Artist: Chris Botti
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Italia
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Live: With Orchestra And Special Guests
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
December
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
When I Fall In Love
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Night Sessions
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Slowing Down The World
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Midnight Without You
Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
To Love Again
Year:
Tracks: 13
Though best-known as a contemporary jazz performer, cornetist Chris Botti made his initial swash on the bug out music panorama. A native of Oregon, he started playing at the age of 10, and spell noneffervescent in high shoal began playing professionally. After studying in the prestigious Indiana University music program under the noted jazz pedagog David Baker, Botti resettled to New York, where he served with saxist George Coleman and trumpet neat Woody Shaw; under the counselling of producers including Hugh Padgham and Arif Mardin, he swiftly emerged as a highly regarded pop sitting player, lending his trumpet to recordings from figures including Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, and Thomas Dolby. In 1990, Botti was asked to join Paul Simon's band, where he remained for the next five geezerhood. Finally, in 1995, he recorded his solo debut, First base Wish, a criminal record combining the sounds of contemporary pop-jazz with the textures of artwork stone. After grading the 1996 cinema Caught, Botti resurfaced in 1997 with his irregular LP, Midnight Without You, which was followed by Slowing Down the World in 1999. Two days by and by, he was a featured soloist on Sting's Brand New Day human beings go, and that sentence allowed Botti to rediscover old melodic passions and create new ones. Night Sessions (2001), which was recorded in Los Angeles, captured such gaudy pop. That muse was explored further in 2003 with M Kisses Deep, and to a lesser extent on the more tradtional orchestral nothingness of 2004's When I Fall in Love. Since that sentence, Botti has released a handful of albums including To Love Again: The Duets in 2005, a reissue of his holiday album December in 2006, and Italia in 2007.
