Chris Botti - April 6, 2025

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The Center opened in September, 2007 and consists of the 440-seat Foster Family Theater, the 1,248-seat Mary Stuart Rogers Theater, the Marie Damrell Gallo Grand Lobby and a plaza serving both theaters, and the Modesto Rotary Music Garden.

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Chris Botti

CHRIS BOTTI

GRAMMY-winning trumpeter Chris Botti has been one of the most popular instrumentalists in the world for nearly three decades; he’s collaborated with some of the biggest superstars on the planet, including Sting, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell, Steven Tyler, Andrea Bocelli, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma, and others; he’s topped the jazz charts with numerous albums, earned multiple Gold and Platinum records, performed with symphony orchestras and on prestigious stages from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House.

In short, Chris Botti really needs no introduction. Yet with his Blue Note Records debut, he’s offering one anyway. Vol.1 is in many ways a fresh start for the trumpeter. Having successfully crossed over from jazz renown to pop stardom, Botti’s first album in more than a decade finds him crossing back, with a small group project focused on acoustic jazz and classic standards.

“I turned 60 in 2022, at a time that seemed like a restart for so many things in the world,” Botti says. “I wanted to strip away all the orchestral arrangements and special guests and focus more on my playing, the playing of my band, and these jazz classics that we always love playing on stage.”

While Botti could boast of the major names with whom he’s shared stages, this project allows him to share his enthusiasm for the jazz greats past and present that excite him – his conversation is peppered with references to everyone from Miles Davis to Keith Jarrett to Pat Metheny to Brad Mehldau. He points to landmark albums like Davis’ Kind of Blue, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, or Metheny’s duo outing with Charlie Haden, Beyond the Missouri Sky as models for the kind of “lifestyle” music he set out to make – music that is exquisite on its own but can also set the scene for a coffee shop or hotel lounge, instantly generating a sophisticated mood.

Of course, Botti couldn’t have found a more ideal home for this artistic rebirth. Blue Note has been a standard-bearer of jazz throughout its storied history, and the trumpeter found a receptive partner in label president Don Was. “Anyone that’s lucky enough to say they’re on Blue Note Records should be pinching themselves,” Botti says. “It’s a fantastic honor. I had great runs on Verve and Columbia, so it’s amazing to now arrive on the most famous traditional jazz record label.”

Not that Vol. 1 is a complete about-face –longtime fans will immediately recognize Botti’s glowing tone and regal melodicism, as well as his flair for investing the narrative of a song with high drama and vibrant emotion. “There’s a cinematic quality that I like to hear in music, and that I’ve found that audiences really love,” he says. “The essence of that

remains on this album. It’s paramount to me that there is incredible beauty and elegance to all of the performances and the way they’re recorded.”

Botti has assembled a stellar group of collaborators to achieve that blend of beauty and elegance for the album. The album was produced by the legendary David Foster, whose staggering list of credits includes three Beatles, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé, Diana Krall, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton and countless others.

“David commands so much respect from the musicians that he didn’t have to say much, but he would navigate the session in a very subtle way,” says Botti of the producer, who also contributed the lush, moving piano intro to “Danny Boy” that sets the tone for the album.

Botti has enjoyed a long collaboration with pianist Taylor Eigsti, while bassist Zach Moses, keyboardist Julian Pollack, and saxophonist Chad Lefkowitz-Brown are all members of his regular touring band. Veteran drummer Vinnie Colaiuta rounds out the core band.

They’re joined by a number of excellent musicians, including Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman, whose atmospheric, cascading lines grace the Rodgers & Hart classic “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”; classical violinist Joshua Bell, who brings a striking passion to Botti’s stark rendition of “My Funny Valentine”; Uruguayan-born guitarist Leonardo Amuedo, whose years in Brazil are reflected in his graceful

soloing on Henry Mancini’s “Two for the Road” and the bossa nova feel he brings to “Time On My Hands”; pianist Esteban Castro, whose delicate restraint belies his youth on “Old Folks”; and singer-songwriter John Splithoff, who contributes and performs his romantic song “Paris.”

Above all, it’s Botti’s clarion, heart wrenching trumpet that seizes he spotlight throughout Vol. 1. From the way he sings the yearning melody of “Danny Boy” to the keening, airy melancholy of his Harmon mute playing on Miles Davis’ “Blue In Green”; the hushed tenderness he brings to Coldplay’s “Fix You” or his shimmering flurries on “Someday My Prince Will Come;” Botti leaves no doubt of his mastery or his ability to speak directly from the soul of the instrument.

The title of Vol. 1 implies a new beginning, but perhaps even more promising is the fact that it also hints at a Vol. 2 – and beyond. “I’m so looking forward to that possibility,” Botti concludes.

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CENTER CIRCLES

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As of February 25, 2025

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Body Shop

Sodhi Law Group

Winton-Ireland, Strom & Green

Insurance Agency

Wille Electric Supply Company, Inc.

Mistlin Honda

Arts Education

As of February 25, 2025

$25,000+

Alfred Matthews

California Arts Council

Education Foundation of Stanislaus County U.S. Bank

$10,000+

Kaiser Permanente

Make Dreams Real Foundation

Modesto Subaru Porges Family Foundation Fund

Silva Injury Law, Inc.

$5,000+

Ella Webb & Shelley Dameron

$2,500+

Beard Land & Investment Co.

Enterprise Mobility Foundation

Jeff Gaudio & Karen Freeborn

In Memory of Caleb Hurst

Jason, Beki, & Stephen Rush

$1,000+

Carl A and Margaret A Johnson Family Foundation

Modesto Rotary Club Foundation

Modesto Sunrise Rotary

The Save Mart Companies CARES Foundation

$500+ USS Balthasar

Cortney Hurst

Modesto Sunrise Rotary

Anonymous (1)

$150+

Debra Brady & Stephen Veglia

Grace Lutheran Church

Jerry & Diane Hougland

Alice Renfroe

FOUNDATION GIVING

Bob and Marie Gallo Foundation

California Arts Council

Costa Family Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Stanislaus Community Foundation

The Ernest Gallo Foundation

The Julio R. Gallo Foundation

Porges Family Foundation Fund

Raymus Foundation

U.S. Bank Foundation

Creative West

Gallo Center for the a r t s

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Christina Gomez, ChairoftheBoard

Marie D. Gallo, PresidentEmerita† June Rogers, Director Emerita

Alex Mari, M.D., ImmediatePastChair

Ginger Johnson, ChairElect

Mel Bradley Fallon Ferris

Sarah Grover

Chad Hilligus

Michael Krausnick

Jay Krishnaswamy

Michelle Lewis

Katy Menges

Todd Aaronson

Angelica Anguiano

Victor Barraza

John C. Bellizzi

Jennifer Coehlo

Kathryn Davis

Daniel Del Real

Paul Michael Eger

Robert Fantazia

Stacey Filippi

Robert Fores Julian Gallo

Irene Angelo†

Lilly Banisadre

Carl Boyett†

Joan Cardoza

Sheila Carroll

Suzanne Casazza

Paul Draper

Ron Emerzian

Ann Endsley

Kenni Friedman

Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Ph.D.

Duncan Reno

Tina Rocha

Michael Joe Silva

Stephanie Gallo Tyler

Ann M. Veneman

Geoff Wong

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Ryan Roth Gallo

Virginia Madueno

Roberto Martinez

Ivey Mayol

Yolanda Meraz

Sharilyn Nelson

Linda Hischier Ronald Hoffmann

Jose Ibarra

Jaime Jimenez

Brian Kline

Kevin Luttenegger

Ogle, Ph.D.

Johann Ramirez

Rose Marie Reavill Jeffrey Reed

FOUNDING TRUSTEES

Louis Friedman

Dianne Gagos

Barry Highiet† Randy Jalli

Roy Levin, M.D.

Alexandra Loew

Bill Mattos

Tony Mistlin† Kate Nyegaard Ruthann Olsen

Jeanne Perry

John C. Pfeffer, M.D.

Norm Porges

Chris Reed James Reed

Ellen Ritchey Delsie Schrimp

Catherine Rhee

Christine Roberts

Rosalee Rush

John Schneider

Kate Trompetter

Philip Trompetter, Ph.D.

Aaron Valencia

Colleen F. Van Egmond

Doug Vilas

Sue Zwahlen

Fred A. Silva

Ray Simon

Delmar R. Tonge, M.D.†

Tom Van Groningen, Ph.D.

Carol Whiteside†

Jeremiah Williams

Alice Yip

†In Memoriam

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