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So Poland has become a top priority for me, and I've been back 13 times since my first visit." Botti's penchant for Poland at least partly explains why his new album opens with an orchestral arrangement of Chopin's Prelude in C minor.

Several years ago, the trumpeter was commissioned to record a version of this dark, elegiac prelude to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the legendary Polish composer's birth.

and received three nominations in 2010 for the live album Chris Botti In Boston. He was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Corvallis, although he also spent two years of his childhood in Italy.

Coming to prominence with the 2001 recording of his Night Sessions album, Botti established a reputation as a versatile musician in both jazz and pop music for his ability to fuse both styles together.

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Mount Hood's program was headed by Larry Mc Vey, whose band had come to be a proving ground and regular stop for Stan Kenton and Mel Tormé when they were looking for new players.

His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher.

He started playing the trumpet at nine-years-old, and committed to the instrument at age 12 when he heard Miles Davis play "My Funny Valentine".

"I've been seeing someone for about a year," Katie Couric confesses. She has been public with him in the past week, sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden for a Knicks-Celtics game on May 1 and posing with him on the red carpet at Monday's Met gala."Talk about stressful," she says. Nicki Minaj was in front of me; Tom Brady and Gisele Bundhen were behind me. Oops, I already had."But she and Molner, she says, are a happy duo."We're having a great time. "He's six younger than I am," says Couric, who has dated younger men in the past including trumpeter Chris Botti (5 years younger) and entrepreneur Brooks Perlin (17 years her junior). So he's always saying, 'May I get you another Diet Coke, Mrs. '"With daughter Ellie, 21, set to graduate from an Ivy League school in a week and daughter Carrie, 17, a junior in high school, her empty nest is looming. "It's less that I'm worried about being an empty nester than I am at being absolutely flabbergasted at how fast time flies. As my friend John says, 'You're never going to be any younger.

"During a chat Tuesday with USA TODAY about her new Milk Mustache ad being unveiled on her Katie talk show Friday, Couric, 56, explained, "My parents met in Chicago so it's always had a special place in my heart."First Look: Katie Couric, daughters get 'milk'Although she doesn't want to talk about him, she can't help but talk about him. "She offers that her mom "really likes him." And laughs, saying, "I encouraged him to be very Eddie Haskell around her.