Greg Carmichael of contemporary smooth jazz band Acoustic Alchemy once said, “For a lot of people, instrumental jazz music is just sound that plays in the background.” But on the ABS-CBN night of the ...
CALL HIM POP. Call him jazz. Call him, if you must, a smooth operator. But whatever you do, don’t call the music that trumpeter Chris Botti makes smooth jazz. “We’re not smooth jazz,” Botti says, ...