Yeah, I found the album on YouTube (after querying Discogs by song title and looking at a buttload full of hits) and matched the cut exactly.
I figured it was an older guy - or maybe even a really stealth smooth player - because of the way he worked his tone. Some people call it "worrying" a note, but this is more than that, it's more simply a vocalizing of the notes. It's not at all flat-lined - not only did the accents bob and weave, the tone does too.
Personally, that what I look for in music of any kind, And this has it!