Chris Botti. Night Sessions

Artist: Chris Botti
Album: Night Sessions
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Columbia
Genre: Jazz
Type: MP3
Quality: 320 Kbps
Size: 120 MB

01. Lisa
02. Miami Overnight
03. Streets Ahead
04. Interlude
05. All Would Envy - (featuring Shawn Colvin)
06. Best Time
07. When I See You
08. You Move Me
09. Blue Horizon
10. Light the Stars
11. Through an Open Window
12. Easter Parade

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Chris Botti - A Thousand Kisses Deep (2003)

Artist & Band: Chris Botti
Title Of Album: A Thousand Kisses Deep
Year Of Release: September 30, 2003
Label: Sony
Studio/Live: Studio
Genre, Style: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Type, Quality: mp3, CBR 320 kbps; Covers
Total Time: 45:43
Total Size: mp3 - 105.25 MB

Chris Botti's sixth album is a wonderfully, even perfectly crafted group of originals and covers that accent his deep crossover appeal as both a jazz and pop musician. Botti's phrasing is very keen, uncanny in the way it works with simple rhythmic structures, and his tone is rich and warm. His use of keyboards and drum loops is pretty much up to the minute in terms of its hip factor, and his arrangements appeal to serious jazz fans and are something akin to blessed-out ecstasy to smooth jazz aficionados. Therein also lies the problem. Botti hasn't significantly developed his sense of artifice since his debut album and, if anything, has delved deeper into its oh-so-cool bachelor pad faux elegance than ever on A Thousand Kisses Deep. The title track, a very moving song written by Leonard Cohen, is the finest moment on the disc. A spare guitar backdrop is adorned simply; Botti plays the melody in short, clipped staccato phrases for an entire full verse before the rhythm section enters. The effect is haunting, lushly romantic, and full of a sensual warmth that is as spooky as it is silky. The spare keyboards and brushed drums offer the song as something slightly Latin (thanks to the gorgeous guitar playing by Dean Parks). It could have been the love theme in Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon a Time in Mexico -- yes, it really does feel slightly mariachi! Burt Bacharach's "The Look of Love," despite a marvelous vocal by Chantal Kreviazuk, suffers from cute syndrome -- as does "The Last Three Minutes," another Bacharach tune. The straight pop stuff, such as "Ever Since We Met" with Bridget Benenate's breathy vocals, work very well. Botti's solo entwines the refrain and carries the singer's voice along into the ether. A duet with pianist Billy Childs on "My Funny Valentine" feels a tad stilted, but there is great tension resolution in the third chorus. "If I Could," another original, with the great Smokey Hormel on guitar in addition to Parks, is a true mood-setter. Smoky, slightly steamy with just a hint of a funk backdrop and Botti whispering through the pastel keyboard sounds with his own shade of deep blue and gauzy elegance, it's the babymaker on the album. In all, as with each of Botti's recordings, there is nothing inherently wrong here, and the formula is successful; it's one of the better mood records out there, but it's still formula, contrived and calculated to establish and keep the listener paying some degree of attention, but not too much.

Song title:
01. Indian Summer - 03:37
02. Do It In Luxury - 03:45
03. The Look Of Love - 05:16
04. A Thousand Kisses Deep - 03:59
05. Ever Since We Met - 05:08
06. Back Into My Heart - 04:14
07. My Funny Valentine - 03:10
08. The Last Three Minutes - 03:31
09. If I Could - 04:33
10. She Comes From Somewhere - 05:08
11. Love Gets Old - 03:17

Chris Botti - Slowing Down The World (1999)

Artist & Band: Chris Botti
Title Of Album: Slowing Down the World
Year Of Release: June 22, 1999
Label: Polygram Records
Studio/Live: Studio
Genre, Style: Jazz, smooth jazz
Type, Quality: mp3, CBR 320 kbps
Total Time: 49:38
Total Size: mp3 - 113.64 MB

Trumpeter Chris Botti is unique among the musicians you'll hear on smooth-jazz radio. Although Slowing Down the World was liberally strewn with synth-pad undercoatings, the main thrust is real-time, acoustic instruments doing the atmospheric work on top. Botti tapped veterans from L.A.'s studio scene, such as Bob James, Jeff Lorber, and Peter Erskine, for the date, but what shines most of all is the gentle arc of his own horn's sound. It's easy to see why pop stars like Paul Simon and Sting have recruited Botti for their tours. And it's easy to hear that this young trumpeter has his own take on the pop-jazz blend.

Song title:
01. Irresistible Bliss
02. The Look
03. Drive Time
04. In the Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (feat. Sting)
05. The Open Touch
06. Under A Painted Sky
07. Why Not
08. The Place Between Us
09. Same Girl
10. Where I'm Calling From
11. Letting Go

Chris Botti - Midnight Without You (1997)

Artist & Band: Chris Botti
Title Of Album: Midnight Without You
Year Of Release: May 20, 1997
Country: USA
Label: Polygram Records
Studio/Live: Studio
Genre, Style: jazz, Smooth jazz
Type, Quality: mp3, CBR 320 kbps
Total Time: 46:58
Total Size: mp3 - 107.55 MB

Song title:
01. The Steps Of Positano
02. Midnight Without You
03. Regroovable    
04. Never Gone
05. The Way Home
06. When Rain Falls
07. Until Now
08. Mr. Wah
09. Forgiven
10. Alone In The City