Chris Botti in Boston, 2008

Chris Botti in Boston features trumpeter Chris Botti along with a bevy of name artists performing live with the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall in 2008. Fully documented as a concert film and album, the night is an intimate and soulful birdseye view of the suppletoned trumpeter who has grown into his role as a virtuoso since his time backing up Sting who of course appears here. Perhaps it isn t surprising then the concert is subtly reminiscent of Sting s own classic coming of age concert moment Bring on the Night. If Sting s 1986 show was an attempt to reintroduce himself to the world as a popcumjazz artist, then Botti s 2008 show is clearly a showcase for the onetime smooth jazz wunderkind to fully represent himself as the eye of his own crossover storm. Having never fully embraced the synthetic vibe of the smooth jazz sound, Botti has spent his time since 2004 s massively popular When I Fall in Love creating his own organic, acoustic and straightahead crossover jazz. In the context of cont