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| ITALIA Release date: 09/25/2007 1. Deborah's Theme From "Once Upon A Time In America" 2. Italia 3. Venice 4. The Very Thought Of You 5. Gabriel's Oboe 6. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face 7. Caruso 8. The Way You Look Tonight 9. It Never Entered My Mind 10. Ave Maria 11. Estate 12. Nessun Dorma |
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| ITALIA(Deluxe Edition CD & DVD) Release date: 09/25/2007 1. Deborah's Theme From "Once Upon A Time In America" 2. Italia 3. Venice 4. The Very Thought Of You 5. Gabriel's Oboe 6. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face 7. Caruso 8. The Way You Look Tonight 9. It Never Entered My Mind 10. Ave Maria 11. Estate 12. Nessun Dorma |
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| LIVE with Orchestra and Special Guests [Blu-Ray Video] Release date: 05/29/2007 1. Someone To Watch Over Me 2. When I Fall In Love 3. A Thousand Kisses Deep 4. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? 5. Good Morning Heartache 6. My One And Only Love 7. The Look Of Love 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. Pennies From Heaven 10. Are You Lonesome Tonight? 11. Lover Man 12. My Funny Valentine 13. Why Not 14. One For My Baby 15. Bows (Credits) 17. The Musicians 18. Interview with Chris Botti 19. Chris Botti and Sting Introduction 20. Message In A Bottle |
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| LIVE with Orchestra and Special Guests [DVD] Release date: 08/22/2006 1. Someone To Watch Over Me 2. When I Fall In Love 3. A Thousand Kisses Deep 4. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? 5. Good Morning Heartache 6. My One And Only Love 7. The Look Of Love 8. Cinema Paradiso 9. Pennies From Heaven 10. Are You Lonesome Tonight? 11. Lover Man 12. My Funny Valentine 13. Why Not 14. One For My Baby 15. Bows (Credits) 16. The Making of 'LIVE with Orchestra and Special Guests' 17. The Musicians 18. Interview with Chris Botti 19. Chris Botti and Sting Introduction 20. Message In A Bottle |
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| DECEMBER Release date: 10/10/2006 1. The Christmas Song 2. Ave Maria 3. Winter Wonderland 4. First Noel 5. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 6. Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) 7. I Really Don't Want Much For Christmas 8. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 9. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 10. Silent Night 11. Little Drummer Boy 12. O Little Town Of Bethlehem 13. I'll Be Home For Christmas |
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| TO LOVE AGAIN Release date: 11/22/2005 1. Embraceable You 2. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? 3. My One And Only Love 4. Let There Be Love 5. What's New? 6. Good Morning Heartache 7. To Love Again 8. Are You Lonesome Tonight? 9. Lover Man 10. I'll Be Seeing You 11. Pennies From Heaven 12. Here's That Rainy Day 13. Smile |
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| WHEN I FALL IN LOVE (CD & DVD) Release date: 05/31/2005 1. When I Fall In Love 2. What'll I Do? 3. No Ordinary Love 4. My Romance 5. Let's Fall In Love 6. Cinema Paradiso 7. Someone To Watch Over Me 8. La Belle Dame Sans Regrets 9. Nearness Of You 10. How Love Should Be 11. Make Someone Happy 12. One For My Baby 13. Time To Say Goodbye (Con te Partiro) |
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| WHEN I FALL IN LOVE Release date: 09/28/2004 1. When I Fall In Love 2. What'll I Do? 3. No Ordinary Love 4. My Romance 5. Let's Fall In Love 6. Cinema Paradiso 7. Someone To Watch Over Me 8. La Belle Dame Sans Regrets 9. Nearness Of You 10. How Love Should Be 11. Make Someone Happy 12. One For My Baby 13. Time To Say Goodbye (Con te Partiro) |
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| A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP Release date: 09/30/2003 1. Indian Summer 2. Do It In Luxury 3. The Look Of Love 4. A Thousand Kisses Deep 5. Ever Since We Met 6. Back Into My Heart 7. My Funny Valentine 8. The Last Three Minutes 9. If I Could 10. She Comes From Somewhere 11. Love Gets Old |
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| NIGHT SESSIONS: LIVE IN CONCERT(DVD) Release date: 08/06/2002 2. Lisa 3. Streets Ahead 4. Miami Overnight 5. In The Wee Small Hours 6. All Would Envy 7. Alone In The City 8. Regrooveable 9. Easter Parade 10. Why Not 11. The Facts About Jimmy 12. Steps Of Positano 13. Moon Over Bourbon Street 14. Blue Horizon DVD VIDEO MENU INFORMATION 1. Play Concert 2. Setlist 4. BONUS: 5. Photo Gallery 6. Interviews 11. Video Profile 12. Through An Open Window |
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| NIGHT SESSIONS Release date: 10/30/2001 1. Lisa 2. Miami Overnight 3. Streets Ahead 4. Interlude 5. All Would Envy 6. Best Time 7. When I See You 8. You Move Me 9. Blue Horizon 10. Light The Stars 11. Through An Open Window 12. Easter Parade |
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"To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever," muses the best-selling jazz artist Chris Botti when talking about his new album, Italia. "It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated, but when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to, then I think you're on to something You want the sophistication to lie in the purity of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of the performances."
With Italia, Botti has created a suite of songs and music inspired by the romance of Italy, each track conveying different aspects of that romance while the album flows with an overall conceptual integrity. Allowing his "love of slow moving orchestral pieces" to work through the album's arrangements, song choices, tone and melodic phrasing, Botti and his musicians have succeeded in conjuring an album of evocative atmospherics linking the worlds of jazz and pop and classical music.
Italia comes from a place Botti calls "the other kind of jazz," the muse-grid that inspired conceptually coherent works like Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain" and "Kind Of Blue." " They had an unbelievable amount of restraint put into the architecture," says Botti of those recordings. " There's not a lot of improvising on Italia, it's about the concept, the phrasing and how it's recorded. There's a lot of high wire act, almost classical trumpet playing on the album."
The songs on Italia are drawn from sources ranging from classical opera to the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone. Recorded in the United States, England, and Italy, Italia is a brilliant showcase for Botti's musical versatility as performer, composer and collaborator. The album includes the newly-composed title track featuring the passionate vocals of renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli as well as a new interpretation of "The Very Thought of You" with guest vocalist Paula Cole. "
In another of the album's duets, Botti and his ensemble accompany a vocal performance originally recorded in 1957 by the " forever cool" Dean Martin on "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face," a song first written for "My Fair Lady. " "We recorded it in the same room he recorded it in with the same gear at Capitol Studios," Chris explains. "It sounds like we were all there in the same room. I'm very pleased with that track."
The album includes Botti's interpretation of "Ave Maria," a tune he often uses to open his concerts. " It works so beautifully," he says, "that I wanted to include it on my Italia record. For me, the way to break up my solos on the trumpet is to have a voice every once in a while, whether it's Dean Martin or Andrea Bocelli or Paula Cole. The entrance of the 60 piece choir coming in on 'Ave Maria' is such a beautiful departure. "
On Italia, Botti re-imagines two beloved compositions -- "Deborah's Theme" (from "Once Upon A Time In America") and "Gabriel's Oboe" (from "The Mission") -- by the venerated Italian composer Ennio Morricone, recent recipient of an Honorary Academy Award® "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music."
Among the many treasures of Italia, Chris Botti creates a breathtaking new rendition of " Nessun Dorma" ("Let no one sleep") from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot." The song entered popular consciousness in 1990, when it was adopted as the official theme of the Italia '90 World Cup.
"The real force on the album," Botti offers, "is 'Deborah's Theme,' 'The Mission,' 'It Never Entered My Mind,' 'Italia,' 'Nessun Dorma,' where the style of trumpet playing has more classical elements than a jazz musician in a club. We try to make every song have a different feel to it but the overall record has a flavor, a thread. I believe the challenge is to make a record that's individual, finds an audience, and creates something that's meaningful to the listener."
Trumpeter Chris Botti is a gifted instrumentalist, a talented composer, and a charismatic performer who--since the release of his first solo album in 1995--has created a series of recordings which have made him a virtual genre-of-one in the realm of contemporary jazz while at the same time capturing the attention of the pop music world. Through his singular combination of lush atmos¬pheres and thoughtful improvisations, Botti has earned both critical acclaim and mainstream appreciation for a succession of best-selling albums including When I Fall In Love (2004, #1 Top Jazz Album, #37 Billboard Top 200), To Love Again: The Duets (2005, #1 Top Jazz Album, #18 Billboard Top 200), and Chris Botti Live with Orchestra & Special Guests (2006, #2 Top Jazz Album).
Botti is a native of Oregon who was born in Portland, raised in Corvallis, and spent two years of his childhood growing up in Italy. His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher. He began playing trumpet at age 9 and, after hearing a recording of Miles Davis playing "My Funny Valentine," realized the instrument was his key to "doing something meaningful with my life."
He pursued his music studies with a succession of outstanding teachers including Professor Bill Adam and Dave Baker in Indiana, and--following a move to New York City in 1986--the late trumpet master Woody Shaw.
"My music is more reined-in, because it's in a pop format. But this atmospheric quality is what I really loved about jazz, and on my earlier CD's I've tried to marry that feel to the textures and melodies you might hear on a record by Peter Gabriel or Bryan Ferry."
In the studio and on stage, Chris Botti has worked with such leading singer-songwriter/composers as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Sting and renowned film composer John Barry, among others; as a sideman, he has appeared on dozens of albums, compilations and soundtracks. Botti's association with Sting--who joins Botti on both To Love Again and When I Fall In Love--dates back to 1999, when the trumpeter joined the pop legend's band as featured soloist on the "Brand New Day" tour, which lasted two years.
"What is unique about him is that he has jazz chops and he comes from the world of jazz," Sting has said of Chris Botti. "He also has a very refined pop sensibility. He looks great and he presents himself well. He works hard, and you know, you see a star a mile off. So he was in my band for four years. He took the light. I'm very happy when people in my band take the spotlight and say, "Let me run with this ball," because I'll just stand back and I'll look good."
In addition to receiving an RIAA gold-certification for When I Fall in Love in 2004 and To Love Again (both produced by Bobby Colomby) in 2005, "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (with vocals by Sting) earned a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals. Since then, Chris Botti has toured constantly, stopping only to tape his own PBS Special and DVD in Los Angeles in December of 2005.
Chris Botti Live with Orchestra & Special Guests, shot December 1 and 2, 2005, over a Thursday - Friday run at LA's fabled Wilshire Theatre, inspired the Los Angeles Times music critic Don Heckman to write, "It was apparent, from the first notes Chris Botti played at the Wilshire Theatre on Friday, that the sold-out house was in for a special evening...Botti's latest album, 'To Love Again' -- as well as the previously released 'When I Fall In Love' -- features extraordinary lineups of vocal guest artists. Six showed up for the concert -- Sting, Jill Scott, Paula Cole, Renee Olstead, Paul Buchanan and Gladys Knight -- along with Burt Bacharach...despite the inevitable audience excitement generated by the appearance of such vocal headliners and despite the artists' diversity of interpretations, it was Botti's virtuosic trumpet work, his inventive melody-making, his engaging onstage presence and his powerful band ...that ruled the evening..."
One of the world's most popular concert attractions, Chris Botti toured with Diana Krall in 2007 and will be one of the featured guests in Andrea Bocelli's upcoming live concert special slated to air on PBS in the late fall of 2007. He currently maintains one of the busiest touring schedules monitored by the industry and the requests for television appearances, film scoring and other projects are on the rise as the sound of his trumpet is heard by more and more listeners around the world.
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NEW TOUR DATES POSTED
Posted: June 27th, 2008
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CHRIS PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN IN MONTREAL
Posted: June 27th, 2008
Chris performed "Hallelujah" and "1000 Kisses Deep" as part of a Leonard Cohen tribute in Montreal last night.
Check out The Gazette article here!
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CHRIS TO PERFORM AT THE GRAMMY FOUNDATION'S ANNUAL STARRY NIGHT GALA
Posted: June 19th, 2008
Chris will be performing as The Grammy Foundation honors Recording Academy Trustees Award recipient, six-time GRAMMY winner and legendary producer, arranger, composer and author George Martin!
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PHOTOS FROM SHANGHAI PERFORMANCE
Posted: June 12th, 2008
New photos of Chris' Shanghai visit have been posted!
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CHANNEL NEWSASIA MORNING SHOW INTERVIEW
Posted: May 20th, 2008
Check out Chris discussing "Italia" on Singapore television HERE!
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PROMOTIONAL TOUR OF ASIA
Posted: May 8th, 2008
Chris spent ten days in April traveling Asia promoting "Italia" as well as his upcoming Asia tour dates. Traveling between Shanghai, Taipei, Beijing, and Jakarta, Chris put in fourteen-hour days of radio, newspaper, magazine, and television interviews as well as a few television appearances!
SHANGHAI HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHOTOS
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PLAYING TO A WORLDWIDE AUDIENCE
Posted: April 29th, 2008
By: Ary Hermawan
Chris Botti deserves a stellar introduction. He is talented, was named one of People Magazine's
50 most beautiful people in 2004 and is now touring the world with his new album.
He is set to be the next instrumental star after Kenny G, Dave Koz and his idol Miles Davis.
He has played with big time stars like Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Burt Bacharach and Rod Stewart and had produced ten solo albums since 1995. Now, reaching a worldwide audience is on his mind.
"A lot of big jazz musicians don't care about reaching a worldwide audience. They want to go to a little club and play fast, `ting, ting, ting', and play a lot of notes, `la la la'. They care less about reaching out to the audience. That's why jazz, historically, has had this kind of `don't bother me' attitude," he told The Jakarta Post at the Shangri-La Hotel.
Continue reading at The Jakarta Post
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SHANGHAI DAILY NEWS
Posted: April 28th, 2008
By: Michelle Qiao
He looks great, sounds great and sells a lot of albums. But some jazz critics call
jazz trumpeter Chris Botti's sound "lounge music" and "easy-listening smooth jazz."
You decide at his debut, writes Michelle Qiao.
American jazz trumpeter Chris Botti has a perfect face and a perfectionist heart. Even to perform only four songs at a press conference on Tuesday for his Shanghai concert in mid-May, he insisted on renting a grand piano, invited Grammy-winning from the United States - all for a perfect effect.
Botti arrived well before meeting the press, rehearsing many times to tune his trumpet. He gestured to have the volume lowered just a little bit.
"Every musician is a perfectionist," he says. "Becoming a successful musician comes from practice and patience when no one else believes you."w
Critic Wang Shu from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music says Botti's music is best listened to on a drizzling night, lying on the sofa or driving on the road. Well, that's the perfect moment to enjoy the melodies flowing from a perfect-looking perfectionist.
Continue reading at Shanghai Daily
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TV APPEARANCES AND INTERVIEWS
Updated: April 28th, 2008
LARRY KING LIVE WITH ANDREA BOCELLI AND DAVID FOSTER
"THE VIEW FROM THE BAY" SAN FRANCISCO MORNING SHOW
CBS EARLY MORNING SHOW PERFORMANCE
NPR ON POINT "ITALIA" INTERVIEW
THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW: CHRIS AT THE BLUE NOTE
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NEWHOUSE NEWSWIRE GIVES "ITALIA" 4 STARS!
Posted: January 24th, 2008
Chris Botti, "Italia" (Columbia) 4 Stars.
You could start with a whole lot of discussion about Chris Botti's instrument of choice. You could debate it forever, but outside of the jazz spectrum, few trumpet players have been able to cross the cultural divide to mainstream acceptance. As radical as he could be musically, Miles Davis is the most obvious success story. And as predictable as he could be, Herb Alpert was another, though like most of the rest of the universe he was light years away from Davis in terms of talent. So it's tough to make it in 2008 as a trumpet player. Chris Botti has broken through the stereotypical expectations and then some. Since his 1995 debut, the instrumentalist has been extremely successful on both the jazz and pop charts. And with what Sting has termed his "refined pop sensibility," Botti scores another standout in this homage to Italy. From the slow, moving and majestic album opener "Deborah's Theme," through a divine duet with Paula Cole on "The Very Thought of You," to the richly expressive "The Mission," and even the reverent but predictable "Ave Maria," Botti never misses his mark. The one exception is arguably his "duet" with the late Dean Martin on "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face," which smacks of commercial ambition, but otherwise, this is another solid addition to Botti's impressive catalog.
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