Chris Botti - The Very Best of Chris Botti
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Free Music Notes for The Very Best of Chris Botti
Free Music Review: Good, but not great...
Hit: 2 Stars
I felt a bit like I was standing in an elevator. This was my first experience with Chris's music and I am not sure I am going to buy anymore without hearing it first. I felt that his album was a bit uninspired and did not feel that he was willing to take any chances with his music. I like music that moves me...this album did not.Free Music Review: Disappointing
Hit: 2 Stars
The Botti trumpet is excellent, however it has to fight with monotonous, uninspired, drum work and assorted background that is overwhelming the clear, beautiful notes of Botti. The vocals are ghastly. The crew on this CD needs to listen to some Henry Mancini arrangements; they could learn something about instrumentation.Free Music Review: Disappointed
Hit: 2 Stars
Of the three Botti CDs I have bought, I liked this one the least. All new songs with which I was not familiar. Prefer the oldies. A knock on me, not him.Free Music Review: uninspiring and mechanical noises
Hit: 1 Stars
this is the third Chris Botti CD i purchased and listened to. i think Botti is a great trumpeter. on PBS' Legend of Jazz series, his performance with the PBS house band was amazingly good. i never heard or saw him perform in pure jazz setting and may be Botti was awared that the PBS audience is quite jazz sophisticated thus he returned to the root of jazz and did a serious jazz rendition. that performance was the BEST of everything i heard from Botti. the trio really helped bringing about Botti's Jazz ability. sadly, in all his CDs, including this one, Botti applied the mechanical background "noise" (uninspiring back up) and it is totally artificial, lack of improvization and lack of swing. without improvisation and swing, there is no Jazz. the PBS performance proved to me that Botti has all the capacity of a jazz artist but he is making pop to earn his mercedes.
i hope Botti build on from his PBS appearance and make a CD with a conventional trio setting. no more mechanical electronic beat machine, artificial arrangement and also, DROP THE SYNTHEZISER noise at the back. let the trumpet do the talking, Count Basie proved that silence is the best and most difficult music to play. let the improvisation element go, let it swing a bit more.
fantastic artist but extremely disappointing "jazz" production. 1 star.
Free Music Review: short of expectations
Hit: 1 Stars
This album fails to define CB style. In most of his albums you can play from 1-10 w/o skipping. His albums consist of songs that set a tempo and mood. The very best of CB is not the very best. I listen TO CB everyday and this is one album that I never listen to. Poor composition and arragement of songs. I would skip it.