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"Chris, recently I was listening to our local jazz station WZJZ 100.1 in
Fort Myers Florida and they played your song "Love & Paragraphs".
Let me just say that it is, in my opinion, the most beautiful song I've ever heard!
It just brings me a sense of pure joy and happiness. I would like to know when
you are going to be in Florida. Our area is really big on Jazz, and I would love
to hear you live. Looking forward to seeing you very soon. Take care and keep
the hits coming! - Jorge Cardona
"Chris, Just got to say I just discovered you and your music in an airport
shuttle ride of all places! I was up very early heading to the airport yesterday
morning in Orange County, California after completing a two day seminar and the
shuttle driver had nothing to say but had on a music station that I prayed would
say who you were when the music was over. They did. I had a pen but paper in the
back of the shuttle so I scribbled all over my hand! It was your Love and Paragraphs
hit and I immediately got home and went to the store and ended up getting some
of your past work because they don't have your new release in the small town I
live in yet. I'm going on and on about you to everyone I know! Your music just
makes you feel good. Huge new fan! WAY TO GO! You're amazing!" Mark Weber
"chris-- Soul Express is heavenly. I've been listening to jazz guitarists
for nearly two decades and rarely, if ever, can I recall being entranced from
BEGINNING TO END. I've only recently discovered you but friends and family will
be receiving your album as a gift, because they NEED to hear you. This album is
extraordinary. Sublime. I'm going to find out if the laser in a CD player can
actually burn a hole in a cd! Ilisten to all the "monsters", Montgomery, Benson,
Metheny, Ritenour, Carlton, White, Santana, Klugh, Malone, and now I'm adding
a new name to my list...Standring! keep up the phenomenal playing and composing...you've
got a new fan". --Dan
"Chris - just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your CD Soul Express.
I have bought many CDs before and I have never owned one that I liked all the
songs on the CD. I cannot say which one is my favorite, but I absolutely love
this CD. I listen to it at least twice a day and it never gets old to me. I look
forward to future CD’s from you. - Steve"
I heard "Love & Paragraphs" exactly 4 days ago on a Baltimore radio station. I
was like, "holy crap, who was that! Give me a name, please!". Then I heard
it again, Friday. I noted the time and looked up the station on-line and got a
play list. Guess who is now registered to get a copy? Wow! Love the tune. Best,
SaintFu
Message: HELP... I can't stop listening to Love and Paragraphs! It's addictive...
At 53 years old, by now I have a lot of favorite songs. This song has replaced
every one of them. It's so uplifting. It makes people so happy they start dancing
around like the girls. You're a genius! I can hardly wait for you to visit Dallas
Texas. I'll mortgage the house to see you play! AWESOME work, keep it up.
Pete O
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- I'm totally blown away by your Blue Bolero album!. Now I have to get the rest
of 'em. The record is so "Chris". It is on my Ipod now. Thank you for
the "eargasm". There aren't that many left in the world. It was also
very uplifting. Your sound and technique are off the chain. I ain't gonna say
no more 'cause I could go on and on about it. - Phil Upchurch, recording
artist and guitarist with Michael Jackson, George Benson and many more.
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"Replete with the intoxicating west coast vibe that Standring
effortlessly incorporates into much of his work...certain
to get in your head and not go away...Standring’s soulful guitar shimmers
throughout...the stuff of which musical dreams are made...delivers another absolute
stunner...a joy from beginning to end...all set to be one of the sensations of
the year - Smooth Jazz Therapy
"Full
of catchy hooks and sublime electric guitar playing with a cohesive style that
fits just right. Love & Paragraphs carries on the guitarist's trademark style
- improvisational jazz sensibilities built around perfectly crafted pop songs"
- Brian Soergal, Smooth Jazz News
"These compositions complements
guitar funkness with ease. Chris came to play! And his "groove patrol"
flanked his playing style all the way through the record. I feel this is (Soul
Express) Chris's best album to date! This CD has a good long standing Groove to
it. Its Strong! Track after Track, these songs were placed musically in conjunction
to each other perfectly. Hey..Just let the whole album play! Chris on this disc
reminds me of the old days when George Benson played on CTI back in the 70's."
- Terrill J. Hanna, Contemporary Jazz.com
"Groovalicious
is Chris Standring's throwback to an era where disco was only the queen in music.
Groovalicious is king!" - Norm Breest, Jazz Review.com
"When
I check out new tracks, I listen for four things: production, performance, songcraft,
and - most importantly - groove. Chris' "Miss Downtown Sugar Girl" flies
off the scale on each one. It's one of those rare, infectious, incredible songs
that makes everyone who I've played it for nod their head and say "day-am!"
If I need to pump up the pace of my mix show or energize a crowd when I'm spinning
in a club, "Miss Downtown Sugar Girl" is my go-to secret weapon. With
a song this scorching, I can only imagine how hot the actual "sugar girl"
is who inspired it!" - Rafe Gomez/The Groove Boutique
"Chris Standring is one of Britain's most talented jazz guitarists, as anyone
who listens to his album Shades Of Cool (Passion jazz) will agree." -
Mike Bradley, London Times
"Hip
Sway beautifully invokes a sense of old-school jazz sensibilities mixed with acid-jazz
ambience." - Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide/Jazziz
"From
Wes Montgomery infected octave melodies, to funky wah-wah pedal laced rhythm parts
to some tasteful blues based licks, Standring covers it all and with authority."
- Darin Scott, Tune Up Magazine
"Standring
integrates himself among the musically elite and develops a style all his own."
- Tina Salazar, Gavin
"Listen
to the killer hook in the title track on Hip Sway (enhanced by Richard Elliot's
sax) and just try not to be swept away by Standring's lyricism." - Brian
Soergel, Smooth Jazz Vibes
Standring
has produced a winner - The catchy tunes on Hip Sway solidify Standring as a pioneering
guitarist of this new decade. - this person knows the meaning of 'cool' - Hip
Sway establishes many swinging moods and feelings, which are delectable and vast."
- Fred Scott, ContemporaryJazz.com
"Benson-like
precision and technique, and brilliant vibe-intensive production." -
Jonathan Widran, Jazziz
"Chris
Standring's 'Steven' (Instinct) is a song we believed in from the first listen.
It has all the elements, simplicity, elegance, top-notch production values, and
a melody you get right away, the kind of melody you could be humming after just
one play. It sounds like the kind of song that will not only work today, but will
also be in our library a year or two from now. We moved "Steven" right
into our power rotation - four plays a day - after hearing it just a couple of
times on the air." - Blake Lawrence, Radio & Records/KKSF San
Francisco
"Chris
Standring's debut album on " Instinct Records " is one of the primest
CDs I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. - one of the finest debuts to
come in a long time." - Smooth Jazz Vibes
"Standring
has both taste and discipline. He is the most promising jazz guitarist to emerge
from England since Ronnie Jordan and Peter White." - Larry Hollowel,
WJCD 105.3 FM
"Some
of the best guitar work around." - Smooth Jazz 105.9
"One
of my favourite guitarists!" - Peter White
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