From jazz to pop and even disco Roberta Flack has been delighting fans with her delicate voice sophisticated sound and intricate musical arrangements for more than three decades. This sensational concert features the legendary vocalist and pianist performing light jazz romantic ballads and career favourites before a rapturous live audience in Washington D.C. Tracklist: 1.Why Don't You Move In With Me 2.The Closer I Get 3.Sweet Georgia Brown 4.Feel Like Makin' Love 5.Killing Me Softly With His Song 6.Stormy Monday 7.The Thrill Is Gone 8.Reverend Lee 9.The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Roberta Flack's television concert, recorded specifically for the Jazz Channel in 2000, reveals a mature artist at the peak of her vocal powers. Flack is the thinking person's soul singer: a versatile performer who can swing from jazz to blues and MOR to pop with ease, always choosing material with impeccable taste; and shes a fine pianist too (she is a music graduate of Howard University).Born in 1937, Flack is probably best known for her global 1973 hit, "Killing Me Softly with His Song", revived by the Fugees in the late 1990s. Here, Flack reclaims the song, even giving it an unexpected twist of salsa, and dedicating it to Nelson Mandela following what was clearly an emotional meeting with him on a tour of South Africa. Her rich, fluid, understated voice serves other material closely associated with her beautifully, interspersed with autobiographical stories and references (although she doesn't dwell on her commercially successful partnerships with Donny Hathaway, who committed suicide in 1979, and Peabo Bryson). "Why Don't You Move in With Me", "Feel Like Makin' Love" and of course, Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" are all ornamented with some subtle jazz tones and inflections to classy effect. And there's a tremendous modernised version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" which gets the audience swinging. In the end, though, it's "Reverend Lee" which brings the house down. Fabulous. --Piers Ford
Sambar Salsa is a tale full of humour romance emotion and drama telling the story of a Spanish girl an Indian boy and disapproving parents some who need little convincing and others who need a whole lot more!
A brutal coast-to-coast annual race in America in the year 2000. Spectacular action in this win-at-all-costs movie.
Recorded on December 14th 2003....
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, Paul Newman's second film as director stars his wife Joanne Woodward (Three Faces of Eve, Sybil) as an abusive, over-bearing mother raising her two daughters (Nell Potts and Roberta Wallach) in an atmosphere of bitterness and hatred. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a powerful, searingly unsentimental and ultimately transformative drama, with a trio of towering performances from the three female leads at its core. Product Features 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historian Adrian Martin The John Player Lecture with Paul Newman (1972): archival audio recording of an interview conducted by Joan Bakewell at London's National Film Theatre The Guardian Interview with Joanne Woodward (1984, 65 mins): archival audio recording of an interview conducted by Tony Bilbow at the National Film Theatre Cannes Film Festival Press Conference (1973, 2 mins): archival footage in which Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward discuss their approach to making the film Isolated music and effects track Original TV spot Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Please wait. Loading...
This site uses cookies.
More details in our privacy policy