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First Wish is the debut album by trumpet player Chris Botti
Chris Botti
Christopher Stephen "Chris" Botti , is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2007, Botti was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album. On December 4, 2009, he was nominated for three more Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Long Form Music Video...

. It was released by Verve Forecast Records
Verve Forecast Records
Verve Forecast Records is a record label specializing in cutting-edge material which was founded in 1967 by Verve Records and since been revived twice....

 on February 28, 1995.

Track listing

Personnel

  • Chris Botti
    Chris Botti
    Christopher Stephen "Chris" Botti , is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2007, Botti was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album. On December 4, 2009, he was nominated for three more Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Long Form Music Video...

     - Trumpet, Keyboards, Piano
  • Cyro Baptista
    Cyro Baptista
    Cyro Baptista is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music....

     - Surdo, Shaker
  • Joe Bonadio - Percussion
  • Michael Brecker
    Michael Brecker
    Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

     - Tenor Saxophone (on track 5)
  • Edie Brickell
    Edie Brickell
    Edie Arlisa Brickell is an American singer-songwriter best known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went #4 on the US Albums Chart.-Life and career:...

     - Vocal (on track 4)
  • Steve Ferrone
    Steve Ferrone
    Steven "Steve" Ferrone is a British drummer.He was a member of the Average White Band, and has recorded and performed with numerous other high-profile acts, including Slash, Chaka Khan, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Scritti Politti...

     - Drums
  • Shane Fontayne
    Shane Fontayne
    Shane Fontayne is the professional name of English rock guitarist Mick Barakan. 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 Street Band three years earlier...

     - Guitar
  • Mitchell Froom
    Mitchell Froom
    -Career:Froom began his career as a keyboard player in Sonoma County, California. The band Crossfire featured two keyboards players; Mitchell on one side of the stage and brother David on the other with Gary Pihl on guitar...

     - Wurlitzer, Organ
  • Morris Goldberg
    Morris Goldberg
    Saxophonist Morris Goldberg, was born in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in the area known as Observatory. He is recognised as one of the early pioneers of Cape Jazz, along with Dollar Brand and Chris McGregor. He left South Africa in the Apartheid years to study in New York, where he now...

     - African Flute
  • Dominic Kanza - Guitar

  • Kevin Killen - Omnichord
  • Paul Livant - Guitar
  • Jerry Marotta
    Jerry Marotta
    Jerry Marotta is a drummer currently residing in Woodstock, New York. He is the brother of Rick Marotta, who is also a well-known drummer and composer....

     - Drums
  • Paul Joseph Moore
    The Blue Nile
    The Blue Nile is an adult alternative/pop band from Glasgow. The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works featured acoustic guitar more prominently.-Early years:...

     - Keyboards, Piano, Omnichord
  • Pino Palladino
    Pino Palladino
    Pino Palladino is a Welsh bass guitarist who gained fame playing primarily rock and roll, blues rock, and rhythm and blues music, although he has been lauded for his ability to play most genres of popular music, including jazz, neo soul, and funk...

    - Bass
  • Sandra Park - Violin
  • Larry Saltzman - Guitar
  • Marc Shulman - Guitar
  • Andy Snitzer - Rhodes, Bass
  • Rebecca Young - Violin


Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1995 Top Contemporary Jazz Albums 18
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