Stanley Jordan

Guitarist

Stanley Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on July 31st, 1959 and is the Guitarist. At the age of 64, Stanley Jordan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 31, 1959
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Age
64 years old
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Guitarist, Jazz Guitarist, Jazz Musician, Pianist, Street Artist
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Stanley Jordan Life

Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959) is an American jazz guitarist whose technique involves tapping his fingers on the guitar's fretboard with both hands.

Personal life

Stanley Jordan was briefly married and has one child, Julia Jordan, who is a singer and songwriter.

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Stanley Jordan Career

Music career

Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He started playing piano when he was six, and then switched to guitar at eleven. He played in rock and soul bands later in life. He received an award at the Reno Jazz Festival in 1976. He studied music theory and composition with Milton Babbitt and computer music with Paul Lansky at Princeton University. He also did freshman calculus with Edward Nelson. He played with Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie while attending Princeton.

Bruce Lundvall, the first person to sign Blue Note Records in 1985, was Stanley Jordan, the first one to sign. Magic Touch, Blue Note's debut, ranked No. 1 on Billboard's jazz chart for 51 weeks, a record.

A guitarist usually plays each note with two hands. One hand pulls a guitar string behind a selected fret to craft the note, while the other hand plucks or strums the string to play that note. Jordan's touch technique is a more advanced form of two-handed tapping. By tapping (or hammering) his finger down behind the appropriate fret, the guitarist creates a note using only one finger. The string is triggered enough to make it sound, and the volume can be adjusted by changing the force of impact. Jordan taps with both hands and a more legato style than is typically associated with guitar tapping. Due to his playing style, the guitarist can perform melody and chords simultaneously. It's also possible, as he has shown, to perform simultaneously on two different guitars as well as guitar and piano.

He plays guitar in all-fourths tuning, from bass to treble EADGCF (all in flawless fourths as on the bass guitar) rather than the traditional EADGBE. "Simplifies the fingerboard, making it logical," he says.

Vigier Guitars made Jordan's main guitar in 1984: it is an Arpege model on which Vigier made a flat fingerboard, allowing it to have a smooth action (0.5/0.7mm). The tapping operation is made possible by the low resistance.

Quincy Jones, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Michal Urbaniak, Richie Cole, The Dave Matthews Band, The String Cheese Incident, Phil Lesh, Moe, and Umphrey's McGee are among the artists Jordan has collaborated with.

He has appeared at many jazz festivals, including the Kool Jazz Festival (1984), Concord Jazz Festival (1985), and Montreux International Jazz Festival (1985).

In 2004, he released the album Dreams of Peace with the Italian band Novecento. Lino Nicolosi and Nicolosi at Nicolosi Productions produced the album, which was released in the United States on Favored Nations. In 2008 and Friends, he signed with Mack Avenue Records and declared State of Nature. The latter was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. He has four Grammy nominations. The Power Macintosh 6100, Power Macintosh 7100, and Power Macintosh 8100 were among Jordan's startup sounds for the Macintosh computer models the Power Macintosh 6100, Power Macintosh 7100.

In the film Blind Date (1987), Jordan made a cameo appearance. He wrote the score for the short film One Red Rose in 1995. He wrote the score for the ABC TV afternoon special Daddy's Girl in 1996.

He has appeared on numerous television programs, including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The David Letterman Show, and the Grammy Awards since the mid-1980s.

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