Chris Botti
I started 2005 in Boston, seeing Chris Botti at Scullers Jazz Club. Today, he has ended my year, as I finished up my coffee watching the Saturday Early Show on CBS:
(CBS) Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and his band return to The Saturday Early Show's "Second Cup Cafe" to perform selections from his latest album, "To Love Again."
This year, Botti toured with Josh Groban. Botti is up for two Grammys in the categories of Best Pop Instrumental Performance (for "In Our Time," with Burt Bacharach) and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) (for "What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?" with Sting). The awards ceremony will be broadcast Feb. 8 on CBS.
Of his musical style, Botti has said, "It's about the sound of my trumpet and the melody I play."
Botti started playing the trumpet early on, but is very outspoken against marching bands. "I graduated school a year early so I could get out of marching band," he says. "The marching band is there to support sporting events; it's rarely about the music."
But being part of the band paid off. The band director turned him on to Miles Davis when Botti was 12, and Botti has idolizedDavis
Still, the thrill of his lifetime came when he played for Frank Sinatra during the 1985 tour. "It was his big comeback tour and he was singing beautifully at that time," recalls Botti, who was then 21.
In May 2004, Botti was named one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" and for that, the artist says, he gets teased relentlessly.
"It's so difficult in this day and age for instrumental artists to punch through into the mainstream," he says, turning serious, "so anything that helps is a good thing."
Second Cup Cafe: Chris Botti
This year, Botti toured with Josh Groban. Botti is up for two Grammys in the categories of Best Pop Instrumental Performance (for "In Our Time," with Burt Bacharach) and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) (for "What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?" with Sting). The awards ceremony will be broadcast Feb. 8 on CBS.
Of his musical style, Botti has said, "It's about the sound of my trumpet and the melody I play."
Botti started playing the trumpet early on, but is very outspoken against marching bands. "I graduated school a year early so I could get out of marching band," he says. "The marching band is there to support sporting events; it's rarely about the music."
But being part of the band paid off. The band director turned him on to Miles Davis when Botti was 12, and Botti has idolized
Still, the thrill of his lifetime came when he played for Frank Sinatra during the 1985 tour. "It was his big comeback tour and he was singing beautifully at that time," recalls Botti, who was then 21.
In May 2004, Botti was named one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" and for that, the artist says, he gets teased relentlessly.
"It's so difficult in this day and age for instrumental artists to punch through into the mainstream," he says, turning serious, "so anything that helps is a good thing."
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