Chris Standring, Hip Sway - 1h 2m 57s

Tracks & Durations

1. Hip Sway	4:41
2. Glamour Girls	4:41
3. How Deep Is Your Love	4:00
4. Big Feet ... Big Shoes	4:16
5. What Is Is	6:44
6. Pins & Needles	4:48
7. Good Medicine	4:51
8. I'm Not In Love	5:00
9. Big Pant People	5:08
10. Smile	4:15
11. Ultraviolet	5:20
12. Small Talk	4:10
13. Georgina	4:56

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Review

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 ambience and the powerful soul touches of coproducer Rodney Lee. The title track finds Standring echoing his muted Wes Montgomery-bound melody with wah-wah punch lines, then duetting 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 tenorman Dino Soldo, while Lee does double duty on a Hammond B-3 solo over the synth-created vamp.

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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