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In Pictures

Stanley Jordan at Tabarka Jazz Festival 2017

Read "Stanley Jordan at Tabarka Jazz Festival 2017" reviewed by Andrea Rotili


After a hiatus of several years, Jazz à Tabarka, the festival established in 1973 by Mourad Mathari, ran again from July 22-29. As usual it featured a full program of pop, rock and jazz in the heart of Tunisia. On 28 July the festival featured legendary guitarist Stanley Jordan, who mesmerized the audience with his extraordinary technique by which he approaches the guitar as if it were a piano, tapping the strings rather than plucking them and giving the illusion ...

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My Blue Note Obsession

Stanley Jordan: Standards Volume 1 – 1986

Read "Stanley Jordan: Standards Volume 1 – 1986" reviewed by Marc Davis


In my lust for Blue Note CDs, I've mostly focused on the label's classic period: the 1950s and '60s. That's where you'll find the very best hard bop and soul-jazz ever produced. But nothing good lasts forever, and no particular musical style stays popular for long. As bop and soul faded, so did Blue Note. The label limped into the '70s, producing not much of interest. Finally, inevitably, the label died in the 1980s. It simply stopped producing ...

Album Review

Kevin Eubanks, Stanley Jordan: Duets

Read "Duets" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


La chitarra è uno strumento che per sua natura si presta all'interazione in duo con un altro strumento, di qualsiasi tipo, ma è proprio con un'altra chitarra che le possibilità espressive pressoché illimitate sembrano riuscire a esprimersi al meglio. Per questo i duetti tra chitarristi sono sempre stati frequenti in tutti i generi musicali, dalla classica al rock, dal folk all'avanguardia, senza dimenticare ovviamente il jazz, anche se non sempre gli abbinamenti tra i musicisti mantengono quanto promesso sulla carta. ...

Album Review

Stanley Jordan: Friends

Read "Friends" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Stanley Jordan comparve circa trent'anni fa sulla scena jazz come una promessa importante, apparentemente in grado di rivoluzionare il suo strumento, anche da un punto di vista tecnico (ricorderete tutti il suo tapping a due mani sulla tastiera della chitarra...). Non è andata così e dopo tanti anni il chitarrista è un po' rientrato nei ranghi e le sue soluzioni tecniche sono meno fantasmagoriche. O per lo meno l'attenzione viene dirottata da tutt'altra parte. Con questo showcase, che raduna importanti ...

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Album Review

Stanley Jordan: Friends

Read "Friends" reviewed by David Rickert


Stanley Jordan's breakthrough recording, Magic Touch (Blue Note, 1985), was aptly named; the guitarist's two-handed tapping technique seemed to be achieved through sorcery rather than practice. People had used tapping before, but never to the level that Jordan did--comping and soloing at the same time, and giving the illusions of two guitarists playing at once. Those who have never seen it should view the YouTube clip below, to get their bearings on the guitarist's idiosyncratic style.However, virtuosity does ...

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Album Review

Stanley Jordan: Friends

Read "Friends" reviewed by Larry Taylor


In a successful career of over 25 years, guitarist Stanley Jordan has always displayed his versatility--equally adept at blues, straight-ahead jazz and ever inventive with classical masterpieces. His virtuosity and improvisational prowess are a given, and on Friends, he also shows his skill on piano on two numbers. Primarily, he brings in old pals from various backgrounds and delivers terrific arrangements, ranging across the jazz spectrum, mixing in originals with swing, post bop, samba, blues, pop and a couple from ...


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