Chris Botti (trumpet) "Streets Ahead"

[Hammerthingys42]

You know who blew my trumpet?

Eartha Kitt when I nailed her in an airplane bathroom.

[orfanik]

someone can tell me who's the guitarist please ? i'm looking for his name for months !!! thank you :)

[12goofyboy]

this song is street aheads.

[rangerbylaw]

Betty Grable.

[nezzynez]

@rangerbylaw WHO'S BETTY GRABLE?!?

[gangstercorleone]

OK, let me rephrase my critique. Chris Botti's talent is better represented by other works out there - other songs, some of them plain ol' covers nonetheless.

I have tried to make my critiques of Chris work specific to this song and what it represents (type-wise.) Jamming is OK, so is paying one's bills as long as one knows where one's muse is, the one that moves hearts and minds in the realm of critical acclaim. You are a musician, you can appreciate that.

I'm Gangster Corleone

Peace out.

[EvilBiasFree]

Six seasons and a movie!

[jonbhorn]

He is not playing! Notice at 2:32 the trill from E to F starts before his fingers start to move! That is just not possible!

[JArmandoCorona]

excelente musica, excelente trompetista y musicos . chris botti

[gangstercorleone]

TRUTH # 1: The enthusiasm displayed in this video is in inverse proportion to the musicianship or musical quotient woefully lacking in this tune.

TRUTH # 2: "Streets Ahead " is an irredeemably crappy tune - the kind that more savvy musicians jam on without committing to tape or recording it. Musical landfills are already bursting with this kind of mindless pap without Mr. Botti adding to them.

OK?

I'm Gangster Corleone

Did I say I was just clearing my throat?

Well, I am.

[anonymous1461]

@gangstercorleone Nice try sounding smart, 'gangster'. FYI, YOUR type of music is clogging up mainstream media with mindless and ludicrous garbage that contributes to society's moral deterioration. And it shows too. Don't believe me? Look what happened to Lil' Wayne. Arrested for illegally possessing marijuana and guns. Isn't it true for all of your "brothers" in prison? You don't even have a f****** video!! Well, good luck in life :)

[gangstercorleone]

@anonymous1461 YOU don't know what my type of music is. Au contraire I know what this type of music the above video represents: mind numbing fusion pap, irreducibly retrograde and unoriginal. If you think this music is great, then follow the Pied Piper and see where that leads you.

I am Gangster Corleone

[gangstercorleone]

TRUTH # 1: The enthusiasm displayed in this video is in inverse proportion to the musicianship and musical quotient that is woefully lacking in this tune.

TRUTH # 2: "Streets Ahead " is an irredeemably crappy tune - the kind that more savvy musicians jam on without committing to tape or recording it. Musical landfills are already bursting with this kind of mindless pap without Mr. Botti adding to them.

OK?

I'm Gangster Corleone

Did I say I was just clearing my throat?

Well, I am.

[gangstercorleone]

TRUTH # 1: The enthusiasm displayed in this video is in inverse proportion to the musicianship and musical quotient that is woefully lacking in this tune.

TRUTH # 2: "Streets Ahead " is an irredeemably crappy tune - the kind that more savvy musicians may jam on without committing to tape or let alone record. Musical landfills are already bursting with this kind of pap without Mr. Botti adding to them. OK?

I'm Gangster Corleone

Did I say I was just clearing my throat?

[anonymous1461]

@gangstercorleone Oh, and I almost forgot: how ironic when you call Kenny G (and in this case, Botti too) a dilettante, for you probably made your account just to rip on less-mainstream music in the safety and comfort of your basement. In public all of our 101 people who are in favor of jazz would tie you up and burn you at the stake, just like all of your "brothers" who are, in reality, demoralized martyrs with no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. So have a nice day.

[gangstercorleone]

@anonymous1461 You aren't for real. "Streets Ahead" is an up-tempo "Easy Listening/Soft Jazz" tune. What's "less mainstream" about that? And while on the subject, your characterization of this mindless pap as jazz without any qualifiers lumps you in with the other jazz dilettantes around here.

And last but by no means least, your insinuated affection with burning dissenters "at the stake" hints at how far from the tree branches you have come as a primate.

I'm Gangster Corleone

[anonymous1461]

@gangstercorleone For the record, you never talked about what type of music YOU like, so you can't be given any credibility for your opinions (i.e. no proof). But, it is, and ONLY, your opinion, so it can't be seen as true anyway (so why should I care?). Plus, I don't think your even allowed to hate on this because you don't appreciate how much work this requires. Developing skills on the trumpet takes years, while making "insinuated affections" takes only minutes. Thus, GTFO.

[gangstercorleone]

@anonymous1461 Stop pussy-footin' around the subject now that your cant and sophistry has been exposed. Against all odds focus, please focus. In that connection here is a TASK that does not involve multi-step instructions ......

TASK: Explain to the peanut gallery here why this song and or video represents the apogee of horn playing, let alone compositional or improvisational artistry.

Did I say I was Gangster Corleone?

Well I am now.

[anonymous1461]

@gangstercorleone Are you really that stubborn? Fine: I might be contradicting myself, but this video does not explicitly represent the "apogee" of horn playing, but rather it is a work that intends to evoke a certain feeling in audiences: relaxation. Do you even know what "improvisational artistry" is? And are you saying that you alone can do better music than him? You never insinuated about your own musical abilities in the first place! You are being fallacious...why?

[gangstercorleone]

@anonymous1461

1. This song is to relaxation what a root canal with no anesthesia is to modern dentistry. The pairing of the bassline, sophomoric in the extreme, with the paint-by-numbers horn lines is a poor fit.

2. If I have to explain to you what "improvisational artistry" is then we started this whole thing backwards. Read up on what the soul of jazz is. (The be-boppers took it to its dizzying extreme.)

I am Gangster Corleone

[anonymous1461]

@gangstercorleone It's your opinion, and I'm fine with that. Although I must say that you have a big vocabulary, rather than having the characteristics that are paramount so as to labeling yourself as a "savant" in music. Honestly, I would prefer to finish this conversation on this note: I honor your opinion, but please be careful how you word it. You'll never know who's feelings you'll hurt... 

[gangstercorleone]

@anonymous1461 Sorry for the double post. I had forgotten to thread it via the "reply" feature.

Peace out.

[gangstercorleone]

@anonymous1461 - Again, please focus. My musical abilities or lack thereof have little to nothing do with this. I no more have to be a musical savant than I have to be Shakespeare to judge a general work of literature.

I am Gangster Corleone

[gangstercorleone]

A bunch of posers dissembling in front of an impressionable gaggle of dilettantes.

This is way too embarrassing to be on Youtube. Seriously .......

I'm Gangster Corleone

[TheLeoOfCostaRica]

@gangstercorleone

Oh, get your head out of your ass.

You're streets behind.

[gangstercorleone]

@TheLeoOfCostaRica Hate to break it to you Memsahib. Your horn-blowing hero who is pushing 50 right now is about to end up like Kenny G - the "jazz" dilettante poster boy whose 50-cent CD's are now clogging every jazz aisle because nobody wants to buy 'em. Why, because his so-called smooth jazz gives people the runs on short order.

You want plastic? Kenny's got plastic. So does your hero (Mr. Chris Botti) here.

Did I say truth hurts like a mother?

Well, I am now.

I am Gangster Corleone.

[TheLeoOfCostaRica]

@gangstercorleone

Horn-blowing hero? You're such an asshole that it's becoming cartoonish.

There's a big difference between a comment praising a jazz musician and a comment meant to call a douchebag like you on his pretentious bullshit.

Considering that NOWHERE in my post did I mention Chris Botti, you clearly didn't see that my comment was meant to...well, call a douchebag (you) on his pretentious bullshit.

Now that we are clear on that, I will repeat:

Get your head out of your ass.

[cristhiancoco13]

i would like can play this song in the bass... someone can help me? i´ld like find the tabs for bass....

[LETYZ18]

Beautiful  Jazz ..I Like Chris Botti For ever!!!

[lovefortheloveoflove]

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[dashunderscoredash]

Damn, this band is streets ahead of anything else.

[bigballsguy]

if you have to ask your streets behind

[SharinganBob]

this song is streets ahead of the rest

[peedub]

I guess I have to put it to you all like this, imagine some really good bass players playing "Portrait Of Tracy" or "Continuum." Victor Bailey does an amazing version of the latter, but it's still not as good as Jaco's version. Hope that makes sense.

[agigio9]

astonishing performance!! coool chris: )

[peedub]

@AintLifeGarand It just doesn't have that drive like the original. Just my opinion, don't get yourself worked up. I like the original better.

[DragonSyndicate1]

@peedub No..He's right...listen again. This version is way more upbeat, the line is faster and bettererer....

[peedub]

@DragonSyndicate1 The bridge, I'm just not feeling it. Sorry fellas, but to ME, it just doesn't have that same groove that Jimmy Johnson has on the original. Hey, it's a matter of opinion that's all. Now, I understand that "live" is generally different from studio, but this is lacking, again to me. We all hear differently. And that's OK!

[AintLifeGarand]

@peedub Noted. Maybe agreed.

[peedub]

The bass line in this live version is such a let down from the one Jimmy Johnson plays in the original song.

[AintLifeGarand]

@peedub "let-down", my scrawny white b*tt. Listen again...

[mkroxygirl94]

pierce is streets ahead of this music. :)

[SaveTheMooses]

Verbal wildfire!

[lotusbuds2000]

wow CB is great smooth jazz player...his groove is perfect for SJ...GIRL DRUMMER IS ROCKIN' great...pretty too!! GREAT BAND, GREAT Chris B....I"M HAPPY AS A LARK!! Thanks for posting!

[geraldbrowne]

he's the best

[BMakc]

he so cold i like his style

[ForrestCardinal]

i like it

[jazztrumpet251]

then you're gay

[ForrestCardinal]

@jazztrumpet251 then grow up

[ham389]

lbanez3789, he was glad to have a job shaking something besides a crack pipe,glad to have job and glad to be with excellent folks !

[Ibanez3789]

I've never seen anyone so happy to be playing a shaker before.

[lotusbuds2000]

@Ibanez3789 Now that's happiness...THIS BAND and CB are pure joy!! Amen.

[TonyF273]

@Ibanez3789 Must be happy for his next pay check. haha

[Cisco650]

I like chirs but i wonder on your opinons of Lady gaga (i hate her)

[neiluj34]

Lady what?

[KNIGHTSHIPPER]

Thanks Chris for the great musicians and music.

[guitarsrmine]

I'd put Chris up there with ANYBODY-He's superb!! And very smooth and tasteful!!

[hollaboutit]

this is funky.

[26nava]

Superb !!!!

Si señor.

[guitarsrmine]

I wonder if Herb Alpert was one of Chris's idols? I hear alot of Herb in his playing style(and I love it. Herb ALpert was the reason I start playng trumpet 40 years ago)

[cassaerullante]

who is the drummer ?!?!?!

[aristix6]

Karen Teperberg- she's great!

[dama891]

super:)

[roornc]

I constantly don't like Botti because he is so famous and there are other guys out there that absolutely smash him that are not nearly as famous, but hey he's making millions being a trumpet player like Kenny G did playing soft jazz.

Why isn't real Jazz more famous than his stuff?

And by the way I liked the video.

[sugad24]

It's called fusion jazz. He mixes elements of "cool jazz" with funk/rock styles. There is no such thing as "real jazz." Just because you are unable to appreciate it doesn't mean it doesn't take skill or it isn't jazz. Chris Botti is a really good player.

Maybe what you are referring to as "real jazz" is another style of jazz -- maybe hard bop or swing? Whatever it is, it doesn't mean this is not jazz.

[Jazzcrazy91]

Yo roornc. That ain't cool man. What do you mean by real jazz? What is real jazz? Jazz is composed of many different styles man. Smooth, funk, swing, bebop, bossa nova, latin, etc. Man this is jazz! If you don't like it than okay whatever but Botti is pretty hard to beat dude. Don't slam the greats.

[roornc]

What I mean is traditional jazz. The internet is used for debate, just trying to put my opinion out there. Botti is the man and a hell of a player, but when you put him side to side with Wynton, Hargrove or Terrence Blanchard, its easy to see who has the most amount of talent. Still, I'm not trying to be a hater, Botti is better than me.

[nyboy010101]

well said Jazzcrazy91.

[amt0893]

esta super este video

como me gustaria ir a un concierto de el!!!!!!!!!!

cuando ira a regresar a Mexico????

[dwellmer]

Does anyone know if this DVD is available for sale? I know it was recorded in LA, and if I remember correctly, it was a Direct TV 101 special.

[UnitedByFateBass]

I am the type of person that loves heavey rock metal and bands like, rise against, escape the fate, blessthefalls, and skipknot. but for some reason after hearing this made me inspired.

I am a bass player and now im like.. amazed at this.

[JazzySaxE]

it's cuz they have a style simular to rock and funk which is why you like it

[kdblonde]

yum

[Liannenadia]

Great music, thanks for uploading!

[kenyasong]

nice