Night Sessions

Night Sessions
Studio album by Chris Botti
Released	October 2, 2001
Genre	Jazz
Length	52:20
Label	Columbia
Producer	Kipper
Chris Botti chronology
Slowing Down the World (1999) Night Sessions (2001) December (2002)

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Night Sessions is the fourth studio album by trumpet player Chris Botti. This is his first album to be released by Columbia Records on October 2, 2001.

I had been on the road for two straight years when I found myself with a window of only ten weeks to write and record this album. I felt energized by the challenge and asked my friend, Kipper, to co-write and produce. Renting a house in the Hollywood Hills where we could work and live, with ample room for other musicians and friends, we started composing material. We sensed freedom after dark - the phone was quieter and there were less distractions around the house as the light of the LA basin began to glow. We recorded only after the sun had set, often until it rose the next morning. These are the "Night Sessions." Enjoy. Chris Botti

Track listing

Personnel

• Chris Botti – trumpet (1–3, 5–12)
• Kipper – keyboards (1–3, 5–12), drum programming (6, 9)
• Billy Childs – additional keyboards (2, 5, 6, 9), keyboards (4)
• Jeff Lorber – additional keyboards (2, 3)
• Jeff Young – additional keyboards (2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12)
• Dominic Miller – guitars (1–3, 5–7, 9–11)
• Shane Fontayne – guitars (2)
• Heitor Pereira – guitars (7)
• Marc Shulman – guitars (8)
• Jimmy Johnson – bass (1, 3, 8–11)
• Jon Ossman – bass (2)
• Christian McBride – bass (5, 7, 12)
• Abe Laboriel, Jr. – drums (1, 2, 7, 9, 12)
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11)
• Luis Conte – percussion (2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12)
• Kazu Matsui – shakuhachi (1)
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (3, 6)
• Shawn Colvin – vocals (5)
• Lani Groves – additional vocals (5)
• Camilla – vocals (8)

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