Chris Botti's Night Sessions Live To Feature Shawn Colvin, Sting
Yahoo! Music, Jun 26, 2002 4:00 pm PDT
(6/26/02, 4 p.m. ET) -- Trumpeter Chris Botti captured the excitement of his live performance on the forthcoming Columbia Records release of Chris Botti & Friends, Night Sessions: Live In Concert. The new CD/DVD, set for release on August 6, also features Sting and Shawn Colvin.
The project was recorded last November at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, where Botti played a special live performance featuring tracks from his most recent Columbia album, Night Sessions. The performance, which included guest appearances by international superstar Sting and singer-songwriter Colvin, was aired live on DirecTV.
The live disc includes Botti's performances of "Lisa," "Streets Ahead," "Miami Overnight," "Steps Of Positano," "Alone In the City," "Regrooveable," "Easter Parade," "Why Not" and "Blue Horizon." Colvin performs the Sting-penned "All Would Envy" and her original "The Facts About Jimmy." Sting performs "In The Wee Small Hours" and "Moon Over Bourbon Street." The DVD version also features a photo gallery of the night as well as interviews with all three performers.
The original Night Sessions, released in October 2001, was written and recorded by Botti during a brief break from his role as featured soloist on Sting's Brand New Day tour and was produced by Grammy Award-winner Kipper. It was through Kipper that Botti got the idea to record "All Would Envy," a tune Sting had written but never released on any album.
Botti told LAUNCH about the song. "Just the combination of the fact that it is an unreleased Sting song, it's on my record, its very kind of Brazilian in its character, we heard the song for the first time in Rio de Janeiro when we were down there, and the fact that Shawn Colvin sings it in a very uncharacteristically Shawn Colvin way, she's almost crooning as if she were Frank Sinatra, and so many people that have heard the song go: 'My God, I love the voice, who is it?' Takes a minute to really figure out that it is Shawn because it is sort of unusual for her. And I think all those elements add up to make it a special song," he said.
-- Janine Coveney, Los Angeles
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