Trumpeter Chris Botti can move seamlessly between genres, from R&B to rock to classical, creating a different mood with each composition. Still, jazz remains his preferred style, the one that best showcases his playing and improvisational skills and the one that has helped him garner fans in every corner of the globe.

"I've played all over the world and places you would never think loved jazz do," said Botti, who has sold more than three million albums worldwide and whose 2013 recording "Impressions" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.

Botti will take the stage Nov. 8 at New Jersey Performing Arts Center as part of the TD James Moody Jazz Festival. Most of the the sixth annual event's programming, which runs from Nov. 4-12, are at NJPAC. The opening show, the Terell Stafford All-Stars playing the music of Dizzy Gillespie on Nov. 4, is at Bethany Baptist Church.

The festival is named in honor of saxophonist James Moody, who grew up in Newark. Moody, who died in 2010, predominantly played bebop style jazz and recorded as a sideman with Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Max Roach.

This year's performers include the Grammy Award-winning quartet Manhattan Transfer; Newark-born singer Carrie Jackson; and Christian McBride and Dianne Reeves. The festival is also celebrating the centennials of Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald

Botti has played at the festival before. He jokes that he feels like he's been on a "12 to 13 year world tour," one that's taken him to prestigious stages from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House and partnered him with respected musicians from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga. His audience, he said, is those ages one to 19 and 28 to 88.

"I think somehow fate comes in when you're 20 and you have to go rock or R&B or hip hop for a while, then they come back and stay with it," he said. "Or knock wood, that's what seems to be happening."

Botti promises a night of multiple music genres, classic songs and originals and a true performance.

"It's not just me standing up there with a trumpet, a lazy boring jazz act,"he said. "I craft a show with amazing musicians that features more than one style of music that enables the audience to feel multiple emotions."

TD JAMES MOODY JAZZ FESTIVAL

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

1 Center St., Newark

Tickets: $29-89, available online at www.njpac.org. Prices vary by show. Nov. 4 - 12.

Natalie Pompilio is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She can be reached at nataliepompilio@yahoo.com. Find her on Twitter @nataliepompilio. Find NJ.com/Entertainment on Facebook.