Stanley Jordan & Jackie Venson at Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant

Tickets are available online until 4pm the day of the performance.  Any further sales must be completed in-person at the Will Call Desk. We are not affiliated with any third-party sellers. Thank you—see you soon!
”To see and hear Stanley Jordan play guitar is to witness higher-level instrumental performance.” —Roanoke Times
"[Venson is] poised to launch into the stratosphere." - Austin 360
In a career that took flight in 1985 with commercial and critical acclaim, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan has consistently displayed a chameleonic musical persona of openness, imagination, versatility and maverick daring. Be it bold reinventions of classical masterpieces or soulful explorations through pop-rock hits, to blazing straight-ahead jazz forays and ultramodern improvisational works—solo or with a group—Jordan can always be counted on to take listeners on breathless journeys into the unexpected.Key to Jordan’s fast-track acclaim is his mastery of a special technique on the guitar’s fretboard. Instead of conventional strumming and picking, Jordan's innovative "touch technique" is an advanced form of two-handed tapping. While a handful of other players use similar techniques, Stanley’s fluid, multi-layered textures and sheer virtuosity raise the bar for excellence. But his technique, though impressive, is always a means to a musical end....

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Tickets are available online until 4pm the day of the performance.  Any further sales must be completed in-person at the Will Call Desk. We are not affiliated with any third-party sellers. Thank you—see you soon!
”To see and hear Stanley Jordan play guitar is to witness higher-level instrumental performance.” —Roanoke Times
"[Venson is] poised to launch into the stratosphere." - Austin 360
In a career that took flight in 1985 with commercial and critical acclaim, guitar virtuoso Stanley Jordan has consistently displayed a chameleonic musical persona of openness, imagination, versatility and maverick daring. Be it bold reinventions of classical masterpieces or soulful explorations through pop-rock hits, to blazing straight-ahead jazz forays and ultramodern improvisational works—solo or with a group—Jordan can always be counted on to take listeners on breathless journeys into the unexpected.Key to Jordan’s fast-track acclaim is his mastery of a special technique on the guitar’s fretboard. Instead of conventional strumming and picking, Jordan's innovative "touch technique" is an advanced form of two-handed tapping. While a handful of other players use similar techniques, Stanley’s fluid, multi-layered textures and sheer virtuosity raise the bar for excellence. But his technique, though impressive, is always a means to a musical end.
Jordan has received four Grammy nominations. His 2011 album Friends was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. L.A. Times jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote, “Genius is a word often tossed around in musical circles, but it has been rightfully applied to Stanley Jordan.” 
Jackie Venson is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter known far and wide for her beautifully complex music and blazing guitar skills. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Jackie has traveled the world playing to crowds both as a headliner and as support for major acts such as Keb’ Mo’, Gary Clark Jr, Aloe Blacc, Melissa Etheridge, and Citizen Cope, to name a few.
In 2021, she released Love Transcends, her first studio album centered around the blues, and at the start of 2023, she released Evolution of Joy, a re-imagining of her breakout album Joy. 
With the uncertainty of the times we're living in, one thing holds true for Jackie Venson: she's going to play her music, speak her truth, and spread as much joy as she can doing it.
LEARN MORE: https://www.stanleyjordan.com/LEARN MORE: https://jackievenson.com/
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