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Chris Botti: Live (With Orchestra and Special Guests) [Blu-ray]
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Item Description...
Product Description
Studio: Sony Music Release Date: 05/29/2007
Outline
Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti is mostly exquisite on this concert DVD, which gives old fans and new arrivals a chance to hear him apply his rich, expressive playing to a number of old standards, as well as one or two of his own compositions. Botti, along with a remarkable band including Billy Childs on piano and Billy Kilson on drums, plays six numbers as instrumentals but is joined on eight other performances by a few guests. Sans vocals, Botti warms up a delighted audience with a nice, if slightly exercised, take on "Someone to Watch Over Me," but proves magnificent on "When I Fall In Love" and especially Leonard Cohen's "A Thousand Kisses Deep." Then out glides old pal Sting (who invited Botti to join his own touring band some years ago), who has a nice go at "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?", followed by jazz-blues belter Jill Scott's terrific "Good Morning Heartache." Less effective are two appearances by Paula Cole, of which the second, "The Look of Love," doesn't work particularly well for anyone, including Botti and composer-pianist Burt Bacharach (also onstage). Renee Olstead sizzles up the joint with her kittenish "Pennies from Heaven," and Sting returns for a comic if touching "My Funny Valentine." --Tom Keogh
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Item Specifications...
Record Label Sony BMG
Format Color / Enhanced / Live / Widescreen
Dimensions: Length: 6.7" Width: 5.3" Height: 0.4"
Weight: 0.186875 lbs.
Binding BLU-Ray
Publisher Sony BMG
UPC 886970814799
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Availability 16 units.
Availability accurate as of May 26, 2012 09:00.
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 | Superb! Apr 25, 2010 |
| One of the best music DVDs I have ever purchased, especially for most of us Chris Botti & CO. fans who were not fortunate enough to attend the live concert in Boston. Highlights are duets with violinist Micarelli and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. But don't forget to view the bonus track of Fragile. | | | | Great DVD Apr 21, 2010 |
| If you haven't seen this you are missing out on the greatest music on DVD. It's one of my favorites of all time. | | | | Just the Right Number of Notes Mar 7, 2010 |
There's a scene in Amadeus where Emperor Joseph II criticizes Mozart's work for having "too many notes." Mozart defends that he believes his work has just the right number of notes, not too many or too few. One gets the sense that had Emperor Joseph heard Chris Botti's performance on this DVD he would have complained it had too few. Even Botti comments on a bonus interview that he is not an artist that floods a piece with "a lot of content." "I need someone to finish my phrases for me," he observes. And that is what makes Chris Botti stand apart from the smooth jazz crowd.
Make no mistake, Chris Botti is a virtuoso - a young virtuoso, with so much potential it's frightening to think of where he'll be in ten years, or in five. But he is a musician who understands, and exercises, the power of restraint, and that understanding shows up in spades on this video. Surrounded by a world-class core band--Billy Childs (piano) and Billy Kilson (drums) especially stand out--and a 50-piece orchestra of L.A.'s best session players, he plays just the right number of notes, leaving ample room for his band mates and guests to finish his musical phrases.
And what a parade of guest singers: Sting, Paula Cole, Jill Scott, Paul Buchanan, Renee Olstead, Gladys Knight all shine in the generous space created by the headliner. As someone in the "behind the scenes" bonus documentary observes, Jill Scott doesn't merely channel Billie Holiday in her show-stopping performance of Good Morning Heartache, she's the second coming. No wonder great singers flock to perform with Botti - by turning the spotlight on them he elevates the entire performance to new heights, and the glory reflects back on him.
Botti is the willing servant of the song, and freely acknowledges that the real stars on this recording are his three arrangers, who he introduces to the audience and gives due credit. "They're the cake, I'm just the frosting," he explains, comparing himself to Sinatra, who was wise enough not to get in the way of Quincy Jones' incomparable arrangements, but instead showed up after "the cake" had been backed to perfection to top it.
It's unfair to categorize Chris Botti as a "smooth jazz" musician in the same way that it is blasphemy to pigeon-hole Michael Franks in that class. Both are simply musicians whose virtuosity and performances transcend efforts to label them. Pop? Jazz? What does it matter what you call it when you can bring out and capture performances like this on film?
| | |  | Buyer beware - Blu-ray version is NOT hi-def Feb 27, 2010 |
This is a great performance by Botti, but the Blu-ray version is NOT hi-def video. It is clearly 480i upsampled to 1080i, and mastered poorly at that.
I own both the DVD/CD combo pack and Blu-ray versions. Using an Oppo BDP-83SE and Pioneer 101FD, the DVD version upsamples much cleaner to 1080p. The Blu-ray version is soft and has many artifacts (halos, lacks detail, ringing, etc...). The audio is 96/24, but sounds no better than the DVD version. The packaging says "High Definition video and audio" but no mention of "1080".
Branko Vekic was mistaken in his review, this is not the Botti reference Blu-ray. Botti in Boston is the reference version and really shows what Blu-ray can do. It is 1080i/24fps with Dolby TrueHD....a must have to show off your system.
If you'd like to purchase this performance, your best bet is to get the DVD/CD combo version on sale. | | |  | COULD BE BETTER Feb 17, 2010 |
| Whilst this dvd is quite enjoyable, full of great artists and vocal treats, why is it limited by the quality of soundtracks. Music and Dvd companies are milking our hard earned dollars and giving us second rate sound tracks, are you listening SONY If Blu-ray is so... great with HD picture and true HD sound,where is it, whoops! no HD sound, no DTS sound, we get second rate sound, i am now refusing to buy anything that does not have either true HD sound or a DTS soundtrack in Blu ray. Wake up and stop ripping us off. | | | Write your own review about Chris Botti: Live (With Orchestra and Special Guests) [Blu-ray]
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