Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bonnie.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!wjh
From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Another Greatest Guitarist Candidate
Message-ID: <599@bonnie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 19:23:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: bonnie.599
Posted: Fri Oct 25 19:23:21 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:38:18 EDT
References: <626@h-sc1.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
Lines: 18

> 
> 	My nominee for best guitarist is the jazz guitarist
> Stanley Jordan (first album "Magic Touch" just released
> .............  If anyone knows anything more about Jordan or
> if anyone plays like him, I would appreciate the
> information.
>
There was a story on Stanley in down beat within the last few months.
I saw him at a solo concert a few years ago in Princeton, where he was 
an undergrad at the time.  Even then, he was an amazing technician, 
although his muical individuality still needed much development:
even though he had his own unique technique, he seemed to be trying
too hard to sound (musically) like Wes Montgomery.  He seems to have
grown a lot since then.  

Also, the Blue Note lp is not his first, but is probably the only one
you can still find.  He recorded an lp on a small label when he was in
Princeton.  If he makes it big, someone will probably reissue it.