Stanley Jordan: Trio The Paris Concert (2007) 1080p MBluRay x264-LOUNGE

Stanley.Jordan.Trio.The.Paris.Concert.2007.1080p.MBluRay.x264-LOUNGE | 8.74 GB

I have always been astounded that so many beginning musicians begin their musical explorations on the guitar. Despite being an at least competent pianist, I have never been able to master the fretboard technique to really be able to eke out even the most basic chords on the guitar. I blame my somewhat stubby fingers for this inability, but of course my more musically astute colleagues point out that I have no problem voicing extremely complex chords on the piano with those same stubby fingers. Perhaps it’s the more “graph like” quality of voicing items on the guitar that throws me off, or something endemic to actual guitar technique. I might have had better luck had I adopted Stanley Jordan’s innovative, almost keyboard-esque, approach: instead of using his left hand to finger notes and his right hand to strum, Jordan exploits the “tapping” technique where he uses both hands to play the fretboard almost like a pianist percussively presses the keys. Surprisingly, Jordan’s approach doesn’t result in an overly staccato sound, and in fact there are beautifully sustained legato passages in a lot of Jordan’s work. This 2007 Paris concert, part of in-Akustik’s New Morning (a Paris nightclub) Blu-ray series, finds the guitarist and his ace band in fine form as they move through both originals and standards.

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The history of jazz guitar is peppered with a number of really interesting and innovative African American artists. In the 1960’s Wes Montgomery’s nonchalant take on the West Coast jazz movement, highlighted by his brilliantly silky octave work, made him one of the few jazz artists of his era to break through to a wider pop audience, especially with his extremely popular releases on Creed Taylor’s CTi label. It was Montgomery himself who evidently told CTi’s distributor Herb Alpert about another up and coming guitarist, a gentleman named George Benson. Of course Benson took Montgomery’s approach of jazz inflected pop tunes to a new level of popular success, becoming one of the very few jazz artists to score Top 10 singles. While Jordan hasn’t had that same level of across the board popular appeal, he has become one of the more enduring jazz guitarists of his generation and was the first artist to release product on the reborn Blue Note label in the 1980’s. Now some 30 years later, he’s approaching elder, or at least middle aged, statesman status, but he still approaches his axe and the tunes themselves with a youthful insouciance and exuberance.
Jordan begins the evening with a solo tour through “Yesterday,” which he gives a gently rolling triplet feel. A couple of songs later, he demonstrates one of the benefits of his tap technique when he sits at a Yamaha grand piano and begins to simultaneously play both the keys and his guitar on an extended fanstasia that ultimately leads into a nicely swinging version of Horace Silver’s “Song for my Father.” Jordan acquits himself more than admirably on both the piano and guitar in this harmonically relatively simple and straightforward piece. I half expected Jordan to pull a trifecta and start playing a trumpet as well when he moved onto the Miles Davis classic “All Blues,” but apparently piano and guitar were enough to keep him occupied this time around. This piece offers a neat, if short, opening solo by bassist Charnett Moffett.
Jordan demonstrates his versatility, even his daring, when he then moves onto some pieces from the classical repertoire, which he deconstructs with a jazzman’s ear. It’s interesting that he chose Bela Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra to “examine,” as it were, as Bartok famously utilized quartal harmonies (i.e., based on fourths), something which Jordan himself uses in his unusually tuned guitar, which contains only perfect fourths, instead of the typical E-A-D-G-B-E tuning. Jordan then takes his recompositional technique to a solo guitar rendition of Mozart’s Piano Concerto #21, Second Movement, which became an international hit in the 1960’s as the Theme to ‘Elvira Madigan’. Here Jordan recasts the melody in a sly, quasi-rock 6/8 meter.
Rounding out the final third of the concert are several less unusual selections, including a nice, understated (if occasionally strangely outré) version of John Coltrane’s “Naima,” as well as another Lennon-McCartney masterpiece, “Because.” Moffett once again demonstrates his mastery in an extended solo introduction to “Amazing Grace,” which includes a variety of fun techniques, including plucking his strings below the bridge, and various augmented electronic effects as he bows at other times. A couple of Jordan originals are sprinkled into this mix. Drummer David Haynes also provides excellent, unshowy support throughout the entire concert.
This is a surprisingly introspective, often Impressionistic, hour and a half of music. Less ostensibly histrionic than some of the other concerts in the New Morning series, it nonetheless amply demonstrates Jordan’s unerring musicality and the genius both of his technique and his understanding. It’s a fine selection of often unusual elements, and jazz lovers should find it well worth their while.

Stanley.Jordan.Trio.The.Paris.Concert.2007.1080p.MBluRay.x264-LOUNGE


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          O1 Yesterday
          O2 A Place In Space
          O3 Song For My Father
          O4 All Blues
          O5 New Morning Improv
          O6 Improvised excerpt from Bela Bartok's concerto
          O7 Mozart's Piano Concerto No 21, 2nd movement
          O8 Now's The Time
          O9 Naima
          1O Because
          11 Amazing Grace
          12 Return Expedition

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