Chris Botti and John Splithoff cover the Elvis Presley song "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" live in concert at SF Jazz in San Francisco, California on January 10, 2024. Are You Lonesome Tonight? was originally written in 1926 by Lou Handman and Roy Turk. Elvis Presely released his cover as a single in 1960; his version reached Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and became one of Presley's signature songs. Chris Botti released a cover of the song on his eighth studio album, the duets album To Love Again (2005), featuring Scottish singer Paul Buchanan on vocals. Up until recently, Botti had not played the song live in many years.
Chris Botti is a Grammy Award winning jazz and pop trumpet player from Corvalis, Oregon. John Splithoff is a Chicago-raised and New York City based singer-songwriter. To purchase his music or merch, visit https://www.johnsplithoff.com.
Joining Chris Botti and John Splithoff onstage were Leonardo Amuedo (guitar), Julian "J3PO” Pollack (piano), Dan "Chimy" Chmielinski (bass), and Lee Pearson (drums).
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Chris Botti - SFJazz Show Announcement
“With his finely etched features and piercing green eyes, trumpeter Chris Botti combines matinee idol looks with the simmering lyricism of an expert balladeer” (The Mercury News). Botti, the world’s best-selling jazz instrumentalist, was never the same after hearing Miles Davis’ version of “My Funny Valentine” when he was 12. A trumpeter with a sumptuous, enveloping tone, fluent phrasing and sense of space, Botti became a masterly musician equally at home in the realms of jazz and pop.
He honed his craft performing and recording with stars like Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and Sting, who featured him on his Brand New Day tour and who was one the stellar artists on Botti’s chart-topping 2009 album Live in Boston, recorded with the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Botti’s 2012 release Impressions won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album, and he makes his Blue Note Records debut in 2023 with Vol. 1, his first new recording in over a decade. Stepping back from the lush orchestral arrangements of his recent work, Botti returns to an intimate, small group dynamic on the album, focusing on classic standards like “Old Folks,” “Blue in Green,” “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,” and “Someday My Prince Will Come,” among others. Produced by 16-time Grammy-winner David Foster, Vol. 1 features performances by violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Taylor Eigsti, guitarist Gilad Hekselman, and drummer Vinnie Colaiuta.
Botti’s SFJAZZ shows have become a New Year tradition, and always sell out.
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John Splithoff official bio:
If it’s true that we are all products of our environment, then the multi-talented songwriter, singer and instrumentalist John Splithoff finds himself imbued with the vital and eclectic spirit of two of America’s most diverse musical cities. One listen to his smoky, soulful croon and the breezy way his songs half-step and skip smoothly along the stage, and his hometown Chicago roots are obvious. It was there that Splithoff cut his teeth as a songwriter and performer, and he carried that warm, compositional adventurousness with him to his next and current stop in New York City. The urban soul of the Big Apple taught him to treat the swarms of people buzzing around him as an audience ripe for his evolving pop sound. As Splithoff has grown and moved across various gritty concrete landscapes, so too has his music, which deftly incorporates myriad elements from his surroundings and packages them into one unmistakable pop-soul-dance-urban experience. Splithoff’s style is far from the kitchen-sink mentality permeating much of today’s airwaves: one of his strongest skills may be his ability to draw from his deep bag of tricks—piano, guitar, melody, rhythm— with precision and harnessed emotion. Now, 2016 finds him writing, touring, and releasing new material, with his sights set on expanding well beyond the two cities of his origin. To paraphrase Splithoff’s own confident delivery and assurances in his high-climbing, finger-snapping statement of a single, “Sing to You”: You don’t have to worry about a single thing, just let him sing to you
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