Jake Botts and Friends

Name: Jake Botts and Friends
Start: 2024-10-04T23:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-05T01:00:00-05:00
Location: Rudy's Jazz Room (809 Gleaves St., Nashville, TN)

Schedule

Fri Oct 04 2024 at 11:00 pm to Sat Oct 05 2024 at 01:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

Rudy's Jazz Room (809 Gleaves St., Nashville, TN) | Nashville, TN

Saxophonist Jake Botts is a dynamic and versatile musician with a bebop and soul-influenced vocabulary, a unique sense of melody, and a pure, powerful, tone. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he graduated with honors from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City in 2017. Jake has established himself as one of the premier freelance instrumentalists in Music City’s rapidly expanding creative music scene. Jake has toured throughout America, Europe, and Asia with prominent artists including Kelly Clarkson, Cory Wong, Lauren Diagle, and more.
In addition to his work with the aforementioned artists, Jake has performed and/or recorded with The Black Keys, John Legend, Meghan Trainor, Gladys Knight, Victor Wooten, Dan + Shay, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and countless others. He has performed on NBC’s The Kelly Clarkson Show, The TODAY show, the Billboard Music Awards, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and countless other television appearances
In addition to his sideman ventures, Jake is also an accomplished bandleader and songwriter, regularly hosting jazz jam sessions in Nashville and releasing his 2022 debut LP, Global Works, under his own name. He is also a founding member of the Nashville afrobeat/world music project, Crooked Rhythm Band #1.
Jake Botts - Saxophone
Andrew Golden - Trumpet
Adam McPhail - Guitar
Alec Newnam - Electric Bass
Drums - Willie B.