BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sunvalley Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sunvalley Events X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Boise BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Boise BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:193767@sunvalley DTSTAMP:20260524T005716Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20260802T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20260802T213000 SUMMARY:Chris Botti DESCRIPTION:GRAMMY-winning trumpeter Chris Botti has been one of the most p opular instrumentalists in the world for nearly three decades\; he’s coll aborated with some of the biggest superstars on the planet\, including Stin g\, Paul Simon\, Barbra Streisand\, Lady Gaga\, Tony Bennett\, Frank Sinatr a\, Aretha Franklin\, Bette Midler\, Joni Mitchell\, Steven Tyler\, Andrea Bocelli\, Herbie Hancock\, Yo-Yo Ma\, and others\; he’s topped the jazz c harts with numerous albums\, earned multiple Gold and Platinum records\, pe rformed with symphony orchestras and on prestigious stages from Carnegie Ha ll to the Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House.\\n\\nIn short\, Chris B otti really needs no introduction. Yet with his Blue Note Records debut\, h e’s offering one anyway. Vol.1 is in many ways a fresh start for the trum peter. Having successfully crossed over from jazz renown to pop stardom\, B otti’s first album in more than a decade finds him crossing back\, with a small group project focused on acoustic jazz and classic standards.\\n\\n I turned 60 in 2022\, at a time that seemed like a restart for so many th ings in the world\,” Botti says. “I wanted to strip away all the orches tral arrangements and special guests and focus more on my playing\, the pla ying of my band\, and these jazz classics that we always love playing on st age.”\\n\\nWhile Botti could boast of the major names with whom he’s sh ared stages\, this project allows him to share his enthusiasm for the jazz greats past and present that excite him – his conversation is peppered wi th references to everyone from Miles Davis to Keith Jarrett to Pat Metheny to Brad Mehldau. He points to landmark albums like Davis’ Kind of Blue\, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman\, or Metheny’s duo outing with Charlie H aden\, Beyond the Missouri Sky as models for the kind of “lifestyle” mu sic he set out to make – music that is exquisite on its own but can also set the scene for a coffee shop or hotel lounge\, instantly generating a so phisticated mood.\\n\\nOf course\, Botti couldn’t have found a more ideal home for this artistic rebirth. Blue Note has been a standard-bearer of ja zz throughout its storied history\, and the trumpeter found a receptive par tner in label president Don Was. “Anyone that's lucky enough to say they' re on Blue Note Records should be pinching themselves\,” Botti says. “I t's a fantastic honor. I had great runs on Verve and Columbia\, so it’s a mazing to now arrive on the most famous traditional jazz record label.”\\ n\\nNot that Vol. 1 is a complete about-face – longtime fans will immedia tely recognize Botti’s glowing tone and regal melodicism\, as well as his flair for investing the narrative of a song with high drama and vibrant em otion. “There’s a cinematic quality that I like to hear in music\, and that I’ve found that audiences really love\,” he says. “The essence o f that remains on this album. It’s paramount to me that there is incredib le beauty and elegance to all of the performances and the way they’re rec orded.”\\n\\nBotti has assembled a stellar group of collaborators to achi eve that blend of beauty and elegance for the album. The album was produced by the legendary David Foster\, whose staggering list of credits includes three Beatles\, Michael Jackson\, Barbra Streisand\, Michael Bublé\, Diana Krall\, Mariah Carey\, Madonna\, Herbie Hancock\, Aretha Franklin\, Dolly Parton and countless others.\\n\\n“David commands so much respect from th e musicians that he didn’t have to say much\, but he would navigate the s ession in a very subtle way\,” says Botti of the producer\, who also cont ributed the lush\, moving piano intro to “Danny Boy” that sets the tone for the album.\\n\\nBotti has enjoyed a long collaboration with pianist Ta ylor Eigsti\, while bassist Zach Moses\, keyboardist Julian Pollack\, and s axophonist Chad Lefkowitz-Brown are all members of his regular touring band . Veteran drummer Vinnie Colaiuta rounds out the core band.\\n\\nThey’re joined by a number of excellent musicians\, including Israeli guitarist Gil ad Hekselman\, whose atmospheric\, cascading lines grace the Rodgers & Hart classic “Bewitched\, Bothered and Bewildered”\; classical violinist Jo shua Bell\, who brings a striking passion to Botti’s stark rendition of My Funny Valentine”\; Uruguayan-born guitarist Leonardo Amuedo\, whose years in Brazil are reflected in his graceful soloing on Henry Mancini’s “Two for the Road” and the bossa nova feel he brings to “Time On My H ands”\; pianist Esteban Castro\, whose delicate restraint belies his yout h on “Old Folks”\; and singer-songwriter John Splithoff\, who contribut es and performs his romantic song “Paris.”\\n\\nAbove all\, it’s Bott i’s clarion\, heart wrenching trumpet that seizes he spotlight throughout Vol. 1. From the way he sings the yearning melody of “Danny Boy” to th e keening\, airy melancholy of his Harmon mute playing on Miles Davis’ Blue In Green”\; the hushed tenderness he brings to Coldplay’s “Fix You” or his shimmering flurries on “Someday My Prince Will Come\;” Bo tti leaves no doubt of his mastery or his ability to speak directly from th e soul of the instrument.\\n\\nThe title of Vol. 1 implies a new beginning\ , but perhaps even more promising is the fact that it also hints at a Vol. 2 – and beyond. “I'm so looking forward to that possibility\,” Botti concludes. URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/chris-botti/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR