Blue Note Entertainment Group presents Stanley Jordan
Blue Note Napa
1030 Main St, Napa, CA 94559-2641 USA
9:00 PM, Friday, February 10, 2023

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[9:03 PM] {House Announcements; enter SJ}

1. [9:05 PM] (unidentified tune #1)
   [9:15 PM] {pause for SJ to futz with his guitar}
2. [9:15 PM] El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
   [9:20 PM] {pause for SJ to chug a pint of water}
   [9:22 PM] {SJ yack about “Ahhh!”}
3. [9:24 PM] All the Children
   [9:31 PM] {SJ moves to the piano; retunes guitar to match piano}
4. [9:33 PM] (unidentified tune #2)
5. [9:40 PM] Invitation ^
   [9:47 PM] {SJ back to midstage (guitar only); yacking about Mozart}
6. [9:51 PM] Improvisation on the Andante from Mozart Piano Concerto #21
   [9:58 PM] {SJ talks about his coming album}
7. [9:59 PM] City of New Orleans ^
   [10:04 PM] {SJ: long physics-ionization frequency-scales talk}
8. [10:11 PM] Sounds of the Elements
   [10:24 PM] {thanks for coming everyone!}
9. [10:25 PM] (unidentified tune #3) »
10. [10:30 PM] Eleanor Rigby » (crazy jam in multiple episodes) » Eleanor Rigby (reprise)
    [10:42 PM] {Thanks, goodnight! show ends; no encore, dang!}

• Stanley Jordan: guitar, piano, vox.

I thought Stanley played with lots more dissonance tonight than my recollection from times past: less emphasis on crystalline tapping in traditional major and minor keys and more time cascading through strange arpeggiated runs of weird harmonics. Tough enough listening that I found it hard to stay engaged at times; maybe I was just too tired.

Although he first worked it up four or five years ago, I hadn't heard Sounds of the Elements before. Stanley played us Hydrogen through Scandium (first 21 elements), with a bonus jam tagged on at the end. Kinda cool!

Given Stanley's classical studies, it's entirely possible that the 'preamble' to Eleanor Rigby was a prelude-like free improv, but I suppose it's just as likely to be one more regular tune of his that I couldn't identify. And on that front, I was pretty sure that the first 'episode' after Eleanor Rigby was an entirely new tune, but after awhile Stanley mutated it into a Hendrix-like meltdown. Just when I thought that was done, he cleaned up his tone and returned to Eleanor Rigby, whew! So maybe a medley, or maybe just a wild musical journey.

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Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2023 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2023 event list! ☸ On to the next event!