About
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 muisc 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 at the 2013 55th
Grammy Awards. 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.
