A Thousand Kisses Deep is the sixth CD by trumpet player Chris Botti on which he bluntly celebrates his melancholy playing. His thin trumpet sound is basically timeless and could make for a beautiful jazz CD, but what he does on A Thousand Kisses Deep has as much to do with jazz as Herb Alpert. This is largely due to the accompaniment that is so outdated that it certainly would not have made a
… mistake in the early nineties (during the easy tune craze). More than ten years later it looks tame and even boring. That is why A Thousand Kisses Deep is actually especially suitable for the lifts of very high hotels and insurance buildings. (AD)more
