To Love Again by Chris Botti: Smooth Jazz CD Review
by Lee Dennis, a.k.a. SmoothLee
Chris Botti, trumpeter extraordinaire has done it again.
Following the hugely successful CD When I Fall In Love with his latest
release, To Love Again.
The smooth jazz world super talent Botti has
earned frequent comparisons to
Miles Davis and Chet Baker and has seemingly found a successful formula for
turning out superb CD's.
Click to hear MP3
samples of each song on To Love
Again by Chris Botti.
In the past in addition to touring with Sting, Botti has played sideman to Paul Simon,
Natalie Merchant, Joni Mitchell, and dozens more.
Contributors on the To Love Again includes an amazing
line up of music industry heavy hitters. Names like Sting, Michael Buble,
Paula Cole, Gladys Knight, Jill Scott, Renee Olstead, Rosa Passos and Steven
Tyler, with the London Session Orchestra conducted by Jeremy Lubbock, Billy
Childs and Gil Goldstein. Plus a few others as well.
Overall To Love Again is an collection of jazz
standards, mostly old school traditional music. My thoughts are if you like traditional music standards, this should
be in your collection.
Chris Botti's rendition of the Billie Holiday classic
Good Morning Heartache, with Jill Scott singing may be even better
than the original rendition of the same song.
While this entire CD is outstanding the truly
standout tunes and SmoothJazz247.com favorites are Embraceable You [track 1], What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? - Featuring Sting
[track 2],
and Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Featuring Paul Buchanan [track 8]. My SmoothLee Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore
[...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 10, I'll Be Seeing You - Featuring Billy Childs. Very nice!
Release Notes:
Chris Botti originally released To Love Again on
October 18, 2005 on the Sony record label.
CD track list follows:
1. Embraceable You
2. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? - Featuring Sting
3. My One And Only Love - Featuring Paula Cole
4. Let There Be Love - Featuring Michael Bublé
5. What's New?
6. Good Morning Heartache - Featuring Jill Scott
7. To Love Again
8. Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Featuring Paul Buchanan
9. Lover Man - Featuring Gladys Knight
10. I'll Be Seeing You - Featuring Billy Childs
11. Pennies From Heaven - Featuring Renee Olstead
12. Here's That Rainy Day - Featuring Rosa Passos
13. Smile - Featuring Steven Tyler
To listen to samples of each song on To Love
Again by Chris Botti go to:
Chris
Botti CD - To Love Again Samples
Lee Dennis, a.k.a. "SmoothLee" is an AVID music fan, smooth jazz in particular, and in addition to writing CD Reviews for
I Love Smooth Jazz.com
can also be heard during his
radio show which airs daily online at Smooth Jazz 24/7
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