Vol. 1 Chris Botti

• 1 Danny Boy 02:51
• 2 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 05:18
• 3 Two For The Road 03:52
• 4 Paris 04:19
• 5 Blue In Green 03:27
• 6 Someday My Prince Will Come 04:43
• 7 Time On My Hands 06:26
• 8 My Funny Valentine 06:13
• 9 Fix You 04:13
• 10 Old Folks 05:50
• Total Runtime 47:12

Info for Vol. 1

Weniger ist mehr” lautet eine Binsenweisheit. Dass die immer wieder den Nagel auf den Kopf trifft, beweist „Vol. 1“, das neue Album von Chris Botti, einem der erfolgreichsten Trompeter der Welt. Botti hat in seiner bisherigen Karriere als Begleiter mit einer erstaunlichen Anzahl von Superstars aus Pop und Crossover aufgenommen, und zu seinen eigenen Alben, von denen einige Gold- und Platinstatus erreichten, ebenfalls berühmte Gäste und symphonische Begleitung eingeladen. Auf seinem Blue-Note-Debüt fährt er solcherlei Aufwand jetzt rigoros zurück und präsentiert sich nur mit einer kleinen, aber feinen Besetzung. Das Ergebnis ist pure musikalische Magie.

„Vol. 1“ führt Chris Botti – auf dem bekanntesten Jazz-Label der Welt – zurück zu seinen Jazz-Wurzeln. Seine fast meditativen, tiefenentspannten Interpretationen von Standards und Balladen wie “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, “Old Folks”, “My Funny Valentine” und “Someday My Prince Will Come” arbeiten die melodische Schönheit der Originale heraus, Botti umkreist sie mit elegantem Trompetenton, fast so als würde er auf seinem Instrument singen.

Chris Botti, Trompete
Esteban Castro, Klavier
Taylor Eigsti, Klavier
Joshua Bell, Geige
Leonardo Amuedo, Gitarre
Shane Fontayne, Gitarre
Patrick Warren, Streicher
Zach Moses, Bass
Thomas Morgan, Bass
Vinnie Colaiuta, Schlagzeug
John Splithoff, Gesang

Chris Botti
Since the release of his 2004 critically acclaimed CD When I Fall In Love, Chris Botti has become the largest-selling American instrumental artist. His success has crossed over to audiences usually reserved for pop music and his ongoing association with PBS has led to four #1 jazz albums, as well as multiple Gold, Platinum and Grammy Awards. Most recently, his latest album Impressions won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album. Performing worldwide and selling more than four million albums, he has found a form of creative expression that begins in jazz and expands beyond the limits of any single genre.

Over the past three decades, Botti has recorded and performed with the best in music, including Sting, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Josh Groban, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Bublé, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, John Mayer, Andrea Bocelli, Joshua Bell, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and even Frank Sinatra. Hitting the road for as many as 300 days per year, the trumpeter has also performed with many of the finest symphonies and at some of the world’s most prestigious venues from Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House and the Real Teatro di San Carlo in Italy.

Impressions, Botti’s 2012 Columbia Records and Grammy winning release, is the latest in a stellar parade of albums – including When I Fall In Love (2004), To Love Again: The Duets (2005), Italia (2007), and the CD/DVD Chris Botti in Boston (2009) – that has firmly established him as a clarion voice in the American contemporary music scene. Playing with his uniquely expressive sound and soaring musical imagination, Botti is joined on the disc by featured artists Andrea Bocelli, Vince Gill, Herbie Hancock, Mark Knopfler, and David Foster in a warm, intimate celebration of melodic balladry.

With Impressions and the albums that preceded it, Chris Botti has thoroughly established himself as one of the important, innovative figures of the contemporary music world.

GRAMMY-winning trumpeter Chris Botti has been one of the most popular instrumentalists in the world for nearly three decades; he’s collaborated with some of the biggest superstars on the planet, including Sting, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell, Steven Tyler, Andrea Bocelli, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma, and others; he’s topped the jazz charts with numerous albums, earned multiple Gold and Platinum records, performed with symphony orchestras and on prestigious stages from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House.

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