![]() ![]() The album was produced by Lino Nicolosi and Pino Nicolosi at Nicolosi Productions and was released in the U.S. In 2004, he released the album Dreams of Peace with the Italian band Novecento. He has performed at many jazz festivals, including Kool Jazz Festival (1984), Concord Jazz Festival (1985), and the Montreux International Jazz Festival (1985). The low action facilitates the tapping technique.Īmong the artists Jordan has worked with are Quincy Jones, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Michal Urbaniak, Richie Cole, The Dave Matthews Band, The String Cheese Incident, Phil Lesh, Moe, and Umphrey's McGee. Jordan's main guitar was built by Vigier Guitars in 1984: it is an Arpege model on which Vigier made a flat fingerboard, allowing it to have a very low action (0.5/0.7mm). He has stated that all-fourths tuning "simplifies the fingerboard, making it logical". ![]() 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. It is also possible, as he has demonstrated, to play simultaneously on two different guitars, as well as guitar and piano. His technique allows the guitarist to play melody and chords simultaneously. Jordan taps with both hands, and more legato than is normally associated with guitar tapping. The impact causes the string to vibrate enough to sound the note, and the volume can be controlled by varying the force of impact. The guitarist produces a note using only one finger by quickly tapping (or hammering) his finger down behind the appropriate fret. Jordan's touch technique is an advanced form of two-handed tapping. 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. Normally, a guitarist uses two hands to play each note. Blue Note released his album Magic Touch, which sat at No.1 on Billboard 's jazz chart for 51 weeks, setting a record. In 1985, Bruce Lundvall became president of Blue Note Records and Stanley Jordan was the first person he signed. While at Princeton he played with Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie. He also took freshman calculus with Edward Nelson. At Princeton University, he studied music theory and composition with Milton Babbitt and computer music with Paul Lansky. In 1976, he won an award at the Reno Jazz Festival. He later began playing in rock and soul bands. When he was six, he started on piano, then at eleven switched to guitar. Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. ![]()
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