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Chris Botti
Christopher Botti or Chris Botti - a trumpeter and musician, was born in Portland, Oregon on October 12, 1962. He plays a Martin Committee trumpet and uses a 3-silver plated mouthpiece. Botti had the honors of studying under David Baker and Bill Adam at Indiana University.

Botti ? with 8 recorded eight solo albums, he has had the privilege of performing with artists such as Sting, Frank Sinatra, Chaka Khan, Andrea Bocelli, Jill Scott, Steven Tyler, The Blue Nile, Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Dave Koz, Jeff Lorber, David Torn, Roy Hargrove, Paul Simon, Clark Terry, Lee Ritenour, Renee Olstead, Paula Cole and Brian Culbertson.

Botti has his own radio show - Chill with Chris Botti, focuses mainly on "chill" music, which is described as "smooth jazz with a touch of cool jazz."

In 2006, Botti won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for "What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life?" (Chris Botti & Sting) Billy Childs, Gil Goldstein & Heitor Pereira.

Botti is a gifted composer, indeed a brilliant musician and a magnetic performer who has created a series of recordings ruling out in the world of contemporary jazz. Through his thoughtful improvisations and innovative sense of creating music, Botti has earned both critical acclamation and mainstream appreciation.

Botti's latest album, To Love Again, is an anthology of pop jazz standards and has nine superstar guest vocalists, is a worthy successor to Botti's last RIAA gold-certified album, When I Fall In Love. ?To Love Again?, displays Botti's matchless velvet tone and awe-inspiring trumpet phrasings on 13 newly recorded pop and jazz standards featuring nine stand-out vocal performances by some of the greatest singers in modern pop, jazz, and rock. After the first week of release the album debuted in the Billboard Top 200 in the #18 chart position promising great things.

?To Love Again? also features Guest vocalists Sting, Paula Cole, Michael Buble, Jill Scott, Paul Buchanan, Gladys Knight, Renee Olstead, Rosa Passos, and the famous Steven Tyler and in his latest album, Botti is joined once again by the London Session Orchestra, provide multifariousness to already sumptuous music.

The Dual Disc edition of To Love Again features exclusive behind-the-scenes footages of the album along with interviews and studio performances and more.

To Love Again follows the extraordinary success of Botti's groundbreaking last album, When I Fall In Love, selling more than 500,000 copies thus far.

Released on September 28, 2004, When I Fall In Love ?a classic romantic jazz, quickly reaching #1 on both the Traditional Jazz albums sales chart and the Top Jazz overall album sales chart. Album Sales chart spent an incredible 17 weeks at #1. Botti's When I Fall In Love also spent four weeks as the #1 album on the Jazz Overall Album Sales chart.

Shortly after the release, When I Fall In Love made an astonishing leap from #146 to #37 on the Top 200, the biggest single week's sales leap of any traditional jazz album recorded by an instrumental artist to be released in the SoundScan era.

Botti's alliance with Sting--who sings with 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-and-a-half years. Botti has worked with Joni Mitchell, Natalie Merchant, and distinguished film composer John Barry, among others. Botti joined Paul Simon's band in 1990, where he remained for the next five years, and, in 1995, he recorded his solo debut, First Wish. After scoring the 1996 film "Caught," Botti, in 1997, made his second LP, Midnight Without You, which was followed by Slowing Down the World two years later. His 2002 watershed album, Night Sessions, peaked at #2 on the Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart while his seasonal collection, December, released the same year, hit #7 on the same chart.

Released in September 2003, A Thousand Kisses Deep entered at #20 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and hit the #3 position on the Contemporary Jazz chart.

Chris Botti first musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher. He studies music under exceptional teachers: David Friesen in the Northwest, Dave Baker in Indiana, and--following Botti's move to New York City in 1986--the late trumpet master Woody Shaw.

When Paul Simon set out on a 15-month world tour in 1990, Chris became a key-player in a backing group that combined Brazilian and African players with New York session veterans like Randy Brecker, Richard Tee, and Steve Gadd. Botti's solo debut, First Wish, was released in 1995; his second effort, Midnight Without You (a collaboration with English ambient pop group the Blue Nile) appeared in 1997 and was followed by Slowing Down The World in 1999. The Academy Award-winning film composer John Barry cast Chris as the featured soloist in his orchestral score Playing By Heart; Chris himself composed and performed the score for the Robert M. Young film "Caught."

In the studio and on stage, Chris Botti worked with such leading singer-songwriters as Marc Cohn, Joni Mitchell and Natalie Merchant; as a sideman, he has appeared on dozens of albums, compilations and soundtracks.

In October 2002, Chris released the holiday theme album December. This 13-track collection combined joyful interpretations of seasonal standards contemporary songs in the Christmas spirit, including Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and "Perfect Day" by Richard Marx. On the promotional trail in support of December, Botti appeared on "The Caroline Rhea Show" (WB network). He was invited to return the next day?then promptly hired as Rhea's on-air partner, and thus Chris became a part of "The Caroline Rhea Show" for five months.

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