must-have music DVD, which?

[gychang]

I like quality audio recordings so I have been avoiding music DVDs.

I heard some music DVDs rival well recorded CDs. I am particularly fond of smooth jazz, particularly guitar music.

What are your must-have music DVDs?

gychang

[ruerose]

Buena Vista Social Club

Real Live Roadrunning (marc knopler/emmylou harris sp?) Isn't bad either.

Sting has a musical presentation which I don't recall the name of where he plays a lot of oud with another gent. It should be decent quality. (but the HD feed I watched had the audio all messed up on sync. I also dont think it was live.)

Not jazz, but good folky music I enjoy.

[Pano]

Sting plays the Oud?

[Scottmoose]

Loreena McKennitt: Nights from the Alhambra.

[Hotsauce]

Allison Moorer - Show



Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Revisited



You can preview it at www.cowboyjunkies.com

John C.

[Irakli]

Pink Floyd - Pulse is awesome.
Also I really like Roxy Music "Live at the Apollo", Roger Waters "In The Flesh".

[OzMikeH]

Greg, you might like Diana Krall, Live in Paris.

Light Piano & Female Vocal Jazz, small orchestral accompaniment.
Rather mellow. Reasonable recording of the piano but the vocals are excellent.

Most DVD players have terrible audio DACs, make sure you use digital connection between AV receiver and DVD player.
If you dont have a reasoinable AV receiver then consifer an external DAC, it's usually cheaper than a DVD player with good audio.

I find DVDs have much better imaging than CDs....

[davidlzimmer]

David Gilmour "Remember That Night"

Better than ever!

[Sherman]

Originally posted by panomaniac
Sting plays the Oud?

Don't know if it is an oud. It is a large instrument with *lots* of strings and a very wide fretboard!

The album (CD, DVD, whatever) is "Songs from the Labyrinth".

[myglaren]

As I have just posted in another thread, one of my favourite music DVDs is of Mylène Farmer's 2006 concert at the Bèrcy Sports Stadium in Paris.
The concert was Avant Que L'ombre and this is the track of the same name, closing song for the concert. This video does the original no justice whatsoever.

The images are projected on a curtain of falling water. Impressed the hell out of me.

My DVD and TV are of the cheap and cheerful variety but I took my disc into the hifi shop where my preamp was receiving surgery and played it on a £52,000 system. It killed the system and they had to reboot it to get it to work and blamed it on the fact that she was "singing in foreign" but it was absolutely stunning on that system.

I bought the nerds "Box Set Limited Edition" version of this at stupendous expense to the management but there are cheaper versions available

Apart from that I would say any DVD by Mylène but then I am rather biased. This one knocks my socks off:
Pas Les Temps Du Vivre from her Mylenium Tour. (H R Geiger did the set for her)There is a story behind this that I won't go into now. This was the one that sold her to me while looking for Dead Can Dance videos.

Her partner, Laurant Boutonnat, is a film maker and they have turned out some spectacular videos between them, and a feature film, so they have some experience with this.

Three of my top choices are £^%* Them All
XXL
Comme J'ai Mal.

I will also echo the recommendation of the Loreena McKennit "Nights At The Alhambra", an exquisite performance.

Penelope's Song. Don't make the mistake of thinking that this is in any way representative of the quality of the DVD.