Chris Botti: Live (With Orchestra and Special Guests) [Blu-ray]

Additional Chris Botti: Live (With Orchestra and Special Guests) [Blu-ray] Information

Blu-ray Disc Track Listing:
1. Someone To Watch Over Me
2. When I Fall In Love
3. A Thousand Kisses Deep
4. What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life featuring Sting
5. Good Morning Heartache featuring Jill Scott
6. My One and Only Love featuring Paula Cole & Burt Bacharach
7. The Look Of Love featuring Paula Cole & Burt Bacharach
8. Cinema Paradiso
9. Pennies From Heaven featuring Renee Olstead
10. Are You Lonesome Tonight? Featuring Paul Buchanan
11. Lover Man featuring Gladys Knight
12. My Funny Valentine featuring Sting
13. Why Not
14. One For My Baby
15. Bows (Credits)

Special Features:
"Behind the Scenes: Chris Botti Live"- Never Before Seen Exclusive Footage of the concert event takes the viewer behind the scenes
"The Musicians"- A profile of Chris Botti's extra ordinary band: Bill Childs (Piano), Billy Kilson (Drums), James Genus (Bass) and Mark Whitfield (Guitar)
"One For My Baby"- This song was not part of the original PBS Broadcast
"Interview With Chris"- An extensive interview with Chris, giving his personal account of the events that led up to these fantastic concerts.
"Message in a Bottle" - Sting fronts Chris band for a stunning version of the Police Classic not on the PBS Broadcast

Video/Audio:
Mastered in High Definition
PCM 5.1 Surround Sound (96 khz/24 bit)
Dolby Digital Stereo (640kbps)
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound (640kbps)

What Customers Say About Chris Botti: Live (With Orchestra and Special Guests) [Blu-ray]:

I am giving this as a Christmas Gift to a family member and therefore cannot accurately review this product. However, I did receive this item in a timely manner, thanks.

There seems to be also a problem with the material: what industry currently calls `Jazz' is a surprise I take as not agreeable. Where are the real Jazz greats. How could a rock singer inject so creativeness in approaching Michel Legrand's `What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life'. Botti as a lead soloist. You can't sing `Goodmorning Heartache' as you sing `Happy Birthday To You'.Gladys Knight was discreet and brilliant and her final scat duet with the musicians was practically the only Jazz iceberg end in the show. This makes us suppose a long list of invited artists, featuring Sting and Gladys Knight.Ok to Sting and his extraordinarily cool approach to standards. It is too serious to play irresponsibly with `My Funny Valentine', a contextualized song from a Broadway with memorable lyrics by Lorenz Hart.Jill Scott is a powered-voiced singer who is proper to cover some Aretha Franklin hits but not to sing Billie Holiday with that screaming voice.

Beautiful woman, beautiful costumes, beautiful make-up, beautiful voice but no sense using her voice and no respect to the lyrics. Theater is extraordinarily beautiful.The audience is clearly a plethora of invited people among friends and fans, so enthusiastic was their reaction even in tender situations. Botti is not a Jazz musician and no Jazz may be expected for beyond brilliant Billy Childs'solos here and there.A long making-of extras in the program helps Blu-Ray fans and specially Botti's fans to hopefully say this is great. Also brilliant is Ms. Passed to me the idea that the audience'a aplause was orchestrated at some 'presset' times.The trouble with me refers to the material. It's also important to notice that many of our Jazz greats were still well and alive there to offer new products, new shows at that time.It seems that Blu-Ray is somewhat more complicated to have old material to be converted into. Maybe their programs could not guarantee a fat return to the producers.In this scenario, I was presented to Chris Botti and Mr Botti is introduced by our Amazon Editor as a Jazz chart-topping trumpeter.

Please no Jazz is offered even with the great Gil Goldstein before a great orchestra and a rhythm section trio leaded by the great Billy Childs and by guitarrist Mark Whitfield.The program is a beautiful collection of standards, just a few 6 songs having Mr. Sorry that `My Funny Valentine' was reduced to a gag between Botti and Sting. Renee Olstead in her near teenage and funny rendition of `Pennies from Heaven'.Unfortunately, Mr. I'm stepping on the Blu-Ray field for the first time by reviewing this `Chris Botti Live', a typical program for those who don't have anything better to be served with considering a new and astonishing technology that seems to have become popular in recent years.It is quite similar to the DVD launching decades ago but with a big difference: old programs, mainly Jazz programs, were relatively fast and successfully remastered into DVD format so that we could take advantage of watching the Jazz greats in high quality sound and image standards. It's hard to swallow comfortably.The show final results are spectacular as far as we get drunk by the notoriously splendid image and sound quality gathered with the extraordinary American industry's expertise to put things together in this kind of production. Also sorry for the classical mistake in the lyrics, when Sting sings `don't change your for me' instead of the correct `don't change a hair for me'.

this guy has the great talent, the discipline, the musical friends, the dignity, the beauty and grace. nothing not to like

Botti is perhaps the best trumpet instrumentalist I have ever heard (seen). Chris Botti: Live (With Orchestra and Special Guests) [Blu-ray]This is outstanding Blu-ray presentation. The concert was truly great, and the sound and video was near perfection.

I love it. Excellent CD. Received as promised, packaged great and I'm thrilled with the puchase.