Chris Botti - December (2006) {Columbia}

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Chris Botti - December (2006) {Columbia}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 396MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 120MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Christmas

The story about there being more suicides around the holidays turns out to be a myth, but like all urban legends, it caught on among the populace (or at least among lazy journalists) because it sounds like it should be true; as trumpeter Chris Botti writes in a sleeve note to his seasonal collection, December, "At no other time of the year is there a wider array of emotions than the month of December." This is a clue that Botti, in acceding to his record company's request that he undertake a Christmas album, was not interested in simply celebrating the season in his interpretations of holiday standards. There have been other such contemplative Christmas records: George Winston's album, also called December, is calm rather than celebratory, and Barbra Streisand's Christmas Memories, released in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, is another collection that takes in the season's complexities. Add Botti's album to that list. The approach, of course, fits in with the trumpeter's overall musical style. Often heard through a mute, his playing usually has an intimate, low-key character, and that is true here, too. Critics have compared him to Miles Davis, and to that one easily may add Chet Baker, especially because like Baker, Botti has chosen to sing here, applying an adequate tenor to Richard Marx's "Perfect Day" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (the latter one of the more troubled of lyrics to become a Christmas standard). It isn't all doom and gloom, of course; there's a playful reading of "Winter Wonderland," for instance. But this is still an album to be put on in the shank of the evening when the Christmas festivities have subsided, not at the height of the celebrations.
Track List
01. The Christmas Song 4:32
02. Ave Maria 5:46
03. Winter Wonderland 3:09
04. The First Noel 2:51
05. Let It Snow! 4:03
06. Hallelujah 3:04
07. I Really Don't Want Mucha for Christmas 4:19
08. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 4:31
09. Santa Claus is Comming to Town 4:08
10. Silent Night 5:45
11. Little Dummer Boy 3:06
12. O little Town of Bethlehem 3:10
13. I'll be Home for Christmas 4:08

musicians
Chris Botti – trumpet
Billy Childs – Fender Rhodes (1, 11, 13), acoustic piano (3, 4, 5, 9, 12)
C. J. Vanston – acoustic piano (3, 13), synthesizers (4, 5, 11, 12), organ (3), Hammond organ (9)
Randy Waldman – acoustic piano (7, 8)
Anthony Wilson – guitar (1, 3, 7, 9)
Shane Fontayne – guitar (6, 11, 13)
James Harrah – guitar (8)
Dave Carpenter – bass (1, 3, 5, 12)
Jon Ossman – bass (6, 11, 13)
Christian McBride – bass (7)
Brian Bromberg – bass (8)
Jimmy Haslip – bass (9)
Peter Erskine – drums (1, 5, 9, 12), percussion (5, 9)
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (7, 8, 11, 13)
Bob Sheppard – alto flute (1), tenor saxophone (9)
Brandon Fields – tenor saxophone (11)
Mary Anne Steinberger – cello (1, 4)
Andrew Picken – viola (1, 4)
Susan Chatman – violin (1, 4)
Joel Derouin – violin (1, 4)
Gina Kronstadt – violin (1, 4), concertmaster (1, 4)
John Wittenberg – violin (1, 4)
The London Session Orchestra – orchestra (2, 10)
Richard H. Bullock – bassoon (8)
Andrew Radford – bassoon (8)
Don Markese – clarinet (8(
Stephen Kujala – flute (8)
Dick Mitchell – flute (8)
Robert Shulgold – flute (8)
Justin Hagerman – flugelhorn (8)
Yvonne Moriarty – flugelhorn (8)
Brian O'Connor – flugelhorn (8)
Kurt Snyder – flugelhorn (8)
Nick Lane – trombone (8)
John Van Houten – tuba (8)
Orchestra of St John's – choir (2)
John Lubbock – choir conductor (2)
Eric Benét – vocals (7)

Produced by Bobby Colomby


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Chris Botti / December

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