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  Stanley Jordan at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Stanley Jordan is a jazz/jazz fusion guitarist, best known for his development of the touch technique for playing guitar.
Jordan's touch technique is an advanced form of tapping, which allows a guitarist to produce a note using only one finger.
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.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Stanley_Jordan.html   (454 words)

  
 Gregg Echols, The Archaic Man and Depth Psychology
To watch Stanley Jordan delicately pluck and strum his guitar and hear the piano-like sounds coming from his instrument—yes, an unusual sound of music originating from a guitar—this was amazingly emotional and warm; a sensation almost like a glove that fits snuggly on one’s hand.
Jordan’s strumming of his electric guitar gives me a peak into what Hillman calls “that sense of taste in relation with things, that thrill or pain, disgust or expansion of breast, those primordial aesthetic reactions of the heart which are soul itself speaking” (p.
Stanley Jordan has done this with his music in such a way that the audience, too, becomes a part of his composition and performance—much like the construction workers becoming a part of the building designed by an architect.
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 Stanley Jordan - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jordan is the only guitarist known to use two-handed tapping techniques predominantly, and has developed it to a remarkable degree.
Another feature of Jordan's playing is the tuning he uses: from bass to treble EADGCF (all in 4ths, compared with the standard EADGBE).
As this album is not listed at Jordan's Web page, he may not consider it an "official" part of his work.
voyager.in /Stanley_Jordan   (474 words)

  
 [sic] » Piano Man
It mentions his long collaboration beginning in 1981 with Wynton Marsalis, and that he toured extensively with Sting for five years to 1990.
And it lists the CDs of others upon which his work appears: Stanley Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval, Ernie Watts.
So I got on the Web and did a search and found out there was a new album out.
www.wildbell.com /archives/piano-man   (848 words)

  
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