Chris Botti To Love Again Smooth Jazz CD ReviewWriten by Clyde Dennis
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.
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 Bubl
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
Clyde 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 online daily at Smooth Jazz 24/7