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Chart-Topping Jazz Trumpeter Chris Botti & Special Guests - Including Sting
& Steven Tyler - to Perform Two Star-Studded Concerts at Historic Boston
Symphony Hall With Keith Lockhart & The Boston Pops Orchestra September 18
& 19
Josh Groban To Appear Thursday, September 18
Yo-Yo Ma To Appear Friday, September 19
Two Night Concert Extravaganza Planned As Follow-Up To The Phenomenal
Success Of 2006’s ‘Chris Botti Live with Orchestra & Special Guests’ PBS
Special/DVD
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 — The best-selling chart-topping
American jazz trumpeter and composer Chris Botti will join Keith Lockhart
and the Boston Pops on stage at Boston’s historic Symphony Hall for two
extraordinary concerts on Thursday, September 18 and Friday, September 19
at 7:30pm (both nights).
Both Sting and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler will be appearing with Botti
and the Boston Pops each night, performing a wide range of songs from
Botti’s recorded repertoire as well as a host of unexpected musical
delights. In addition to appearances by Josh Groban, slated for Thursday’s
concert, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, scheduled for Friday’s show, Chris has
invited some of the top names in contemporary music, a secret roster of
very special surprise guests to help make these concerts the year’s most
memorable.
“Chris Botti Live in Boston,” a remarkable music collaboration with
Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, will be broadcast nationally during the
PBS pledge drive in March 2009 with a DVD from the concert(s) and other
bonus items to be released exclusively through PBS during the pledge drive.
Columbia Records will release a live CD of the performances in November
2008, followed by the release of DVD and Blu-ray editions of the concerts
in the spring.
A limited number of tickets for each of the “Chris Botti Live in
Boston” concerts has been recently released for sale to the general public.
Please check your local ticket outlet for details.
“Chris Botti Live in Boston” promises to be a worthy successor to the
artist’s first PBS pledge drive special, “Chris Botti Live with Orchestra &
Special Guests.” First aired on PBS during March Pledge Week 2006, the
special became a perennial pledge drive favorite nationwide while a DVD of
that show has achieved RIAA platinum status.
About Chris Botti
Trumpeter Chris Botti is a gifted instrumentalist, a talented composer,
and a charismatic performer who–since the release of his first solo album
in 1995–has created a series of recordings which have made him a virtual
genre-of-one in the realm of contemporary jazz while at the same time
capturing the attention of the pop music world. Through his singular
combination of lush atmospheres and thoughtful improvisations, Botti has
earned both critical acclaim and mainstream appreciation for a succession
of best-selling albums including When I Fall In Love (2004, #1 Top Jazz
Album, #37 Billboard Top 200), To Love Again: The Duets (2005, #1 Top Jazz
Album, #18 Billboard Top 200), and Chris Botti Live with Orchestra &
Special Guests (2006, #2 Top Jazz Album).
In the studio and on stage, Chris Botti has worked with such leading
singer-songwriter/composers as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Sting and
renowned film composer John Barry, among others; as a sideman, he has
appeared on dozens of albums, compilations and soundtracks. His association
with Sting– who appeared on Botti’s 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 years.
In addition to receiving an RIAA gold-certification for When I Fall in
Love in 2004 and To Love Again (both produced by Bobby Colomby) in 2005,
“What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” (with vocals by Sting) earned a
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals. Since
then, Chris Botti has toured constantly, stopping only to tape “Chris Botti
Live with Orchestra & Special Guests,” a PBS Special and DVD, in Los
Angeles in December of 2005.
http://www.chrisbotti.com
http://www.columbiarecords.com
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