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]:

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. 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. 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. 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. Jazz. 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.

Both are simply musicians whose virtuosity and performances transcend efforts to label them. One gets the sense that had Emperor Joseph heard Chris Botti's performance on this DVD he would have complained it had too few. "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. 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. Pop.

What does it matter what you call it when you can bring out and capture performances like this on film.

Botti in Boston is the reference version and really shows what Blu-ray can do. The audio is 96/24, but sounds no better than the DVD version.

It is clearly 480i upsampled to 1080i, and mastered poorly at that. This is a great performance by Botti, but the Blu-ray version is NOT hi-def video.

The Blu-ray version is soft and has many artifacts (halos, lacks detail, ringing, etc.). 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 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.

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.

great with HD picture and true HD sound,where is it, whoops. 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. 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.

This is a beautiful DVD, full of superb performances from both the star and his featured artists. From the intimate interpretation of lyrics, to the dynamic backing band, and appreciative looks from the orchestra members, there is something for everyone. The sound is five-star, and pictures to match. Botti makes it look easy, but his incredible technique is an example to all brass players.

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.