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Infobox musical artist| name = Stanley Jordan| image = Stanley Jordan.jpg| caption = Stanley Jordan, September 9, 2006| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_date = Birth date and age|1959|7|31|mf=y|birth_place =in Chicago, Illinois|Chicago , United States | death_date =| alias =| genre = Jazz , jazz fusion | Instruments = Electric guitar , Piano | occupation = Musician Songwriter | associated_acts =| label = Blue Note Records|Blue Note / Capitol Records|Capitol / EMI|EMI Records , Mack Avenue Records | years_active = 1982–present| website = http://www.stanleyjordan.com/ StanleyJordan.com| notable_instruments = Vigier Guitars|Vigier Arpege guitar Stanley Jordan (July 31, 1959) is an United States|American jazz / jazz fusion guitarist and pianist .
He was born in Chicago, Illinois|Chicago , Illinois , and he received a BA in digital music composition from Princeton University in 1981, studying under Computer music|computer-music composers Paul Lansky and Milton Babbitt . Stanley Jordan began his music career at age six, studying piano, then shifted his focus to guitar at age eleven.cite web|title =Stanley Jordan: Biography |first=Scott|last=Yanow |publisher=Allmusic| url =Allmusic|class=artist|id=stanley-jordan-p6862/biography|pure_url=yes |accessdate =28 November 2011 He later began playing in rock and soul bands. In 1976, Jordan won an award at the Reno, Nevada, Jazz Festival. While earning a degree from Princeton in 1981 he played with Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie .
Jordan 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 with Quincy Jones , Michal Urbaniak , and Richie Cole . Since working at Birdland (jazz club)|Birdland in New York in 1989–1990, Jordan has maintained a lower profile. Stanley Jordan has four Grammy Nominations.
Two-handed tapping technique
Normally, a guitarist must use 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, and Jordan executes tapping with both hands, and with more legato than is normally associated with guitar tapping. The note's amplitude|volume can be controlled by varying the force of impact: tapping with greater force produces a louder note.
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|date=May 2007 he was a classically trained pianist before playing guitar and wanted greater freedom in voicing chords on his guitar.
Jordan's two-handed tapping allows the guitarist to play melody and Chord (music)|chords simultaneously. It is also possible, as Jordan has demonstrated, to play simultaneously on two different guitars, as well as guitar and piano. Another feature of Jordan's playing is the tuning he uses: from bass to treble EADGCF (all in fourths as on the Chapman Stick , compared with the standard EADGBE), so the patterns for chords are the same wherever they are played on the fretboard.
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.
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 record label|label .Citation needed|date=November 2009
Market frustrations
BLP unsourced section |date=September 2011After Jordan's unique technique and obvious musicianship thrust him into the spotlight, he became frustrated with market constraints and demands placed on him and his music. Several music factions wanted to claim the Jordan sound as its own and encouraged him to follow in the track of other artists. In the early 1990s, Jordan was upset with the rigid adherence to previously-entrenched musical categories and the limitations usually placed on artists by major labels. Stanley Jordan abandoned his management team and went into deep study of music therapy and is now a member and spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association.
Personal life
BLP unsourced section |date=September 2011Jordan has one daughter, Julia, from his brief marriage. Julia Jordan is a singer/songwriter living in Los Angeles , California . Stanley Jordan also made the startup sound for the old Macintosh computers, Power Macintosh 6100 , Power Macintosh 7100 , and Power Macintosh 8100 .
Stanley Jordan is currently a resident of Sedona, Arizona|Sedona , Arizona. He attends Arizona State University , working toward a master's degree in music therapy .
Discography
Touch Sensitive , Tangent Records (1982)
Magic Touch (album)|Magic Touch , Blue Note (1985)
Cody Moffet, My Favorite Things , TCB Records (2001)
Novecento, Dreams of Peace (2004)
References
Reflist|refs=
W. Craig: "Stanley Jordan: Two-handed Jazz Technique," GP, xvii/9 (1983)
C. Deffaa: "Stanley Jordan," Coda, no.208 (1986)
cite web |url= http://www.bluenote.com/ArtistBiography.aspx? ArtistId=903809 |title=Jordan, Stanley Biography |work=Bluenote.com |publisher=Blue Note Records | quote=After releasing a solo album on his own, he signed with Blue Note and made his major label debut in 1985 on Magic Touch…. | accessdate=November 13, 2009
External links
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http://www.stanleyjordan.com/ StanleyJordan.com
Wilson & Alroy: http://www.warr.org/jordan.html Critical reviews of discography
IMDb name|id=0430188|name=Stanley Jordan
http://video.google.com/videoplay? docid=8094685026660127371& q=rigby Stanley Jordan playing " Eleanor Rigby "
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ysLpf74VzUE Stanley Jordan on the show Innovation
http://www.musictherapy.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=G3gHtPLXQOI Stanley Jordan on 'Letterman'
http://www.vigierguitars.com/page/fiche_artiste.php? id=89& lettre=j Stanley Jordan at Vigier guitars
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