Stanley Jordan Lets the Eagle Fly: A Fourteen-Year Silence, a Decade-Old Vault, and One Hail Mary

Forty years after Magic Touch sat a record 51 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s jazz chart, Stanley Jordan is finally releasing “Flight of the Eagle,” his first original in fourteen years and the second single from Feather in the Wind, is out now on African Rose Records. In this exclusive, Paul Salfen catches him near Wichita talking touch technique, the night he opened for Wynton Marsalis and Maynard Ferguson, B.B. King on “Riders on the Storm,” and why the new album is about constancy after loss. Tour dates are live. The full record is due this fall.