Event Listing - Music

Fri Sep 26, 2008

Chris Botti

Location	Date and Time
The Mountain Winery 14831 Pierce Road Saratoga, CA 95070 map cross street: Vintage Road district: Saratoga	Fri Sep 26, 2008 (Doors at 5:30pm, Show at 7:30pm)

Description

With the new album Italia, Chris Botti "has created a suite of songs and music nspired by the romance of Italy, each track conveying different aspects of that romance while the album flows with an overall conceptual integrity. Allowing thie 'love of slov moving orchestral pieces' to work through the album's arrangements, song choices, tone and melodic phrasing, Botti and his musicians have succeeded in conjuring an album of evocative atmospherics linking the worlds of jazz and pop and classical music.

Italia comes from a place Botti calls 'the other kind of jazz,' the muse-grid that inspired conceptually coherent works like Miles Davis' 'Sketches of Spain' and 'Kind of Blue.' 'They had an unbelievable amount of restraint put into the architecture,' says Botti of those recordings. 'There's not a lot of improving on Italia, it's about the concept, the phrasing and how it's recorded. There's a lot of high wire act, almost classical trumpet playing on the album.'"

- chrisbotti.com