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Show Kickin’ some brass MOZART CELEBRATION — UVSC Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Centre Stage, UVSC campus, Jazz trumpeterbrings best-selling sound to Kingsbury Hall aSTAGE JAMS — Royal hee wnW.University Pkwy,, Orem. 165 N. Main, Spanish Fork. $: (801) 358-8134 or Scie com. PEACE & QUIET — Hard rock band. Alan Sculley SPECIAL TO THE DAILY HERALD 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Huka Bar, 151 E. 6100 South, Murray. (801) 376- ith his 2004 CD, “When I Fall In Love,” trumpet player Chris Botti has reached level of success that’s exceedingly rarein jazz circles. 9361. www.we-rock.com. RADIO SFCN — Local garage bands arefeatured on the new radio station for the city of Spanish Fork beginning May1. 423-8150. radioSFCn@sfcn.org. The mainly instrumental CD SALUTE TO YOUTH — Youth solo- has sold morethan 500,000 ists featured in American Fork copies — easily surpassing Symphony Concert. 7:30 p.m. Botti’s previous best-selling album,2001's “Night Sessions,” Monday, American, Fork High School auditorium. $3. 756-2330. which topped out just shy of YOUNGARTISTS — Pleasant Grove 200,000. Beforeit finished its run, “WhenI Fall’ In Love” had notched 17 weeksat No. 1 on Orchestra presents its Young Artists Concert. 7 p.m. Monday, Pleasant Grove Junior High School, 810 N. 100 East, Pleasant Grove.Free. “Billboard” magazine's jazz chart and hadalso. crossed over to the pop chart, spending CLASSICAL, RELIGIOUS & OPERA 32 weeksonthat“Billboard” chart. As Botti — whois appearing Wednesday at Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City — explained in a recent phoneinterview, oneof the best aspects of his breakthrough success is that it cameat a point wherehis music reached a new peak and EASTER CONCERT — Presented by the Utah Baroque Ensemble. 7 p.m. April 29, Tahitian Noni auditorium, 333 W. RiverPark Dr., Provo. Free. Www.utahbaroque.org/ube. SALT LAKE SYMPHONY — Spring Concert with Schubert’s Symphony with a CD that he made com- No. 7 in C Major. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Libby Gardner Concert pletely on his own terms with Hall, U of U campus. $8/adults, $5/ noartistic compromise. sound,” Botti said, pointing to a key ingredientin the suc* cess of “WhenI Fall In Love.” “That's a record that’s not afraidtoall be basically slow, romantic, melancholy, whatever the adjective that’s used to express it. You know, that record's really not about a hit songora fast, uptempo cheery melody. Noneofthat stuffis really there. “It just goes to show you thatI think there’s an audience out there who wants to hear artistic music with spacein it and melody and not necessarily dumbthe music downtofit a particular radio format. “I think the strength, the real strength in my records, lies in theoriginality of the arrangements and the sound of my trumpet,” Botti added. “We've really painstakinglytried to make the arrangements lush and different and beautiful and emotionalandfree, andlike notclutter upall the space. I think that these two records havea soundto them that we've worked really, really hard(to get).” The second record to which Botti refers is his current release, “To Love Again,” which continues to mine the lush, romantic sound of “When I Fall In Love.” The one major difference is “To Love Again” Columbia Records Jazztrumpeter Chis Bot will perform Wednesday in KingsburyHall in Salt Lake City. Him;An Evening of Sacred Music.” 7;30 p.m. April 29, Center Street is primarily a vocal CD, with it was like, bang, it just kind of Sting, Michael Buble,Jill Scott evolved that way.” Sting’s involvement and Gladys Knight, among the stars who sing on the CD. Adding vocalists to the mix might seem like an obvious movetoincrease the commercial viability of Botti's music. But as Botti noted,he didn't initially plan for vocals to play shouldn't comeas a shock, considering the role he has played in Botti's career. A native of Oregon,Botti had been making a name for himself for a decade, both as arecordingartist and as a such a maiorrole in the CD. session musician, when Sting “Originally wehadlike three or four singers who were go- gave Botti’s careera boost in ing to be on the record, not nine,” hesaid. “And I was having dinner with Sting and he was like, ‘So what's going on? What's your next record goingto be like” AndI said, ‘You know, we're going to have somesingers andit's going to be moreof the same thing as “WhenI Fall In Love.” But we didn’t know it was going to be a duets record.’ And Sting kind of glared at me in his kindof very funny (way), ‘If you don’t ask me to sing onthis record, I'in going to be insulted.” “So he was on board,” Botti said. “And thenI ran into Gladys Knightat a party and I heard hersing, and | was like ‘Oh my... you're so great.’ Andshe goes,‘Oh,I'd love to do something with you.’ Then 2000 by hiring the trumpet player to join his band for his Ifyougo " Chris Botti Where: Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City When: Wednesday at 8 p.m. Tickets: $35, available at Smith's Tix locations (800-888TIXX, www.smithstix.com) Info: (801) 581-7100, www.kingsburyhall.org “Brand New Day”tour. That gig continued for two years andfostered a close friendship betweenthe two. In the midst of touring with Sting, Botti was signed by ma- jorlabel Columbia Records and released the “Night Sessions” CD. His solo career has been onthe fast track eversince. Botti’s successhas afforded himthe opportunity to assemble oneof the finest touring groupsin jazz, with acclaimed pianist Billy Childs, drummer Billy Kilson and guitarist Mark Whitfield among the featured members. Their abilities were recently documented whena two-nighi standat the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills was filmed for a DVDthatwill be released in MusicalTheatre, 177 W. Center St., Provo. $7/adults, $5/students/children/seniors. $10/dinneradditional, 6:30 p.m. 764-0535. SPRING CONCERT — Russian pieces “Polovtsian Dances” and “The FireBird Suite” will be performed. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Thorley Hall, by SUU Orchestra, Southem Utah University, Cedar City. $6/adutts, $3/students/children. (435) 5867878. www.suu.edu/arts. CLASSICAL VENUES ABRAVANEL HALL — 123 W. South 2006. “Wewalk on stage with this © band, and there are moments whereit’s very, very romantic and beautiful and everyone's, ‘Oh,that's so sweet and wonderful,’ ” Botti said of his group's currentlive show “Then you turn around, and we're really like, for lack of a better word, takingit really far, stretching the boundaries of whatcan be done in music. “I'd put my band right now up against any bandin the world,”hesaid. “That's the musicianship levelin this thing and the way we approach music and keep spurring each other on musically.” Temple St., Salt LakeCity. (801) 355-ARTS. www.utahsymphonyop era.org. 8 p.m,, Friday, Saturday, Utah Symphony welcomesNatalie MacMaster, master of Celtic fiddlin: gApril 28-29: “Bluebeard’s Castle” ‘with Ralph Matson CATHEDRALOF THE MADELEINE — 331 E. South TempleSt., Salt Lake City. (801) 994-4663. www. madeleinechoirschool.org DAVID GARDNER HALL — University of Utah campus venue includes Libby Gardner Concert Hall and Dumke Recital Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City. (801) 581-7100. www.arttix. com. Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday: Two Bands Concert. DE JONG CONCERT HALL — BYU ‘campus, in Harris Fine Arts Center 7:30 p.m. $9, $6 with BYU orstu: 5 & 9002 ‘02 judy ‘Aepsinyy ‘epsinyy ‘pleiayAjteq “| think finally found my seniors/students. (801) 581-7100. SING JOY IN CONCERT — “Praise |