Chris Botti with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Chris Botti plays the Atlanta Symphony Hall on Friday, February 26, 2027, at 8 PM. He's not coming alone: he'll be backed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, so the night is a full collaboration between the trumpeter and the orchestra rather than a solo set with a few strings in the background.

The program centers on Vol. 1, Botti's acoustic jazz album. It's a record that leans into the softer, more melodic side of jazz, and hearing it played with a full orchestra gives those arrangements a lot more room to breathe than they would in a smaller club. If you've heard his work before, you know he tends toward the lyrical, and Vol. 1 fits right into that—it's the kind of music that works just as well when you're sitting still and listening as it does when it's playing in the background while you're doing something else.

Botti is a Grammy-winning trumpeter, and this is one of those shows where the trumpet is the clear lead, with the orchestra providing the textures and the swell around it. The two aren't just sharing the stage; they're playing together, so the whole evening is built around that pairing. It's a night of acoustic jazz played at a symphonic scale, and it's the same program he's taking on the road.

The show is at Atlanta Symphony Hall on Friday, February 26, 2027, starting at 8 PM.