For those unaware, guitarist Chris Standring steps into 2024 with As We Think, an upbeat eleven song set featuring his top flight LA rhythm section, horn section and special guests.

Noted as being a super soulful workout with exotic arrangements, dazzling solos, all wrapped up in Chris’ inimitable contemporary jazz style, a proven hitmaker with 10 number one radio singles to his name, Chris Standring continues to carve out his unique brand and sound, setting himself apart stylistically from all others in the genre.

1. Chocolate Shake (3:58)
2. Good Gracious (5:11)
3. Come Closer (4:11)
4. Top Hat & Tails (3:44)
5. Alphabet Soup (4:25)
6. Bedtime Story (4:26)
7. Michael’s Watch (4:52)
8. This Life (4:07)
9. Monday Madness (4:35)
10. Swings & Roundabouts (4:28)
11. Too Good To Be True (3:39)

This brilliantly sculpted, elegantly-hued new recording opens on the pulsating, 70’s-sensed Chocolate Shake and the smoothly-grooved Good Gracious and then brings us the luxuriant Come Closer, the gentle foot tapper Top Hat & Tails and the funky Alphabet Soup.

Along next is the bewitching gossamer of Bedtime Story and the free flowing Michael’s Watch and they are in turn followed by the Reggae-tinged This Life, the album rounding out on the poplicious Monday Madness, the ambient Swings & Roundabouts, closing on the dutiful opulence of Too Good To Be True.

After playing in the jazz and hip-hop band Solar System, Standring debuted as a solo artist with 1998’s “Velvet” album. A dozen years later, he scored his first of seven Billboard No. 1 singles with “Bossa Blue,” which also was Billboard’s contemporary jazz track of the year.

Standring notched an additional four more Billboard No. 1 singles as a featured guest soloist on singles by Thom Rotella, Cindy Bradley, Rick Braun and Richard Elliot. Eager to explore the unconventional and unexpected, he’s challenged himself by recording a live album in London with an orchestra and a collection of standards culled from the great American songbook that he recorded at the famed Abbey Road Studios.

Mixing things up literally last year, Standring issued a remixed set of his more sensual tracks titled “The Lovers Remix Collection.”

A popular performer on concert and festival stages throughout the U.S. and Europe, Standring is eager to share the joy, positivity and celebration he infused into the music on “As We Think” during his concert itinerary that presently contains dates through October.

www.chrisstandring.com