Precious Gems by Phil Keaggy & Friends

"Phil, Stanley, and I all share a common interest in the power of music for healing, so when we were all in Nashville at the same time, we decided to get together and improvise some tracks towards an album designed to encourage healing in various ways. Armed with only the spirit of healing at heart, many of the tracks are completely free improv.

When I listen to those tracks now, I feel that same optimism and openness to the music that we felt as we were playing together those couple of days."
—Muriel
https://murielanderson.com/now

“I believe it was back in 2002, my good friend and guitarist extraordinaire, Muriel Anderson, let me know that her friend Stanley Jordan was coming to our town and asked if I would like to meet and possibly play and record something together. I said, enthusiastically yes, and we met up at my place, hooked up mics and DI’s for guitars and proceeded to create right on the spot.

I've never heard or seen a talent quite like Stanley! Just to watch and listen to his style is beyond description. His fingers literally dance upon the fretboard and he has a musical vocabulary that is full of depth and dedication!

I was still using Adat machines at the time. All went down very nicely! We had good musical conversation with our guitars and our styles were quite complementary one to the other. Some of the tunes wound up on a project called "Uncut Gems."

Years went by and as I was reflecting on those days, I revisited the recording tracks we did and was delighted to hear us playing together again, as it were!

With Muriel’s beautiful classical and fingerstyle and Stanley’s unique gift, I’m excited to finally release these moments of inspiration for you to hear, along with some bonus tracks as well"

—Phil
https://philkeaggy.com