Chris Standring - Hip Sway

Release Date: Feb 22, 2000
Recording Date: 1998-1999
Label: Instinct
Format/Quality: MP3 / 320 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Joint Stereo
Time: 62:55


~ Track List ~

01. Hip Sway (4:41)
02. Glamour Girls (4:41)
03. How Deep Is Your Love (4:01)
04. Big Feet...Big Shoes (4:17)
05. What Is Is (6:44)
06. Pins & Needles (4:48)
07. Good Medicine (4:51)
08. I'm Not In Love (5:01)
09. Big Pant People (5:08)
10. Smile (4:15)
11. Ultraviolet (5:20)
12. Small Talk (4:11)
13. Georgina (4:57)

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~ Notes / Reviews ~

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Continuing in the vein of his 1998 CD, Velvet, is the thickly blues-based and more self-assured Hip Sway. Beautifully invoking a sense of old-school jazz sensibilities, Hip Sway mixes acid-jazz ambient and the powerful soul touches of co-producer Rodney Lee. The title track finds Standring echoing his muted Wes Montgomery-bound melody with wah-wah punch lines, then duet casually with the eager tenor of Richard Elliot before exploding into an irresistible brassy hook--all over Lee's moody blue synth harmony. "Glamour Girls" features a propelling vamp reminiscent of Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder" under Standring's note-for-note duet with tenor man Dino Soldo, while Lee does double duty on a Hammond B-3 solo over the synth-created vamp. Amazon.com Fast forwarding to the present, Standring invokes a bit of ambient master Brian Eno on "What Is Is," as he and Lee exchange distant, distorted melody lines over a spaced-out synth wash as Dave Karasony's train-track drum patter continues to hypnotize. Ditto the gentle hypnosis on a cover of 10cc's mystical "I'm Not in Love"; Standring doesn't do much improvising with the melody, but his alternating guitar tones and the enveloping atmosphere--complete with barely audible synth horns--are just like, well, Velvet. – Jonathan Widran

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Guitarist Chris Standring, a young upstart, earned some smooth-jazz radio play last year with the single "Cool Shades" from his debut album, "Velvet." Standring's sophomore effort, "Hip Sway" (Instinct), finds him continuing to draw on the '60s groove-guitar styles founded by Grant Green. It also draws on more recent trends like drum 'n' bass and features guest artists like Richard Elliot." --- Jazziz Magazine, 2000

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