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'My favorite kind of musician,' said Quincy Jones about Stanley Jordan, the man who opened up whole new vistas for guitar textures and voicings with his use of a two-handed fretboard-tapping technique. Here in July 1990 Jordan starts solo, with the dreamy title track from his 1988 album, Flying Home, and on nine more numbers does solos versus trios in a roughly two-to-one ratio. The guitarist reprises some numbers off the then-new Cornucopia ('Autumn Leaves,' 'Willow Weep for Me,' the Marvin Gaye 'What`s Goin` On`), and some of his first head-turning release, Magic Touch (a hard-driving, gritty version of 'Eleanor Rigby,' Rod Temperton`s 'The Lady in My Life,' his own catchy 'All the Children'). Other numbers include an 8-minute-plus take on Burt Bacharach`s 'One Less Bell to Answer' complete with every example of guitar technique known to man. But there`s more to Jordan than technique: there`s also soul, gentility and uncommon musicianship.
1. Flying Home
2. Cousin Mary
3. Autrumn Leaves
4. All The Children
5. One Less Bell To Answer
6. Eleanor Rigby
7. Willow Weep For Me
8. What's Going On
9. Lady In My Life
10. Stairway To Heaven
Stanley Jordan