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Chris Standring

Over the course of five CDs, guitarist Chris Standring has distinguished himself in the contemporary jazz realm with adventurous and lyrical compositions leavened with pure-pop perfection, dazzling guitar solos and thick beats. His jazz leanings and riffs have always been in the foreground, but he expanded his sound with rock, blues, R&B and electronic elements. With his sixth CD, Blue Bolero, Standring returns with a left-turning musical project so daring in its scope but still so true to his sound that it's destined to be one of the year's most-discussed projects, while certainly sure to be remembered in years to come as a highlight of the guitarist's works

Sunlight

By CHRIS STANDRING

Label: Ultimate Vibe
Released: 2018
Track listing: Static In the Attic; Aphrodisiac; Love Street; The Revisit; No Explanation; God Only Knows; Like Paradise; Moon Child; Do Not Adjust Your Set; The Principle of Pleasure; Static In the Attic (reprise).

Chris Standring: Sunlight

By JEFF WINBUSH

When building a house, who's more important? The architect who designs it or the working stiff that puts hammer to nail? Trick question. They're both important and when it comes to playing that guitar thing, Chris Standring is a working stiff. The world needs working stiffs. The world can't run on dreamers alone. It ...

Ten

By CHRIS STANDRING

Label: Ultimate Vibe
Released: 2016
Track listing: Ready Steady Flow; Snake Oil; Magic Carpet Ride; Carousel; Like This, Like That; Soul Vibration; Bossa Go Go; Parisian Blue; A Piece of Cake; Never Too Late

Chris Standring: Ten

By JEFF WINBUSH

Eight years have passed since Chris Standring's Love and Paragraphs (Ultimate Vibe, 2008) when he last met expectation as a seasoned, if not splashy smooth jazz guitar slinger. Then Standring had something of a musical epihamy where he became simultaneously restless and ambitious. The result was the lavish Blue Bolero (Ultimate Vibe, 2010), a radical departure ...

Chris Standring: Don't Talk, Dance!

By CHRIS STANDRING

Label: Ultimate Vibe
Released: 2014
Track listing: Sky High; Inside Outside; Sneakin’ Out the Front Door; Voices In My Head; Soul Symphony; Another Fine Mess; Crazy Bom Baizy; Ride; Absolute Madness; Yesterday’s Heaven; Imagine That; Scatterfunk; Nothing Lasts Forever

Chris Standring: Don't Talk, Dance!

By JEFF WINBUSH

If jazz is to avoid being relegated to the pit of obsolescence where VCR's, pet rocks and NBC's fall lineup for the last five years has been consigned to it won't be enough to simply continue catering to the true believers and faithful die-hards that currently maintains the genre. Jazz will have to go places it ...

Electric Wonderland

By CHRIS STANDRING

Label: Ultimate Vibe
Released: 2012
Track listing: Pandora's Box; Almost September; All That Glitters; Oliver's Twist; Wishful Thinking; Heart of the Matter; Escapade; Merry Go Round; Castle In the Sky; Nightingale's Bridge