Premiere of 'Chris Botti Live With Orchestra & Special Guests'

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The critically-acclaimed Grammy- nominated trumpeter Chris Botti, whose recent albums To Love Again: The Duets (2005) and When I Fall In Love (2004) have raised the bar of excellence in the interpretation of pop jazz standards while creating a uniquely contemporary sound and style, stars in "CHRIS BOTTI LIVE with Orchestra & Special Guests, " set to premiere during the March PBS Pledge Week. "What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life?" the Chris Botti & Sting track from To Love Again: The Duets, is in the current running for the Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Grammy while "In Our Time, " the track featuring Botti on Burt Bacharach's At This Time album, has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance category.

'Chris Botti Live With Orchestra & Special Guests' shot December 1 and 2, 2005, over a Thursday-Friday run at LA's fabled Wilshire Theatre, inspired the Los Angeles Times Don Heckman to write, "It was apparent, from the first notes Chris Botti played at the Wilshire Theatre on Friday, that the sold-out house was in for a special evening...Botti's latest album, To Love Again -- as well as the previously released When I Fall In Love -- features extraordinary lineups of vocal guest artists. Six showed up for the concert -- Sting, Jill Scott, Paula Cole, Renee Olstead, Paul Buchanan and Gladys Knight -- along with Burt Bacharach ...despite the inevitable audience excitement generated by the appearance of such vocal headliners and despite the artists' diversity of interpretations, it was Botti's virtuosic trumpet work, his inventive melody-making, his engaging onstage presence and his powerful band ...that ruled the evening..."

A full concert version of 'Chris Botti Live With Orchestra & Special Guests' is slated for DVD release in late March.

'Chris Botti Live With Orchestra & Special Guests' setlist
1 -- Someone to Watch Over Me
2 -- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (w/ Sting)
3 -- 1000 Kisses Deep
4 -- Lover Man (w/ Gladys Knight)
5 -- My One and Only Love (w/ Paula Cole)
6 -- Are You Lonesome Tonight? (w/ Paul Buchanan)
7 -- When I Fall In Love
8 -- Good Morning Heartache (w/ Jill Scott)
9 -- The Look of Love (w/ Burt Bacharach & Paula Cole)
10 -- My Funny Valentine (w/ Sting)
11 -- Cinema Paradiso
12 -- Pennies From Heaven (w/ Rene Olstead)
13 -- Why Not?

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