Guitarist, composer and producer for TV, film and advertising.

About

Chris Nordlinger is a guitarist, composer and producer in Los Angeles with more than 60 placements across television and national advertising. He produces songwriters and artists out of his studio in Los Angeles.

The work spans rock, pop, country, soul and jazz. That range comes from a jazz education and twenty years of paying gigs. On any given week that means a thirty-second cue for an agency, guitar overdubs for a producer in another city, or a full record for an artist.

He grew up in Santa Monica, started on classical piano at seven and switched to guitar at thirteen, playing in the jazz bands at Crossroads School. He studied privately with the late Ted Greene, who gave him one of his Telecasters. He went on to USC's Thornton School of Music as a studio and jazz guitar major, studying with session guitarist Carl Verheyen.

After graduating he spent two years in Nashville writing and playing sessions, co-writing with the late Mark Grey of Exile, who wrote Alabama's "The Closer You Get", and playing guitar for producer Josh Leo. Back in Los Angeles, he leads a band, plays sessions and produces.

Whether the brief is thirty seconds or a full album, the job is the same: serve the picture, serve the song, hit the deadline.