Jazz Articles about Steve Adelson

Steve Adelson: The New Sticktet--The Answer's Inside

by C. Michael Bailey
October 2, 2002

It was at the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock a number of years ago that I first saw the Chapman Stick. I had previously been watching guitarist Stanley Jordan and his hammer-on technique for playing guitar as well as the same technique applied a bit differently by Eddie Van Halen, so the concept of “the Stick" was not foreign. What I was struck by was how similar to playing the piano performing on the stick was. It kind of ...