Chris Botti
Blue Note131 West 3rd Street, New York 10012
Chris Botti brings his 22nd Annual Holiday Residency to Blue Note for a January 3 performance. The trumpeter’s four-week Blue Note engagement runs from mid-December into early January, including Christmas and New Year’s Eve, and this date closes the run. Botti has made the club a December home since 2005, and past residency nights have included impromptu guests such as Sting and John Mayer.
Botti is identified in the listing as a world-renowned trumpeter. The Wall Street Journal has called him “a December institution in the Big Apple at the Blue Note,” a fitting description of an artist whose yearly return has become part of the club’s calendar. He has described the long-running engagement as “like coming home,” adding: “The best city, the best club, the greatest people.”
Blue Note Jazz Club is a dedicated listening room in the heart of Manhattan's jazz district, where the music is the focus and the space is designed to let the sound fill the room. The club features a stage with a small audience area, and the atmosphere is one of quiet concentration on the music. Shows typically begin at 8:00 PM with a second set at 10:30 PM, and the audience sits on chairs close to the stage. The club has a bar, and drinks are available. The experience is primarily about listening to live jazz, with occasional gospel and soul performances, and the audience often stays to talk and enjoy the music after the sets.