Stanley Jordan

USA

Born: 31 July 1959

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Jazz, Easy Listening

Styles: Instrumental Pop, Easy Listening, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Crossover Jazz, Bop

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Stanley Jordan's discovery in the early '80s rightfully earned a lot of headlines in the jazz world as he came up with a new way of playing guitar. Although he was not the first to use tapping, Jordan's extensive expertise gave him the ability to play two completely independent lines on the guitar (as if it were a keyboard) or, when he wanted, two guitars at a time. He had originally studied piano, although he switched to guitar when he was 11. After graduating from Princeton in 1981, Jordan played for a time on the streets of New York. Soon he...

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