Jump up^ C. Deffaa: "Stanley Jordan," Coda, no.208 (1986) 4. Jump up^ Ferguson (1986, p. 76): Ferguson, Jim (1986). "Stanley Jordan". In Casabona, Helen; Belew, Adrian. New directions in modern guitar. Guitar Player basic library. Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. pp. 68–76?. ISBN 9780881884234. 5. Jump up^ [1] 6. ^ Jump up to:a b "Biography". The Official Stanley Jordan Site. Retrieved 8 November 2015. 7. Jump up^ Meredith, Bill (May 2008). "Stanley Jordan: The Healer". JazzTimes. Retrieved 8 November 2015. 8. Jump up^ "Jordan, Stanley Biography". Bluenote.com. Blue Note Records. Retrieved November 13, 2009. After releasing a solo album on his own, he signed with Blue Note and made his major label debut in 1985 on Magic Touch…. External links[edit]

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Biography In a career that took flight in 1985 with commercial and critical acclaim, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan has consistently displayed a chameleonic musical persona of openness, imagination, versatility and maverick daring. Be it bold reinventions of classical masterpieces or soulful explorations through pop-rock hits, to blazing straight ahead jazz forays and ultramodern improvisational works—solo or with a group—Jordan can always be counted on to take listeners on breathless journeys into the unexpected. Key to Jordan’s fast-track acclaim was his mastery of a special technique on the guitar’s fretboard. Instead of conventional strumming and picking, Jordan's innovative "touch technique" is an advanced form of two-handed tapping. While a handful of other players were using similar techniques, Stanley’s fluid, multi-layered textures and sheer virtuosity raised the bar for excellence. But his technique, though impressive, is always a means to a musical end. His music is imbued with a warmth and sensitivity that has captured the imagination of listeners worldwide. A classically trained pianist before playing guitar, Jordan wanted greater freedom in voicing chords on his guitar, so he applied piano principles to do so. Jordan's touch technique allows the guitarist to play melody and chords simultaneously with an unprecedented level of independence. It also allows Jordan to play simultaneously on two different guitars, or even on guitar and piano. He says that “I think of it as a single instrument, but one with a wide range of tonal colors—that’s why I do it.” To date Jordan has performed in over 60 countries on 6 continents. He has performed at many festivals, including the Kool Jazz Festival, the Concord Jazz Festival, and the Montreaux International Jazz Festival. During the 1980s he collaborated with a diverse array of artists,

including performances with Art Blakey and Richie Cole and recordings with Stanley Clarke and Kenny Rogers. The track with Rogers, "Morning Desire", became America's #1 country song in 1986. Later Jordan became a frequent guest with Les Paul during Paul's legendary Monday nights at Iridium in New York. Today Jordan performs frequently as a soloist and with his band, as well as collaborating with other guitarists such as Kevin Eubanks, Sharon Isbin and Muriel Anderson. He's also a frequent guest with jam bands such as the Dave Matthews Band, the String Cheese Incident, Phil Lesh, Moe and Umphrey's McGee. Jordan has received four Grammy nominations. His most recent album "Friends" was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Los Angeles Times jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote, “Genius is a word often tossed around in musical circles, but it has been rightfully applied to Stanley Jordan.” Stanley Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began his music career at age six studying piano, then shifting his focus to guitar at age eleven. He then began playing in rock and soul bands. In 1976, while still in high school, Jordan performed with Quincy Jones and tied for first place as a soloist at the Reno International Jazz Festival. In 1981 he earned a BA in music from Princeton University, where he studied theory and composition with composer Milton Babbitt and computer music with composer Paul Lansky. While still at Princeton, Jordan performed with Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie. Jordan came to prominence with the release of his 1985 album Magic Touch, a revolutionary project that placed him at the forefront of re-launching legendary Blue Note Records into a contemporary entity in jazz and beyond, as also established the then-twenty-something Jordan as among the most distinctive and refreshing new voices of the electric guitar. Jordan had begun applying his unique technique to his already exemplary traditional playing ten years prior to the Magic Touch album. Though Jordan showcased the technique in a variety of musical styles from swing to rock, it was smooth jazz radio support for his singular versions of “The Lady in My Life” (first recorded by Michael Jackson) and the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” that sent Magic Touch to the top of Billboard’s jazz chart for a stunning and record-breaking 51 weeks. The album became a gold-seller (over 500,000 sold in the U.S. alone) - outstanding for any jazz or instrumental CD. Subsequent albums found Jordan ushering his audience into deeper levels of his artistry and stretching his music beyond stylistic boundaries. These projects included a solo guitar album titledStandards Volume 1 (1986) where Stanley made the bold statement that songs by the likes of Stevie Wonder and Jimi Hendrix deserved recognition as standards just as much as older chestnuts like Hoagy Charmichael’s “Georgia On My Mind.” He followed that with the dance-pop album Flying Home (1988) and the especially edgy Cornucopia (1990), which spanned the gamut from straight-ahead jazz recorded live to multi-dimensional originals recorded in the studio. Still later in 1994 after a move to Arista Records (then helmed by pop music maverick Clive Davis), he recorded the bracingly eclectic Bolero album, featuring covers of Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Drifting,” his original “Plato’s Blues” and the CD’s centerpiece, a 17-minute arrangement of Ravel’s “Bolero”, which flowed seamlessly between rock, African, Latin, “groove” and “industrial” sections. During this era, Jordan also made history by creating the seminal “startup” sound for the first generation of Power Macintosh computers. In 2002, Stanley released the album Dreams of Peace with the Italian band Novecento. It was remixed and re-released in the USA in 2004 on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label. Independently, he recorded two CDs: Ragas (a collaboration with musicians from India featuring Jay Kishor on sitar) and Relaxing Music for Difficult Situations Volume 1, an audio extension of his interest in music therapy. In 2007 Jordan signed with Mack Avenue Records and released State of Nature in 2008 andFriends in 2011. For Friends, he invited musical guests including guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Stern, Russell Malone and Charlie Hunter; violinist Regina Carter; saxophonists Kenny Garrett and Ronnie Laws; trumpeter Nicholas Payton; bassists Christian McBride and Charnett Moffett; and drummer Kenwood Dennard. The results proved truly outstanding on

numbers ranging from a Bela Bartok piece to a Katy Perry pop smash, a heady original blues and three jazz classics spanning swing, cool, samba and modern. Jordan has been known to TV and film audiences as well. In 1987 he made a cameo appearance in the Blake Edwards movie Blind Date, starring Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger. In the tribute film, Les Paul: He Changed the Music Jordan performed with a guitar supergroup including Les Paul himself, Eddie Van Halen, BB King, Steve Miller, David Gilmour, and Brian Setzer. In 1995 Jordan created the score for the short film One Red Rose, starring Hill Harper and Victoria Rowell, directed by Charlie Jordan. In 1996 he created the score for an ABC afternoon TV special Daddy's Girl, directed by Diane Wynter. Since the mid 80s he has performed on numerous television shows, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The David Letterman Show and the Grammy Awards. One notable appearance was a duet on the Tonight Show with the late rock superstar Robert Palmer. Stanley is committed to music as an artistic, spiritual, and even health-promoting endeavor. He has been immersed for more than a decade in music therapy, towards which he is now working for a master’s degree at Arizona State University. His involvement with music therapy leads him to do outreach in schools, hospitals and other venues wherever he tours. He is an artist-spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association, and he has done numerous lectures and demonstrations on the healing applications of music. Jordan has maintained an extensive and consistent international touring schedule. In between tour stops he is now at work on his next highly anticipated album from Mack Avenue Records, for release next year. Jordan is currently a resident of Sedona, Arizona. He has one daughter, Julia. Julia Jordan is a singer/songwriter living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who sometimes collaborates with her dad.

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State Of Nature

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