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From: peggy@ism70.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: string fever (Stanley Jordan)
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 09:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 09:50:00 1985
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Nf-From: ism70!peggy    Apr 25 10:50:00 1985


Stanley Jordan is an amazing, new guitar player who uses a two-handed
technique (both hands produce notes by tapping on the finger-board
without plucking or strumming).  With this new technique, Stanley is
capable of creating a whole new vocabulary of possibilities for the
guitar.  He has two albums out.  The first, Touch Sensitive (on a
small label out of San Jose), is very difficult to find.  The second,
Magic Touch (on Blue Note - BT85101), is a digital recording produced
by Al Di Meola.  It has solo and group performances and contains tunes
such as Round Midnite, A Child is Born, Eleanor Rigby, and The Lady In
My Life.  Stanley's technique is phenomenal, and his musical taste is
also highly refined.  He really sounds like two GOOD guitarist playing
simultaneously.

As a guitar player, I feel that Stanley Jordan is seriously challenging
the accepted tradition of the guitar.  If this guy gets the attention
he deserves, guitar playing will be permanently changed.

"It's nice to hear a new guitarist who can stretch from Round Midnite
to Eleanor Rigby and The Lady In My Life, free and daring...my favorite
kind of musician.  Stanley Jordan may you forever grow.  You and Wynton
have made my last five years."  -- Quincy Jones

				Submitted by Peggy Lerch
					for Tim Lerch