Sound Board to Welcome Chris Botti in June 2015

MotorCity Casino Hotel will welcome Chris Botti to Sound Board on Friday, June 12, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.

Trumpeter Chris Botti's new CD Impressions is the latest in a stellar parade of albums, starting with 2004's When I Fall In Love and continuing with To Love Again, Italia, and the CD/DVD Chris Botti In Boston, firmly establishing him as the world's largest selling jazz instrumentalist. Add to that a Grammy Award for "Best Pop Instrumental Album" and four No.1 albums on Billboard's Jazz Albums listings.

After attending Indiana University and studying with the highly regarded jazz educator David Baker, the great trumpet teacher Bill Adam, jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw, and jazz saxophonist George Coleman, Botti moved to New York in the mid '80s. His early career was spent crafting his skills in settings reaching from the Buddy Rich Big Band and Frank Sinatra to Natalie Cole and Joni Mitchell. Throughout the '90s and into the new century, Botti played extensively with Paul Simon and had an especially creative association with Sting.

Now a major artist in his own right performing worldwide and selling more than three million albums, Botti has found a form of creative expression that begins in jazz and expands beyond the limits of any single genre. With Impressions and the albums that preceded it, Chris Botti has thoroughly established himself as one of the important, innovative figures of the contemporary music world.

Tickets ($50, $40 and $35) go on sale Thursday, January 8 via Ticketmaster. To purchase tickets, please call Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or visit on line at www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available through the Sound Board Box Office on Wednesday and from Friday through Sunday.