Chris Standring

Chris Standring is an English-born smooth jazz and soul jazz guitarist from Buckinghamshire, whose playing draws heavily on 1970s musical touches. Before going solo with "Velvet" (1998) he played in SolarSystem, a band mixing jazz and hip-hop. His "Bossa Blue" was named Billboard's contemporary jazz track of 2010, and the album "Sunlight" (2018) topped the US Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.