Talk:Balawan

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:11, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Balawan and Stanley Jordan
A note about the following two sentences: "Another notable player of this technique is Stanley Jordan, an American jazz/fusion guitarist. Balawan developed the same progression with Stanley Jordan, that he is able to produce a piano, bass and guitar at the same time using just one instrument." I first saw Stanley Jordan play in this style in the fall of 1977 when, as an 18-year-old freshman at Princeton University, he invited me up to his room--I was a junior, and a jazz guitarist--and played a range of songs for me, including "Impressions." He had completely mastered the eight-fingered technique; in fact, it would be fair to say that he had developed it--although he was quick to credit Emmett Chapman as his original inspiration. At that point, Balawan was four years old. As currently phrased, this article is misleading. It makes it sound as though Balawan and Jordan independently came up with this technique. That is untrue. Jordan pioneered this technique. Balawan discovered it much later. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.229.164.106 (talk) 03:04, 16 May 2016 (UTC)