Chris Botti has checked out.

Checked out, that is, from the New York hotel room that has been his home for the last 3-1/2 years.

As he told us in an interview last time he visited, just over a year ago, to headline Blue Note Hawaii’s first-anniversary celebration, Botti believes in keeping his life as unencumbered with possessions as possible.

A few suits and that 1939 Martin Committee large-bore Handcraft trumpet with that 1926 Bach 3 mouthpiece are just about everything he owns.

On his way to Hawaii for Blue Note’s Two-Year Anniversary Celebration, and with several months of concerts and club gigs across three continents pending, he decided to give up his room and take another when he returns to the city for a brief layover in March.

“Since I’m going to be out of New York for three months, they let me check out, and I’m back to living out of one suitcase,” Botti said.

“I like it that way. I own little possessions nor do I need them. You don’t need stuff. It doesn’t matter.”

He was on the phone in Red Bank, N.J., last week. From there he was headed to a one-nighter in Illinois, with a television special to tape in Los Angeles shortly after.

The Grammy award- winning musician returns to the Blue Note Hawaii on Tuesday for a six-night engagement. From Hawaii he goes to Japan for five nights at the Blue Note Tokyo.

“The last year was really rewarding in that we solidified in many ways our relationship with the Blue Note — in Honolulu and Tokyo, and then we went to (the Blue Note) Brazil as well,” Botti said. “And then of course we do our one-month, epic kind of smack-down in the Blue Note New York in December.”

December marked the 13th consecutive year that Botti closed the year with a monthlong engagement at the flagship club in New York.

“Even though it was really really, really, really cold, our numbers were up — which means we’re still growing,” Botti said, adding that after several months in the cold, he is looking forward to a week in Hawaii.

“Although I don’t sit by the pool, it’s great to be coming back,” he said. “I do a little workout and I practice during the day. The hotel where I’ll be staying has me in a room where I can practice.”

Botti is bringing with him an eight-piece group of musicians and vocalists. Some were here with him last year; others were not.

“We keep retooling that aspect of it, and it’s smokin’,” he said. “We changed the guitar player, one keyboard player and the bass player. We have Reggie Hamilton playing bass and — back in our band permanently now — Leonardo Amuedo, the great Brazilian guitar player, who brings that great nylon (string) thing and unbelievable chops to solo.”

Botti explained that despite being a Grammy Award winner — he received the Grammy for best pop instrumental album in 2013 — he doesn’t tour the world like a pop act or rock group that has a set list of hit songs audiences turn out to hear.

“My situation is quite different. What I’m bringing to each individual city is the notion that someone’s gonna go see Chris Botti’s band because no matter what we do it’s going to be taste-making, and I’m gonna bring a gun-slinging, the-best-I-can-find-scouring-the-earth band — not only flexible, but versatile and really going for it.”

Maintaining that level of performance makes change in the ranks a constant.

“The most difficult thing I’ve found, especially when you do 56 shows in 28 nights (in New York), have one travel day and then do nine straight nights — that’s 38 days in a row of hearing your own patter,” he said.

”The only way to keep it interesting for me is to keep moving the parts around, so I don’t think I’ll ever be in a situation where I’ll say, ‘Let this roll forever.’

“At the same time, the women and men in my group have their own careers. Caroline Campbell, our violinist, plays with the Sonos Quartet, so she does that and she plays with us, and if someone gets a call from, say, (singer-songwriter) John Mayer, they may want to go to see what it’s like.”

Botti and his current group of musicians are being captured for all time in a PBS “Great Performances” special they’re taping today in Los Angeles. It’s a long-awaited sequel to “Chris Botti in Boston,” the Grammy-nominated “live” album and DVD he recorded over two nights in Boston’s Symphony Hall in 2008.

“‘Live in Boston’ was basically me being Merv Griffin — we had eight special guests including Sting and Yo-Yo Ma — and I was the host. Subsequently our live show got so much more polished and so much more jazz and cutting-edge,” Botti said.

“Because of ‘Live in Boston,’ several people came to the Blue Note and said, ‘Chris, you need to film your Blue Note show.’ So that’s what we’re doing.”

Botti is squeezing in the PBS taping between a series of shows on the East Coast.

“We tape our PBS show Jan. 26 in L.A., (then) at 6 in the morning we fly to Maine, and after another date on the East Coast, we come to Honolulu,” he noted. “That’s the problem when you add these special gigs and you’ve already got these other gigs booked. You can’t cancel. I’m not in the canceling business; we just get it going.”

After coming here and going to Japan, Botti and his group have dates to play in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore before returning to the United States. He won’t be checking into his Soho hotel until sometime in March.

The man who’s content to own six suits and a unique trumpet isn’t complaining. Botti says he’s played “basically everywhere” except India and Vietnam.

Tax laws in India make playing there unattractive, he said. As for Vietnam, “We’re working on it.”