''Impressions'' is the tenth studio album by American jazz trumpeter

Chris Botti Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an award-winning American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album ''Impressions''. He was also nominated in ...

, which was released on April 17, 2012 through

Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...

. The album debuted and peaked No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart. On February 10, 2013, the album received the

Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (previously: Best Pop Instrumental Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording arti ...

Track listing

Personnel

– trumpet (1-13), arrangements (10) *

Billy Childs William Edward Childs (born March 8, 1957) is an award-winning American composer, jazz pianist, arranger and conductor from Los Angeles, California, United States. Early life When he was sixteen he attended the Community School of the Performing ...

– acoustic piano (1, 7) * Jim Cox – acoustic piano (2, 13), arrangements (13) *

David Foster David Walter Foster (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and music executive who chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. His music career spans mor ...

– arrangements (2, 10, 11), acoustic piano (10), keyboards (11) *

John Barlow Jarvis John Barlow Jarvis (born January 2, 1954 in Pasadena, California)Paul Kingsbury, editor"The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music" 2004 is an American songwriter, composer, session pianist and recording artist. Before mov ...

– acoustic piano (5) *

Herbie Hancock Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he help ...

– acoustic piano (6) *

Walter Afanasieff Walter Afanasieff (born Vladimir Nikitich Afanasyev; February 10, 1958), formerly nicknamed Baby Love in the 1980s, is an American record producer and songwriter of Russian-Chinese descent. He was a collaborator with Mariah Carey on her first ...

– keyboards (7, 9), arrangements (9), choir vocals (9) *

Geoffrey Keezer Geoffrey Keezer (born November 20, 1970) is an American jazz pianist. Keezer was playing in jazz clubs as a teenager, playing piano for Art Blakey at age 18 and touring with Joshua Redman, Benny Golson and Ray Brown in his 20s. He has toured w ...

– acoustic piano (8) *

Guy Fletcher Guy Edward Fletcher (born 24 May 1960) is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known for his position as one of the two Keyboard instrument, keyboard players in the rock band Dire Straits from 1984 until the group's dissolution, and his subs ...

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Fender Rhodes The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...

(13) * Leonardo Amuedo – guitar (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 12) *

Ramón Stagnaro Ramón Stagnaro (May 10, 1954 – February 16, 2022) was a Peruvian guitarist and producer who had a career of 40 years, and who had toured or recorded with many great artists such as Alex Acuña, Eva Ayllon, Diana Ross, Gino Vannelli, Celine Di ...

– guitar (11) *

Mark Knopfler Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Born in Scotland and raised in England, he was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. He pursued a s ...

– electric guitar (13), vocals (13) * Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar (13) * Robert Hurst – bass (1, 6, 7, 11) *

David Hungate William David Hungate (born August 5, 1948) is an American bass guitarist noted as a member of the Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1976 to 1982 and again from 2014 to 2015, and the son of judge William L. Hungate. Along with most of his T ...

– bass (5) * Michael Valerio – bass (8) *

Glenn Worf Glenn Worf is an American bassist known mainly for his work as a session musician. He has recorded with many major country music acts and also tours with Mark Knopfler. Early life and education Worf was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Madis ...

– bass (13) *

Vinnie Colaiuta Vincent Peter Colaiuta (born February 5, 1956) is an American drummer who has worked as a session musician in many genres. He was inducted into the ''Modern Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 1996 and the ''Classic Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 2014. Colai ...

– drums (1, 5, 6, 7, 11) * Ian Thomas – drums (13) *

Alex Acuña Alejandro Neciosup Acuña (born December 12, 1944), known professionally as Alex Acuña, is a Peruvian-American drummer and percussionist. Background Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuña played in local bands such as La Orquesta de los Hermanos Neci ...

– percussion (3, 9, 11) *

Pedro Eustache Pedro Eustache (born August 18, 1959) is a Venezuelan-born flautist, reed player, world woodwind player, composer, and instrument maker. He has more than seven years of symphonic experience and a collection of around 600 instruments from all ...

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duduk The duduk ( ; hy, դուդուկ ) or tsiranapogh ( hy, ծիրանափող, meaning “apricot-made wind instrument”), is an ancient Armenian double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood. It is indigenous to Armenia. Variations of th ...

(9) *

Caroline Campbell Caroline Campbell is an American violinist. She is a Solo (music), soloist and chamber music, chamber musician who performs and records classical music, classical, jazz, film and popular music. Early life Campbell was born in Albany, New York, A ...

– orchestra contractor (1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12), violin (8) * Isobel Griffiths – orchestra contractor (3, 7, 9, 13) * Vince Mendoza – arrangements and conductor (1, 6) * William Ross – arrangements and conductor (2, 5, 8, 11, 12), arrangements (9) *

Gil Goldstein Gil Goldstein (born November 6, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American jazz pianist and accordionist. He has won 5 Grammy Awards and he was nominated 8 time Biography He began studying accordion at age 5 after noticing it in The Lawrence We ...

– arrangements (3, 13) * Jaques Morelenbaum – orchestra conductor (3, 13), arrangements and conductor (7) * Ben Foster – orchestra conductor (9) *

Andrea Bocelli Andrea Bocelli (; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor and multi-instrumentalist. He was born visually impaired, with congenital glaucoma, and at the age of 12, Bocelli became completely blind, following a brain hemorrhage resulting fro ...

– vocals (2) *

Vince Gill Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music singer, songwriter and musician. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman of the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist b ...

– vocals (5) *

Lisa Fischer Lisa Fischer (born December 1, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter. She found success with her 1991 debut album ''So Intense'', which produced the Grammy Award–winning hit single "How Can I Ease the Pain". She has been a back-up singer ...

– choir vocals (9) * Tanja Tzarovska – vocals (9)

Production

Bobby Colomby Robert Wayne Colomby (born 20 December 1944) is a jazz-rock fusion drummer, record producer and television presenter. He is best known as an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, which he co-founded in 1967. He has also played wit ...

– producer (1-8, 10, 11, 12), management * Walter Afanasieff – producer (9) * Mark Knopfler – producer (13) * Allen Sides – engineer (1-12), mixing (1-13), recording (1, 4, 6, 10), instrumental recording (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12), orchestra recording (2, 5, 8, 11, 12) * Jorge Vivo – vocal recording (2) * Haydn Bendall – orchestra recording (3, 7, 9, 13), vocal recording (9) * Drew Bollman – instrumental recording (5), vocal recording (5) * Matt Rausch – instrumental recording (5), vocal recording (5) * Tyler Gordon – keyboard recording (7, 9), choir vocal recording (9) * Chuck Ainlay – engineer (13), recording (13) * Joe Kearnes – second engineer (13) * Scott Moore – Pro Tools operator (1-9, 11, 12) * Tim Lauber – Pro Tools operator (2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12) * Jochem van der Saag – Pro Tools operator (2), instrumental recording (11) * Fiona Cruikshank – Pro Tools operator (3, 7, 9, 13) * Eric Boulanger – mastering *

Doug Sax Doug Lionel Sax (April 26, 1936 – April 2, 2015) was an American mastering engineer from Los Angeles, California. He mastered three of The Doors' albums, including their 1967 debut; six of Pink Floyd's albums, including ''The Wall''; Ray Charles ...

– mastering * Matt Evers – production coordinator * Fabrizio Ferri – photography * Archie Castillo – management ;Studios * Recorded at

Ocean Way Recording Ocean Way Recording was a series of recording studios established by recording engineer and producer Allen Sides with locations in Los Angeles, California, Nashville, Tennessee, and Saint Barthélemy. Ocean Way Recording no longer operates record ...

and Newman Scoring Stage (Hollywood, CA); Chartmaker Studios (Malibu, CA);

Record One Record One is a recording studio complex in the Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Originally founded in 1979, the studio has been the site of numerous commercially successful and award-winning record ...

(Los Angeles, CA); The House (New Canaan, CT); British Grove and AIR Lyndhurst Hall (London, UK). * Mixed at Ocean Way Recording. * Mastered at The Mastering Lab (Ojai, CA).

Charts

References

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