March 11 Palma Conservatory 8.30 p.m.
Stanley Jordan, born July 31, 1959 in Chicago.
At the age of six years began to study music at the piano, at age 11 playing guitar, due to the influence of the music of Jimi Hendrix, but before long, had transferred to jazz. In his teens, he worked on the adaptation to both hands piano style for the fingerboard of the guitar called "touch or tapping in the during which he also developed a pitch of the instrument most suited to this new approach. His mastery with this new style, had reached such a level of development, which led him to win the solo competition at the International Festival Reno Jazz, when he was 17. After a period of study at the Princeton University, Jordan in 1981 obtained a degree in Theory music and composition. After finishing at Princeton, Jordan launched in 1982 its first solo album, Touch Sensitive.
The album did not generate much interest, and guitarist made his living for a time as street musician around New York, Philadelphia and other cities. In 1985 he recorded the album Magic Jordan Touch, which would have a huge critical and commercial success, remaining in the atop the jazz charts for 51 weeks. His innovative technique of playing guitar is to press the strings with the two hands, in Instead of the traditional to tear with the fingers of one hand and press strings against the mast with the fingers of the another. Based on This technique achieves reproduce sound of two and up to three guitars or accompany main sound bass lines. This technique is known as tapping.
With Stanley gets it harmonies complex, clean sounds similar to the piano. Despite not being the first guitarist to use this technique, if the first thing taken to extremes of Use unique in his musical output. Despite this enormous success, appearing in such films as Blind or quotes television programs of great impact, the musical production of Stanley Jordan has not been as dramatic as might be expected after its successful debut, as he has devoted much of his time experimenting in the field of the music therapy.
A particular feature is the tuning used in guitar, that is, low to high, EADGCF (Mi, A, D, G, C F) which leads the tuning in fourths Chapman Stick style, and the reverse of some string instruments (like the violin or the cello). Note that the strings are more acute this interval instead of a third major alteration on the second string, which leads to B and E in the traditional tuning. In Mallorca concert will present his latest album State of Nature, a series of reflections on the relationship between humanity and the nature. Stanley Jordan is formulated fundamental questions about the Desharmonía origin of modern man, himself, with his beings and with nature.
Venue: Conservatori Superior de Música c/ Alfons el Magnànim, 64
Date & Time: 11/03/2010 20:30 – 22:30
Price: 25 €
Tickets: Musicasa, servicaixa (Phone: +34 – 902 33 22 11) and www.servicaixa.com
info artists: info@guitarrasdelmundo.es
