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Chris Standring – special artist edition

Create studio-quality Soul, Jazz, Funk tracks to your own chords in minutes with this special artist edition of the award-winning SessionBand app – the world’s only chord-based loop app.

Chris Standring is one of America’s most prolific urban jazz artists. With 7 Billboard #1s and 13 solo albums to his name, the legendary guitarist is joined by one of the world’s most renowned drummers Chris Coleman (Babyface, Prince, Chaka Kahn, Christina Aguilera…) and top UK bassist and producer Geoff Gascoyne (Sting, Van Morrison, Georgie Fame…) to create this special artist edition of the app. It’s our biggest and best to date. More styles, more channels and more chord variations plus a host of new tech features and upgrades to make your songwriting quicker and even more awesome.

With over 20,000 precision-cut, chord-based loops (included in the download), the app instantly converts the chords you select into great-sounding audio – wherever you are and whatever your ability.

Alongside a list of pro features like automated mixing, auto-transpose, one-touch live recording and a range of export functions, there are new features with this edition including 7 stunning effects per channel, ‘Track Builder’ to construct songs even quicker, PDF generator to produce chord sheets and a number of new editing and preview enhancements.

SessionBand Soul, Jazz, Funk – Chris Standring special artist edition is a professional app – essential for anyone learning soul jazz music and perfect for soul jazz musicians looking for the ultimate play-along. But equally, it’s simple enough for non-musicians who love soul, jazz funk to create their own great-sounding, copyright-free music and share it with the world – even if they don’t play a note!

FX Suite
 

New with the Chris Standring Artist Edition, a fully featured FX suite including Amp Simulator, Chorus, Flanger, Parametric EQ, Delay and Reverb – each effect with its own independent settings.

Chris Standring

Guitar

LA-based Chris Standring has been synonymous with soul jazz for over 20 years, topping the Billboard contemporary jazz charts 7 times with his characteristic retro soul, jazz & funk vibe.

With over 16 studio albums he has collaborated with everyone from Mica Paris, Bob James and John Novello to Jody Watley and Carole Bayer Sager. Chris is known for his heavy use of 1970’s-style musical nuances and pushing stylistic boundaries to new and fresh directions.

In this first, dedicated artist edition of SessionBand, Chris employs rich orchestration through signature strings and keyboards to deliver 18 soul, jazz & funk styles that reflect the very best of the Chris Standring diverse sound…  More

Chris Coleman

Drums

One of the best and most closely watched drummers on the planet, Chris Coleman has played with some of the biggest acts in R&B, pop and jazz including Beck, Chaka Kahn, Prince, Patti LaBelle, Christina Aguilera, Babyface and New Kids On The Block.

A Sonor artist drum legend, Chris lends his signature precision and power to all 18 styles in the SessionBand Soul, Jazz & Funk app…  More

Chris Coleman

Drums

One of the best and most closely watched drummers on the planet, Atlanta-based Chris Coleman has played with some of the biggest acts in R&B, pop and jazz including Beck, Chaka Kahn, Prince, Patti LaBelle, Christina Aguilera, Babyface and New Kids On The Block.

A Sonor artist drum legend, Chris lends his signature precision and power to all 18 styles in the SessionBand Soul, Jazz & Funk app…  More

Geoff Gascoyne

Bass and Production

UK bassist, composer and producer Geoff Gascoyne is a hugely accomplished name in world jazz having performed on over 100 albums with the likes of Sting, Van Morrison, Georgie Fame, Guy Barker and Jamie Cullum to name but a few.

Geoff has produced 8 of the most recent SessionBand apps but going stateside to produce this one has been his most exciting to date…  More

Chris Standring Videos

Is There A Doctor In The House? – from the 2020 album Real Life

Love Street – from the 2018 album Sunlight

Bossa Blue – from the 2010 album Blue Bolero

Chris Standring Albums

Chris’s latest album ‘Real Life‘ was released on 20th March 2020

REAL LIFE

2020

BEST OF CS REMIXED

2019

SUNLIGHT

2018

LIVE IN LONDON

2017

TEN

2016

DON'T TALK, DANCE!

2014

ELECTRIC WONDERLAND

2012

SEND ME SOME SNOW

2011

BLUE BOLERO

2010

LOVE & PARAGRAPHS

2008

SOUL EXPRESS

2006

GROOVALICIOUS

2003

HIP SWAY

2000

VELVET

1998

SOLAR SYSTEM

1996

MAIN COURSE

1989

COMPLETE WORKS

1989 – Present