Chris Botti

So that's why those three are on there, um, which I'm so grateful for, to be able to have kind of, you know, done that in the blues genre.

Uh, and but like some of the other artists, to answer your question on there, that I, one in particular that was another huge influence for me personally was this artist, the trumpeter Chris Botti, B-O-T-T-I.

Um, if you don't know who that is, check him out.

I mean, he- He has always been an inspiration for me in so many levels, and I don't wanna monopolize the conversation, but great businessman, great stage presence, beautiful sound, and basically made the trumpet this beautiful sound.

A lot of people hear the trumpet and think, "Oh, it's shrill, it's, it's piercing, it's loud and high, and it's, you know, you don't need a microphone," you know, and just kind of things that stereotype the trumpet.

Whereas Chris Botti has made that instrument the beautiful symphonic, but yet into pop culture.

Like he was like, he's like the modern day Miles Davis actually.

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Oh, Chris Botti.

Unbelievable.

Yeah.