Stanley Jordan "Stairway to Heaven" Live at Crossroads (Garwood NJ)

[@alexanderallegra432]

This guy has perfected his craft, a true brother of the arts, a gem to behold for mankind

[@itsrasalhague]

Stanley is the only person who wouldn't get kicked out if he played this at Guitar Center

[@WhereIsPancakesHouse]

How does this comment only have four likes?

[@robertmeyer8735]

Stanley has always been on a level that most cannot comprehend, guitarists are just now beginning to make more popular his style he was doing 40 years ago!!!No one can really even come close to duplicating this master!!

[@agumperz]

That is so true. There are a handful of great players and they are impressive. But then there is Stanley. He is on a different plane.

[@cortezmobley8476]

Except Reggie Wooten, he comes very close to duplicating Stanley.

[@jonathanmoon86]

I remember watching him in late 80's but Eddie was the man at the time

[@rastafaaa1073]

Jpder...pero que veis en Stanley...que no veis en otros? Puedo hacer una lista ahora mismo de 20 o 30 guitarristas que tocan así...pero no todo el rato...todo el tiempo así ABURRE. Abasi...Wooten...Bertroud...en fin...sabemos que mc lauglin puede...que Al de Meola puede y muchísimos más...pero ya te digo que no lo hacen porque todo el tiempo así ABURRE y sobre todo, y todos los recursos que no usa y que realzan una pieza???

[@tonebrennan8475]

Scotty Mishoe is an absolute master of bidextral tapping

[@bashirhoosain5287]

I'm a led Zeppelin fan of old. A jazz fan of recent, now a Stanley Jordan fan for the rest of my life!

[@bradgriffith4231]

Everybody thinks fusion is something new. Bands of the 70s were almost all fusion of several genres. Allman Bros were Blues/Rock/ Country, Yes was Jazz/Rock, most of the 60s British bands were Blues/Rock.

[@ronfleming5488]

He is one of the most talented guitarists to ever set his hands to the instrument.

[@futurebabel]

to say that these guys know what they're doing is an understatement

[@billsmith2212]

I believe I first saw him busking in NYC in front of the library at Fifth Ave. and 42nd Street at lunch time . In 1980 ! And at many shows since . Never disappoints !

[@michaelmaltese9304]

That man is one HELL of a guitarist! WOW!

[@athenassigil5820]

This isn't for everyone, but I found it very transcendent.....wow.....

[@bashirhoosain5287]

Any song he touches or taps, turns to Gold Long live SJ

[@timkjazz]

When Bernard Purdie claps for you at the end of a song you have achieved a level of playing very rare in this day and age. Stanley Jordan is a titan on guitar.

[@scottblakey1603]

I thought that was him....and of course the shuffle!

[@timklinger3147]

Stanley Jordan is the greatest musician ever

[@lunarlight3131]

lol not at all

[@hwilmore]

I will not argue that assertion. Where does it come from? And Where does this live in a human being?

[@binkydamauler]

​@@lunarlight3131 thank you because i am the greatest of all eternity!!! 🙂👍🏾

[@pablo.romero]

60 years old. How is it possible?

[@RavnerRavner]

Vampire

[@Lulavenera]

Not possible

[@MattPerrette]

(Michael Scott voice) Black don't crack!

[@margiewhitehead2453]

I've never seen anyone play a guitar like that . And believe me... I've seen a lot of guitarist . Absolutely Mind boggling and I love it.

[@taxwizkid]

Man i needed this today,, touched my soul !

[@rvmcwhorter]

Holy shit !! What did I just watch ? Stunning and beautiful . Mind blowing .

[@TomTom-xp2jb]

This made me cry because it's so beautiful and my friend who loved it has just passed. Thankyou for such a touching rendition Stanley Jordan. Truly one of the great guitarists of all time. ❤

[@waynefoote3781]

I am very sorry for your loss.

[@TomTom-xp2jb]

@@waynefoote3781 Thankyou ❤️

[@brianbillings6815]

Incredible!

[@psikora100]

I was blessed to see him here twice before I moved to Honduras. So lucky.

[@thurayyakey9504]

I saw Stanley Jordan perform live at Crossroads for my birthday many years back and it was the best present ever!!! Still have the autographs. Will never forget it. His aura was so warm and what a great performance....genius.🔥🎶

[@ozkanaksit]

really insane💯💥👊

[@2godgood]

Seen him in toad place in New Haven Connecticut,he played that song was my little nephew favorite song before he pass away in crib death

[@misterx4757]

Pure genius!!!!!!!!!!

[@andytaylor6781]

Absolutely splendid

[@alpaykasal2902]

WOW! 1st time hearing Stanley Jordan, and just, wow!

[@bethtrotter2372]

Where do you begin. Really pleased the world is re discovering this master

[@audible67]

The world still goes cool and then yawns.

[@userminus1752]

Still relevant and exceptional. Love the style mash-up of Stanley/bassist/drummer.

[@adrianolabusta6620]

perfect example of not limiting your ideas to the technology of your time man was playing music for the future most new bands try to replicate this throughout genres

[@abdullahumar3847]

Extreme tapping. I know he's been doing this since the 80s. He plays jazz on a rock song.. well I also can do this.. but plays piano on a guitar? ..wow it's simply amazing.

[@CastleCritters]

I have this meet this Gentlemen , to say kind , Loving , Humble , is not Justice , but Beauty , and Chops , with Grace

[@pierrepicot3706]

The first time where i saw Charnett Moffett it was in the 90's with Ornette Coleman and Denardo ; what a bass player !!!

[@stevenartascos2918]

Holy Christmas.. that's Alot of notes!!!

[@Stepsister-qh1zk]

This smile...

[@firesoul3684]

真正的音乐家, 能看出他是一个多么纯粹热爱音乐,研究音乐的人,整体编排太棒了!

[@cestmirsembera4198]

To je něco neuvěřitelného, co člověk dokáže !!!!!!!

[@jg11x11]

The definitive version

[@dwightgaston6079]

My God with Bernard Purdie on the drums yet!

[@miguelpereira2885]

Incrível... Como este homem... músico... Não é mais reconhecido como um gênio da música mundial.

[@robertochaves9305]

He can't stop.

[@VictorECooper1]

There's Vaughan Clapton Hendrix and a host of other masters but NOW THERE'S JORDAN . . . WOW!

[@alvinngan2697]

In awe. Simply amazing.

[@daniyarzagit9765]

Best best best , having great time and pleasure to watch how genuis discover the sound universe

[@luizfernandon.bogado4837]

Wonderful

[@darkcnotion]

Amazing

[@dannyjohnstone777]

Amazing!!!!!!!!

[@patrickventurini5407]

Great!!!!!! I love... As a musician ❤❤❤❤😂😂

[@peterpigna9505]

Fenomeno

[@chilledmonkeebrains]

With a pick in his hands SJ sounds like a lot of guys…but man when he puts both hands on the fretboard…he’s sublime and in touch with heaven itself ❤❤

[@TheFredster-dk1bi]

Omg why so little views!?!! If only more people realized this talent 😭

[@jonathanmoon86]

I said that years ago but Eddie was more famous?....

[@audible67]

Because it's dated and dull?

[@Maga2024lul]

It sounds lame and sloppy. Techniques are not everything. I wouldn't watch this guy live for free!

[@michaelgraham9774]

​@@Maga2024lulI wouldn't watch you live if I was paid lol

[@bobbybroom]

👏🏿👏🏿

[@ishko108]

There's only one Stanley Jordan... nuff said.

[@alexandrealbuquerque4227]

HEAVEN!!!

[@Joecuzzi]

First thought it was a bass until the 2nd solo then realized it's a stand up piano on the 3rd solo!

[@pongga4957]

Good come from Thailand

[@marconioi8145]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@wangmandoo859]

Solo with one hand!!!

[@fredsaid777]

What did I just see? RARE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@FRATZROCKET]

Eddie Van Who? Just saw Stanley recently and he is of another world.

[@jonathanmoon86]

I keep saying this. Eddie was in the right band at the right time. Very similar style

[@zeppelin01024]

I don’t think any of these people in the audience are aware that they were watching three musical titans jam to the greatest song of all time. They probably thought these were just some random dudes.

[@CrossroadsGarwoodNJ]

Oh they knew! Such a Sick show...

[@nicovila]

Im from Argentina....I had the privilege of seeing him in Bs As 6 years ago, he was playing guitar with one hand and piano with the another hand in the same time...and he was singing too...alone in the stage...Amazing

[@Carl-b1q]

Not the greatest song of all time, thats a ridiculous, statement.

[@MFlexman]

Probably not.

[@srimaddukuri]

@@Carl-b1qno, it’s the greatest. He’s right about that. Wrong, however, to assume the audience didn’t know what they paid for.

[@zankfrappawdeezil5566]

at first i just did not comprehend what he was doing with his hands, just had to go "oh right, magick"

[@Mike-bp2hh]

"How can less be more? That's impossible, more is more." Yngwie Malmsteen

[@markfrost2707]

i disagree....beethoven was the MASTER of a thing called SILENCE...its a powerful musical tool. Just because you can--doesn't always mean you should

[@Mike-bp2hh]

​@@markfrost2707 Beethoven's best work is the silent parts

[@michaelgraham9774]

​@@Mike-bp2hhSays a lot about someone when the best thing they can do is stop playing lol

[@tupac777]

The best guitar player ever. Hands down.

[@tupac777]

If Stanley Jordan was a white man playing like this,my God they would build statues of him, Black people are a great race of people, could it be that's why we're so hated? Jealousy is embedded along with hatred in the white man's psyche

[@u.v.s.5583]

That has to be Roy Marchbank or Shawn Lane. But this guy is in his own league, writing his own rules and sticking to them. He was better (more impressive) in the 1980ies though. Watching today this stuff played today is good, but not jaw dropping amazing as he was in the 80-ies. I will give him shitloads of credit though for he invented this and carried it to outer reaches of the imaginable.

[@Washington-Dreaming]

I would say that Andres Segovia was the greatest and Paco de Lucia was up there. Stanley Jordan is surely on the top-100 list though.

[@deddiev1718]

He added some Dazed and Confused licks in there. He is an amazing musician.

[@octaviusdelmonte9019]

I don't know why some fairly well-established band hasn't picked up Stanley (as a hired gun) like was done with Vai, etc.

[@RavnerRavner]

Because you can't put a leash on a dragon

[@DNA2000-8bit]

He is always at least playing the part of three musicians, at a minimum. Nobody is close to his unique ability.

[@charlesdlowery77]

😮

[@scalafandrus1006]

stupendus

[@wegap2012]

Glad to hear this is a spontaneous jam. ‘Cause the drummer clearly didn’t know the original arrangement, which is mind blowing. So it gets real messy at times. But Mr Jordan is the Real McCoy even at 60.

[@dachanist]

Arrangement? There's no arrangement dude. There's no sheet music. This is improv over a rock standard in the style of Stanley Jordan. Jordan was discovered as a NYC busker and The drummer is so prolific as a studio cat that he has his own beat named after him - The Purdie Shuffle.

[@wangmandoo859]

I feel so little when I watch him play. Also, I don't think he even needs to look at the fret board!

[@iviedhaiku6832]

diffused the light of milk drops the darkness forgive my ego * разпръсна светлината на млечни капки тъмнината прости ми его

[@WhiteDove73-888]

Stanley Clark & Stanley Jordan it’s like the same soul playing their instruments

[@arosalesmusic]

Frank Gambale and Allan Holdsworth would be proud!

[@DDELFIERRO]

I believe this is the ONLY version of Stairway allowed to be played at Guitar Center

[@jairushughes2884]

His tapping style is more like playing piano on the guitar. Like many other great musicians you only get one Stanley Jordan.

[@CursedLemon]

Stanley Jordan's guitar playing is almost as good as his hair

[@armindofontana5107]

😂

[@Sjp64656]

I’ve never heard this jazzed up version. I prefer the original article. I guess I’m just old and set in my ways.

[@russellnotestine6436]

Get's a lil' messy here and there.. still it's amazingly wonderful

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

When the drummer has never heard "Stairway to heaven" 3:55

[@davidhoffman5820]

Hey Paige if you are watching this, stick a white flag on your guitar.

[@sobat_inspirasi]

I'm not sure Stanley will love that kind of action. Although maybe Jimmy acknowledged the greatness of Stanley's guitar skills. Isn't Jimmy Page is inspirator and idol for many world guitarists, including Stanley. Many guitarists want to be like Jimmy Page, other than become themselves. How ever, Stairway to Heaven is a masterpiece from Jimmy Page. So it feels inappropriate for a copycat to claim to be more powerful than his first creator. Moreover, Stanley Jordan is a very humble guitarist. You can see it from the interview with him on youtube. Both are great in their own league.

[@audible67]

What an ignorant comment.

[@bryanyankulov3162]

In my opinion this is nothing more than a perversion of a Classic Rock and Roll Masterpiece. When it nolonger can be recognized it is simply just a bunch of licks strung together 😮

[@axetu]

It is still easily recognized. It's an interpretation, but that's the guys act.

[@charlestaylor1043]

How is Eddie van halen so famous and I've never even heard of this guy??

[@TheFredster-dk1bi]

I margine if he was to play this at a guitar store 😂

[@junkjunk2493]

jimi cried ...

[@Kurecify]

Stanka Džordan.

[@WhereIsPancakesHouse]

Stanley plays the piano on a guitar neck

[@jmitch6764]

You have to coordinate all three halves of your brain to do that. I have tried. And I am missing something.

[@ВячеславКондратенко-ф9е]

Кто это???

[@arosalesmusic]

They just might let him play that at Guitar Center.

[@raphaelbernard7954]

Does his hair indicate he is a friend of Dorothy?

[@tonebrennan8475]

Stanley’s got nothing on Scotty Mishoe!

[@MetalMetz88]

5:46 why he have to try to be a basic guitar player with a pick for a minute...

[@Washington-Dreaming]

Stanley Jordan was probably like Mozart in “Amadeus” when Stanley worked out this arrangement. “Well, that’s nice. But it doesn’t seem to go anywhere. Hmm. Did you try this?” then he blew the lid off the original. Meanwhile Jimmy Page seethed with anger.

[@melonfive]

개판이네 역시 리즈시절 따로잇네

[@飯田淳一-m6v]

マニアック過ぎる技法のためか、過小評価にならざる得ないのが残念です。また来日して下さい。

[@jameslittlewood7663]

Jordan’s awesome but this is ropey by his usual standard

[@rastafaaa1073]

En mi opinión...lo que hace es destrozar las versiones que hace...tocar todo el tiempo tapeando ABURRE...por eso la larga fila de guitarristas que podrian y pueden hacer esto no lo hacen...TOCAR TODO EL TIEMPO ASÍ ABURRE.

[@stevefaure415]

Stanley is a mind-blowingly talented and original guitarist. Like, no kidding huh? But by his impossibly high standards this performance seems a little sloppy to me. He's flubbed quick a few notes and there's some buzzing with his left hand. Just not quite on his game this night I'd say.

[@gmel4967]

What's going on? I was watching this guy well over 30 years ago and his effects board was all foot activated. Him screwing around with it by hand is distracting, unprofessional and just, weird?

[@markfrost2707]

And he RUINS the end.......I HATE "over playing"

[@georginathompson3788]

Has he become transgender?

[@coffeegator6033]

Just sayin', Ralph Macchio woulda lost against this guy