''Slowing Down the World'' is the third studio album by trumpet player

Chris Botti Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album, Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album Impressions ...

. It was released by

GRP Records GRP® Records (Grusin-Rosen Productions) is a jazz record label founded by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1978. Distributed by Verve Records, GRP® was originally known for its digital recordings that focuses on its jazz genre. History With Gr ...

on June 22, 1999. Botti himself provided vocals on "Same Girl".

Track listing

Personnel

– trumpet, keyboards (1, 3, 4, 6, 7), arrangements (4), drum programming (7), vocals (9) * Harvey Jones – keyboards (1-8), acoustic piano (6) *

Jeff Lorber Jeffrey H. Lorber (born November 4, 1952) is an American keyboardist, composer, and record producer. After six previous nominations, Lorber won his first Grammy Award on January 28, 2018 for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for ''Prototype'' ...

– acoustic piano (1), electric piano (1, 3, 7, 10) *

Jeff Young Jeffrey "Jeff" Young (born March 31, 1962) is an American guitarist. He graduated from Musicians Institute in 1985, and is best known for his time with the thrash metal band Megadeth, appearing on the 1988 album '' So Far, So Good... So What! ...

– acoustic piano (3), electric piano (3, 4, 8) * Bob James – electric piano (5) * C. J. Vanston – keyboards (9) *

Shane Fontayne Michael Barakan (born 29 April 1954), known as Shane Fontayne, is an English rock guitarist. Active since the 1970s, he was the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen during the 1992–1993 "Other Band" Tour, as Springsteen had disbanded his own E St ...

– guitars (1, 8, 10) *

Tim Pierce Tim Pierce (born 1958 in Albuquerque) is an American session guitarist. He has worked for artists such as Joe Cocker, Crowded House, Goo Goo Dolls, Michael Jackson, Beth Hart, Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Collins, and th ...

– guitars (1-5, 7), acoustic guitar (6) * Marc Shulman – guitars (1, 7) *

Dean Parks Weldon Dean Parks (born December 6, 1946) is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Parks has one Grammy nomination. Albums Parks was member of the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los A ...

– acoustic guitar (6) *

Greg Leisz Gregory Brian Leisz ( ; born September 18, 1949) is an American musician. He is a songwriter, recording artist, and producer. He plays guitar, dobro, mandolin, banjo, lap steel and pedal steel guitar. Biography Leisz grew up in the garage ba ...

–

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

(6, 10) * John Ossman – bass (1, 3, 7) * Armand Sabal Lecco –

piccolo bass A piccolo bass is either an electric bass or acoustic double bass which has been tuned to a higher frequency, usually one octave higher than conventional bass tuning. This allows bass players to use higher registers during soloing while retaining ...

(2) *

Tony Levin Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (19 ...

– bass (2) *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass guitarist and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts ...

– bass (4, 5, 8) *

Larry Klein Larry Klein is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is based in Los Angeles. He began his career as a bassist, playing with jazz artists Willie Bobo, Freddie Hubbard, Carmen McRae, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Way ...

– bass (6, 10) * Garry Hughes – drum programming (1, 4, 5), keyboards (8) * John Robinson – drums (1, 3–7) *

Peter Erskine Peter Clark Erskine (born June 5, 1954) is an American jazz drummer who was a member of the jazz fusion groups Weather Report and Steps Ahead. Early life and education Erskine was born in Somers Point, New Jersey, U.S. He began playing the d ...

– drums (2, 4, 8, 10) *

Shawn Pelton Shawn Pelton is an American drummer and percussionist. He has recorded with a wide range of artists and has been a first call player since moving to New York in the late 1980s. Pelton has recorded with artists such as Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, N ...

– hi-hat (1) *

Alex Acuña Alejandro Neciosup Acuña (born December 12, 1944), known professionally as Alex Acuña, is a Peruvian–American jazz drummer and percussionist. He has also worked as an educator at University of California, Los Angeles, and Berklee College of ...

– percussion (1-3, 5, 6, 8) * Joe Bonadio – percussion (4) *

Jerry Marotta Jerome David Marotta (born February 6, 1956) is an American drummer who resides in Woodstock, New York. He is the younger brother of Rick Marotta; Rick is also a drummer and composer. Career Marotta was a member of the bands Arthur, Hurley & ...

– percussion (4) * Michael Davis – trombone (3) *

Anne Dudley Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genre ...

– string arrangements (1-3, 5, 11), orchestra conductor (1-5, 11) *

Rob Mathes Rob Mathes (born September 10, 1970) is an American record producer, music arranger, composer, songwriter, and performer. He also writes bluesy spiritual-pop music.Gavyn Wright Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London Session Orchestra and Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He is best known for his orchestral arrangements on pop productions (including Elton John, Simply Red, Bush, Mecano, ...

– concertmaster (1-5, 11) *

The London Session Orchestra The London Session Orchestra was a film, TV, and pop orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1993 and led by Gavyn Wright and is known for its work on movies such as ''Run Lola Run'' (1998) ''V for Vendetta'' (2005), and '' Mission: Impossibl ...

– orchestra (1-5, 11) *

Jonatha Brooke Jonatha Brooke (born January 23, 1964) is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist from Massachusetts, United States. Her music merges elements of folk, rock and pop, often with poignant lyrics and complex harmonies. She has been a ...

– vocals (2) *

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– vocals (4)

Production

* Chris Botti – producer (1-8, 11), mixing (9), liner notes * Eric Calvi – co-producer (1-8, 11) * Harvey Jones – producer (1-8, 11) * Andy Snitzer – producer (1-8, 11) * Bobby Colomby – producer (9), mixing (9) * Larry Klein – producer (10) * Chris Roberts – executive producer * Marc Silag – executive producer * Dan Marnien – engineer * Greg Burns – assistant engineer * Walter Clisson – assistant engineer * David Cole – assistant engineer * Andy Haller – assistant engineer * Larry Hirsch – assistant engineer * Tom Jenkins – assistant engineer * Simon Osborne – assistant engineer * Steve Price – assistant engineer * Ray Pyle – assistant engineer * Andy Smith – assistant engineer * Mike Shipley – mixing (1-8, 10, 11) * Steve Hall – mastering at Future Disc (North Hollywood, California). * Hollis King – art direction, design * Rocky Schenck – photography

Charts

References

{{Authority control Chris Botti albums 1999 albums Albums produced by Larry Klein Albums produced by Bobby Colomby GRP Records albums 1990s instrumental albums