Best-selling jazz trumpeter Chris Botti whose What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life? won a 2006 Grammy award, will co-headline a series of shows with the legendary American funk ensemble Earth, Wind & Fire beginning July 18 in Boston as part of the trumpeter's ongoing 2006 tour (see itinerary following).A full concert version of the critically-acclaimed Chris Botti Live with Orchestra & Special Guests, which is being aired as part of this year's PBS Pledge Week, is slated for DVD release on Tuesday, August 29. Columbia Records will release a new edition of Chris Botti's best-selling holiday album, December, premiering several new tracks including I Really Don't Want Much for Xmas, featuring Eric Benet on vocals, on Tuesday, October 17.
Chis 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 ... "
During March Pledge Week, Chris Botti visited several local PBS affiliates including New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, and the New Jersey State Network to help support his PBS Pledge Drive special, Chris Botti Live with Orchestra & Special Guests (check your local listings). Funds raised during the debut broadcasts of Botti's concert special rivaled the totals generated by some of PBS pledge drives' most popular musical events. A major success across the country during the March Pledge Week, Chris Botti Live with Orchestra & Special Guests has been re-airing during June and may be seen later this year as part of PBS's August and December Pledge Weeks. In recent years, the PBS pledge drive specials have served as bellwether events, helping to establish mainstream visibility for top caliber musical artists including Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, and Charlotte Church.
Chris Botti has been steadily developing a reputation as one of the nation's most compelling jazz artists. In a review of Botti's performance at the JVC Jazz Festival show at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times wrote," the blond, dapper Mr. Botti, from Portland, Ore., belongs to a long line of trumpeters who are also popular entertainers. His recent album, To Love Again (Columbia), features ... trumpet-and-voice collaborations with Sting, Michael Buble, Jill Scott and (in the most unlikely team-up) Steven Tyler. Mr. Botti ... and his band, whose main man, the pianist Billy Childs, alternated between synthesizer and acoustic piano, performed sprawling, echo-heavy arrangements of songs ranging from Leonard Cohen's Thousand Kisses to Flamenco Sketches from Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, the classic record that started it all."
Chris Botti Tour Dates
June 24 - Charleston WV @ University Of Charleston
June 28 - London UK @ Ronnie Scotts
June 29 - London UK @ Ronnie Scotts
June 30 - London UK @ Ronnie Scotts
July 01 - London UK @ Ronnie Scotts
July 02 - Glasgow UK @ Royal Bank Glasgow Festival
July 08 - Montreal Que @ Montreal Jazz Festival
July 11 - Istanbul Turkey @ Istanbul Jazz Fest
July 12 - Istanbul Turkey @ Istanbul Jazz Fest
July 13 - Warsaw Poland @ Park Sowinskiego
July 14 - Poznan PO @ Stary Bowkar
July 15 - Montreux Ch @ Montreux Jazz Festival
July 16 - Rotterdam Ne @ North Sea Jazz Festival
July 18 - Boston MA @ Bank One w/EWF
July 20 - Wantagh NY @ Jones Beach Amph w/EWF
July 21 - Holmdel NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center 2/EWF
July 22 - San Francisco CA @ Davis Symphony Hall 2
July 23 - Bethel NY @ Bethel PAC
July 24 - Saratoga Springs NY @ SPAC w/EWF
July 30 - Detroit MI @ Meadow Brook Music Festival
Aug 01 - Cleveland OH @ Tower City Amph w/EWF
Aug 02 - Columbus OH @ Germain Amphitheatre w/EWF
Aug 04 - Portland OR @ Mt. Hood Jazz Fest
Aug 06 - Wallingford CT @ Chevrolet Theatre w/EWF
Aug 08 - Bethlehem PA @ Muzikfest
Aug 09 - Chicago IL @ Charter One w/EWF
Aug 10 - Kettering OH @ Fraza Pavilion w/D. Sanborn Band
Aug 11 - Atlanta GA @ Chastain Park
Aug 12 - Dallas TX @ Smirnoff w/EWF
Aug 13 - San Antonio TX @ Verizon w/EWF
Aug 18 - Irvine CA @ Verizon w/EWF
Aug 19 - Canandaigua NY @ PAC
Aug 21 - Jacksonville OR @ Britt Fest w/ Symphony
Aug 22 - San Diego CA @ Bayside w/EWF
Aug 23 - Santa Barbara CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl w/EWF
Aug 24 - Concord CA @ Chronicle Pavilion w/EWF
Aug 25 - Park City UT @ Park City Jazz Fest
Aug 26 - Phoenix AZ @ Cricket w/EWF
Aug 28 - Denver CO @ City Lights w/EWF
Aug 29 - Denver CO @ Botanical Gardens
Sept 01 - Charlotte NC @ Verizon Wireless Amph w/EWF
Sept 03 - Tampa FL @ Ford Amphitheatre w/EWF
Sept 04 - West Palm Beach FL @ Sound Advice w/EWF
Sept 06 - Vienna VA @ The Filene Ceneer-Wolftrap
Sept 08 - Staten Island NY @ St. George Theatre
Sept 16 - Henderson NV @ Lake Las Vegas Resort
Sept 17 - Monterey CA @ Monterey Jazz Festival
Sept 26 - San Francisco CA @ Bloomingdales Openining Gala
Sept 29 - Saratoga CA @ Via Montalvo
Sept 30 - Kalamazoo MI @ James Miller Auditorium
Oct 01 - Vancouver BC @ Chan Center
Oct 02 - Edmonton AL @ Winspear Centre
Oct 03 - Calgary AL @ Knox United Church
Oct 04 - Winnipeg Man.@ Burton Cummings Theatre
Oct 05 - Ottawa Ont. @ Centre Pointe Theatre
Oct 06 - Toronto Ont.@ Wintergarden Theatre
Oct 08 - East Lansing MI @ Wharton Center
Oct 12 - Rehoboth Beach DE @ Rehoboth Jazz Fest
Oct 13 - Newark NJ @ NJPAC
Oct 14 - Troy NY @ Troy Music
Oct 18 - Idaho Falls, ID @ TBA
Oct 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre
Oct 25 – Singapore @ Victoria Theatre
Oct 26 – Philippines @ TBA
Oct 27 - Manila Ph @ Greenbelt Park
Oct 28 - Cebu Ph @ TBA
Oct 29 - Taipei Taiwan @ Taichung Jazz Festival
Oct 30 - Hong Kong HK @ Hong Kong City Hall
Nov 18 - Atlantic City NJ @ Hilton Hotel/Casino TBA
Dec 19 - New York NY @ Blue Note
Dec 20 - New York NY @ Blue Note
Dec 21 - New York NY @ Blue Note
Dec 22 - New York NY @ Blue Note
Dec 23 - New York NY @ Blue Note
Dec 24 - New York NY @ Blue Note
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