After watching this show, not only you loose yourself in celine`s great voice and performance, but you also realise that this BD DVD is wrapped up in an unforgettable presentation of high quality imagery and sound, which really does make the show come alive in your own living room. I recommend this Blu-ray disc to all Celine Dion fans, but also to those who haven`t had the chance of getting to know her work on a closer level.
Go get it now !!
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I saw this film on its theatrical release, way back in '88/89, as a part of a run of late night movies on jazz themes, screened at the Cambridge Arts Cinema, as it was then known. I was completely enthralled and enchanted. Some films are intensely and self-consciously didactic, or analytical, or escapist, romantic, challenging, soothing or whatever... This film seems to be a wonderfully un-self-conscious mixture of biography, homage, celebration, voyeurism and more besides, all delivered with a dream like whimsy, and an artistic eye for bleak, melancholy beauty. The music is fabulous, both old and new, the performance footage revealing and entertaining, and the panoply of talking heads have a lot of interesting things to say.
I saw this film on its theatrical release, way back in '88/89, as a part of a run of late night movies on jazz themes, screened at the Cambridge Arts Cinema, as it was then known. I was completely enthralled and enchanted. Some films are intensely and self-consciously didactic, or analytical, or escapist, romantic, challenging, soothing or whatever... This film seems to be a wonderfully un-self-conscious mixture of biography, homage, celebration, voyeurism and more besides, all delivered with a dream like whimsy, and an artistic eye for bleak, melancholy beauty. The music is fabulous, both old and new, the performance footage revealing and entertaining, and the panoply of talking heads have a lot of interesting things to say.
In my opinion, this is the perfect movie. The photography is amazing thanks to Bert Stern being a stills man first of all, and a film maker second. His work shows the best of both worlds. The music is so fantastic that the audience actually listens to it!!!! A bit of a novelty nowadays. Mind you, I'm still wondering what Chuck Berry was doing there. Still he was fun!
I can't work out whether Mahalia Jackson or Chico Hamilton stole the show, but you could literally hear a pin drop during their performances, the audience was so entranced. I would put them equal first.
Watch it, listen to it, and make up your own mind. If you like wonderful music played with skill, love and talent, this is the DVD for you
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This is quite simply one of the finest live performances I have ever seen, if not the finest!
If you have never seen or heard SRV please buy this as it is quite
exceptional. It's so good I don't really know where to start. Stevie was a true guitar genius.
He never stops yet never repeats himself. It's sublime - the power, the speed, the control, the sensitivity and the voice. He had it all and music is the poorer for his passing.
Texas Flood may be the greatest single performance ever captured on film.
I should think the few hundred people in attendance that night have never stopped telling people they were there!!
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Not many people would leave it until their 82nd year before releasing their first ever live DVD, but as she purrs in the opening number, whereas everyone else has disappeared, the unique Eartha Kitt is most definitely, 'still here'.
A fabulous cabaret set including Kitt classics such as 'Old Fashioned Girl' and 'I Want To Be Evil' alongside covers that include an inspired take on 'I Will Survive'. Has anyone else had more reason to sing this one?
Best of all is the bonus song 'Alone' nestled between the main set and the interview; it's 'an autobiographical reflection in song' and if songs really can move you, I'm still waiting to come back from this one.
Michael Buble first DVD made me want to go see him live! His voice is amazing his personality fab! He is very humble and thanked Michael Parkinson for showing him to the world on TV I for one am so pleased he did! I love sinatra style songs and anything Michael does he seems to make his own. Buy it and see.
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This is a classic Rat Pack concert spoilt by a manufacturers bold Red and Black logo in the bottom right corner. It is a distraction on an old B&W footage.
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One or two good tracks musically; the Ellington track stands out for me and some surprises too but generally a patchy selection.
Lena Horne is shown singing a gutsy blues in her salad days but there are far too many female vocalists who are neither easy on the eye or ear.
Dancers on display include Cyd Charisse who struts her stuff to an unnamed Latin band in a manner that would disgrace Strictly Come Dancing.
There's also a lot of lindyhopping bobbysoxers.
No remastering, so sound and picture quality could have been much better. Even the few good tracks were let down by being poorly edited, prematurely faded out etc.
But there ARE enough gems to be discovered, that Teagarden footage must be rare enough to justify checking it out.
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The problems in her life are evident in this performance. Amy Winehouse is an outstanding talent as can be witnessed in the documentary segment on the DVD. In the main concert she is either high or pi$$ed or both and although musically it is fine, she is clearly struggling with her voice and relating to the audience. The quality of the songs really carry the performance.
The person in the documentary is a different performer completely. That Any Winehouse is vibrant, energetic and in great voice. Sadly she appears to have since deteriorated more and unless she takes a different road is heading for tragedy.
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