Focusing on Botti's love of melody, Impressions is an aesthetically varied album featuring works by classical composers Frédéric Chopin and Astor Piazzolla as well as standards by George Gershwin and Harold Arlen. The follow-up to his smash 2009 concert album ...

Digitally remastered using 20-bit remastering technology by Doug Sax and Robert Hadley (The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California). Before his run at the top of the easy-listening charts, Herb Alpert was already a music-industry veteran, writing and producing hits for Sam ...

Trumpet music. Although the most popular contemporary jazz tends to fall into the "lite" category, trumpeter Chris Botti avoids painting himself into this corner by sticking with an approach more reminiscent of Chet Baker. The Oregon native adds further layers to the ...

Trumpet music. This extensive compilation of vocal tracks from the latter part of Louis Armstrong's career features many of his most popular performances, including the 1960s hits "Hello Dolly" and "What a Wonderful World," and his wonderfully relaxed duet with Bing Crosby ...

Trumpet album. In fact, two guest vocalists from the earlier album, Sting and Paula Cole, appear again, with Sting lending his distinctive voice to the lilting "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" and Cole accompanying Botti on the gentle ...

Trumpet songs. ~ Al Campbell Photographers: Govert de Roos; Jan Persson Among the 11 tracks are "What a Wonderful World," "Hello Dolly," "Mame," and a 1957 duet with Ella Fitzgerald, "Our Love is Here to Stay." With so many quality compilations to choose ...

Trumpet music. Thus the opening brass-cymbal bluster of "The Buzzard Song" gives way to a mid-eastern carpet of flutes and deep brass as Davis' poignant trumpet speaks in split tones and yearning cadences, bursting with blues feeling; a tuba soon picks up ...

Trumpet album. Chet Baker's 1959 (reissued in 1987) release, CHET, is a romantic yet melancholy collection of mostly ballads. Baker doesn't sing here, but his highly emotive and lyrical trumpet playing makes this album more than compelling. A merging of East and ...

Trumpet album. Grey December, Chet Baker And Strings, Chet Baker Sextet, Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace, Chet Baker Sings, Chet Baker Cools Out, Play Boys, and Embraceable You EU four CD box set containing eight albums from the Jazz great including.

Trumpet music. Davis' manipulation of pitch on "Saeta" and "Solea" is so idiomatic, so vocalized, so full of revel and lament, it pierces your heart with heroic resignation and longing. Miles fashioned a vibrato-less, introspective brass cry, made all the more lovely ...

Trumpet songs. Nowhere would this stylistic progression be as pronounced as in the horn-driven updates of several then-concurrent chart hits. 2. It was renamed "El Presidente," presumably to honor the then-recent memory of the slain U.S. leader John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The ballads ...

Trumpet songs. Beginning with ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT and proceeding through a remarkable succession of famous recordings over the next 30 years, Miles Davis became one of the greatest soloists, arrangers and talent scouts in the history of American music. People who didn't ...

Here we get Marsalis' picks for some of his favorite tracks off each album as well as highlights from his epic 2002 orchestral and big-band piece All Rise. Liner Note Author: Wynton Marsalis. Photographers: Frank Stewart; Frank Corman; Nana Watanabai In celebration ...