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Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (B.L.U.E.) was a musical group consisting of drummer Bill Bruford, bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Torn, and trumpeter Chris Botti. The group's origins can be traced to Torn's ECM Records album Cloud About Mercury (1987), which featured Levin and Bruford (along with Mark Isham playing trumpet).
In the late 1990s, Botti was a member of Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, a group exploring a more experimental, jazz fusion-oriented sound than his solo records. Starting in 1999, Botti toured with Sting as a featured soloist in the Brand New Day tour.
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities consisted of drummer Bill Bruford, bassist Tony Levin, guitarist David Torn, and trumpeter Chris Botti. Recorded in Woodstock...
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Formed by bassist Levin and drummer Bill Bruford (who had worked together as the rhythm section of King Crimson), the group also included guitarist David Torn and trumpeter Chris Botti. Torn, Bruford and Levin had recorded together on Torn's album Cloud About Mercury ten years before this.
Suave jazz man, Chris Botti, fills a role very unlike the sensuous smooth flavors of his solo discography. He takes the Mark Isham parts in my collective memory, but plays with a toyful exuberance that caught me by surprise. This is experimental music.
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Jul 21, 2018 · The drums were still set up and miked and the studio was available for the next few days, so Tony proposed bringing trumpeter Chris Botti up from NYC to replace a busy Mark Isham, and we got to work right away on what became Bruford Levin’s Upper Extremities (BLUE).
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