Thousand Kisses Deep, A - Chris Botti

Advantages: It's real music....
Disadvantages: Region 1 only

...During a 10-week lay- off while on tour with Sting for his "Brand new Day" album, the featured solo artist on the tour Chris Botti rented a house in the Hollywood Hills to write and record his "Night Sessions" album, 4 weeks to write and 6 weeks to record and mix. With this short period of time Chris said, " he felt energized by the challenge" he asked his friend Kipper (who won a Grammy for his production on Sting's album Brand New Day) to co-write and produce, they stated to write and at the end of the writing sessions only recorded the material as the lights of the L.A. basin began to glow and as the sun set and only stopped when the sun came back up the next morning. On December the 3rd 2001 Chris Botti took to the stage of the "EL REY" theatre in L.A. to celebrate the release of the "Night Sessions" album, his first release... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: This is cool music
Disadvantages: It may take a few plays.

...For his 1997 release Chris Botti assembled the pretty much the same stellar cast of musicians as he used of his previous recordings. This album has 9 tracks that are new and 1 previously released song that appeared on the soundtrack to the film “Caught” this being the song with Jonatha Brooke on vocals called “Forgiven”. To begin this collection the instrumental track “The steps of Positano” starts the album off, this has a familiar feel to it as just like his previous 2 releases the music is all atmosphere, this is perfectly conveyed by the brushed cymbal playing of Jerry Marotta and the keyboard skills of Paul Joseph Moore (of the “Blue Nile” fame) and Mr Botti himself who plays the same themes as the keyboards but with sensuous trumpet playing. The next track is a song co... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Great atmosphere, good sound.
Disadvantages: Could have listened to more, but this is not really a disadvantage, more praise!

...Wow I love music but never would have said I had any interest in trumpet players until recently. I stumbled upon Chris Bottis music but accident and boy am I glad, his mellow layed back jazz is universal, and chilling. I got this DVD as quickly as I could after first hearing his music and its great, just turn the lights down and its like being in your own jazz club with some of the biggest names in pop etc if that makes sense. Chris backed sting during a tour and he appears in this DVD with a fantastic version of Funny Valentine which he sings to his wife in the audience. Chris Botti is great, and having seen this I only hope I get to see him live some day.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful