Craig Linden Sharmat (born October 8, 1957) is an American musician.He composes music for television and film and is an accomplished guitarist whose work has been noticed in the smooth jazz charts.He has scored a wide variety of reality shows, animation, television commercials, and documentary movies.He has also played guitar on thousands of cues and backed up a number of commercial artists as guitarist and or arranger.He released his first jazz single in 2009, "So Cal Drivin"; the album of the same name was released later that year.His second album, Outside In, contains the song "Ease Up", which reached number two on the Billboard Smooth Jazz chart.