Articles tagged "chris botti"

Sound Affects

Communicating Music Heart to Heart: An Interview with Yo-Yo Ma

by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler

[2.Feb.09] :. Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned, Grammy-winning cellist extraordinaire, and his talent matches his level of humility. He is extremely joyous and eager to share his music with the world in such a way...

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Column: Jazz Today

R.I.P. Smooth Jazz, 1985-2008?

by Will Layman

[17.Apr.08] :. With two of the US' major "smooth jazz" radio stations defunct to the fickleness of format change, the time to mourn the cheesy sub-genre is now. But what made Smooth Jazz not really jazz at all?

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Music Review

Chris Botti: Italia

by Evan Sawdey

[15.Nov.07] :. Botti has chops that can be used to amazing effect, but if he keeps watering his talents down with overblown, generic arrangements, then the distance between the commercial Botti and the credible one is just going to get bigger and bigger. "Jazz-lite", indeed.

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