Amazon.co.uk Review
Norah Jones Live in New Orleans provides further reasons why many are claiming that she is the new Nina Simone. In the space of a few months her critically acclaimed debut album Come Away with Me sold millions of copies worldwide, spurred on by her phenomenal success at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards and word-of-mouth recommendations.
Recorded in August 2002 at the House of Blues in New Orleans, the concert provides an intimate, if somewhat brief showcase of a performer on the verge of the big time. Accompanied by "Her Very Handsome Band" Norah swiftly performs the favourites from the album ("Don't Know Why" and "Lonestar") as well as other material such as "Something is Calling You" and "Bessie Smith".
While many may associate Jones's music with either leisurely moments slumbering in coffee lounges, or as the soundtrack to suburban dinner parties, as the catcalls and screams between songs suggest, her music (and sex appeal) is stimulating the middle classes in previously unimaginable ways. As she moves into stadium concert performer league, perhaps this DVD will be the only opportunity for many to witness the "queen of easy-listening" in a truly intimate and live setting.
On The DVD: Norah Jones Live in New Orleans includes a rich Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround soundtrack, which successfully reproduces Jones's stunning vocals. While the picture quality is glossy and colourful, the visual material is limited due to the handful of cameras recording the show. Also included is the promo for the track "Come Away with Me". --John Galilee
Customer Reviews:
terrific singing,great atmosphere and brilliant musicians.......2006-08-01
The sound quality of this dvd was excellent - the same high quality of the Come Away With Me cd from which most of the songs are taken.How many singers/bands can put on a live performance as good as the album!What I liked about the visual aspect of the dvd was that this was a warts and all performance:Norah was clearly nervous at the start and relaxed as the show moved on.
The audience participated to the making of a great atmosphere and
it was good to see the band members playing their instruments so intensely and with such feeling.
good concert DVD - lesser known songs make it a buy !!.......2004-03-11
This is a good DVD basically of Norah sitting behind her piano / Wurlitzer playing a selection of songs mainly from the album Come Away With Me. (The band consists of guitar, bass and drums)
I disagree with some of the other reviewers that the video production is boring. I personally prefer to watch how the musicians are playing their instruments rather than watch a blinding laser show and a load of strange camera angles and colours. This concert is simply 4 musicians on a small stage and the video production reflects the honesty of the performance.
Some of the performances of songs off Come Away With Me are pretty average in my opinion, but the real gems on this DVD are the songs that some fans who discovered Norah through her last album might not have, in particular her version of Bessie Smith, the bluesy Comes Love and the final song, Tennessee Waltz.
A good buy.
contents:
1. Cold, Cold Heart
2. Nightingale
3. One Flight Down
4. Seven Years
5. Feelin the same way
6. Comes Love
7. Something is Calling you
8. Come Away with me
9. What am I to you
10. Painter Song
11. Lonestar
12. I've got to see you again
13. Bessie Smith
14. Don't know why
Bonus:
* Tenessee Waltz (live encore)
* music video of Come Away With Me (pretty poor!)
A mesmerising, subtle performance.........2004-02-05
I have been a huge fan of Norah Jones ever since she launched her career with her glorious first album. This DVD is no less brilliant, if not more so.. Sure, the visual production isn't fantastic but that's not the point! You get an intimate view of Norah at her quietly-confident, yet oddly self-conscious best.. She interacts sincerely with her band and the audience, but for the most part she in completely engrossed in her performance.
In terms of her music I find this performance even better than the album, with some other great songs thrown in for good measure. Her rendition of Joni Mitchell's 'Nothing can be done' is fantastic! In my opinion, dare I say it, better than the original..
If you like Norah's music and want to see her in a live performance, you will not be disappointed by this DVD.
Norah Jones (Almost) Live in New Orleans.......2003-12-19
Beautiful music as you would expect from Norah, but don't bother switching your TV/Monitor on! The video production is probably the most boring I've ever seen! It is basic and unimaginative in the extreme and this, combined with Norah's self concious, static prescence on stage is guaranteed to put you to sleep! Close your eyes and enjoy the excellent sound or save some money and buy the audio CD instead!
Delightful, Relaxing Witty Performance.......2003-04-21
A beautifully crafted performance of the irreplacable Norah Jones, a very basic set on stage, but the performance and wittiness of Ms Jones herself more than makes up for that. Her vocals sharp and clear, she engages with the crowd as naturally as you would your closest friends...the tracks include all the important ones from "come away with me". There is also a bonus encore track of the concert, as well as the full video for the single "come away with me". It's a performance you want to hear and watch over and over and you can't help relax with that inevitable smile engaging in the music...the only reason I don't give this five stars is because of some of the cinematography, it isn't the best, however you do soon forget the little flaws. You won't be disappointed...buy it!! Enjoy it!!!
Amazon.co.uk Review
Norah Jones's growth as a performing artist since she burst on the scene in 2002 is apparent on Norah Jones and the Handsome Band: Live in 2004, her second concert DVD following Live in New Orleans, released in 2003. The gifted singer-pianist-songwriter is still something of a reluctant headliner; personable if not exactly effusive (and seemingly bemused by the adulation), she's self-effacing and winningly unpretentious onstage. That goes for the music as well, as Jones and her empathetic band (now including guitarist Robbie McIntosh, formerly of the Pretenders and Paul McCartney's band) put on a tasteful, understated show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Songs from her second CD, Feels Like Home, are favored, along with a version of the Grammy-winning "Don't Know Why" that's received with near-reverence by the audience. Jones's choice of cover material, including tunes by John Prine ("That's the Way the World Goes 'Round"), Tom Waits ("The Long Way Home"), and Gram Parsons ("She," which is among the several bonus tracks; other extras include two videos and three "mini-documentaries"), is also admirable, but it's when her various guests show up that the show approaches genuine transcendence. Among them are Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, who harmonize beautifully with Jones on Townes Van Zandt's "Loretta", and the indefatigable Dolly Parton, whose duet with Jones on bassist Lee Alexander's bluegrass-flavored "Creepin' In" is the undisputed highlight of the show. Radiant, ebullient, and in great voice, Parton is a star, and Norah defers to her accordingly. The only problem comes when Jones and company have to pick up where Parton left off, and in truth, it takes them a while to recover. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews:
Don't put it off.......2006-10-16
If you like Norah Jones at all - this dvd is pretty much an essential purchase. She WILL almost certainly be eaten up by the "entertainment machine" - this is your chance to see the real thing before the inevitable corruption sets in. A beautiful vocal performance of course, just wonderful guitar playing from all three guitarists here, the playing on "Humble Me" by Robbie Mcintosh and Kevin Breit is something to treasure - Adam Levy's very distinctive playing is often forgotten because his style is so understated - very much like Norah's. Buy it soon - make yourself happy!
Customer Reviews:
Fantastic.......2005-08-24
For the memory of this great music revolution, everyone must have one:) This was really amazing...
Customer Reviews:
Incredible Jerry Lee!!.......2008-01-05
He may be gettin' older (72) and unable to shake his body while bumpin'
on the piano but his fingers still do with which he started out on SUN
records back in 1956: play Rock & Roll, Blues, Country, Honky Tonk,
Boogie Woogie etc. He's still able to do all that together with the
greatest interpreters of each kind like Solomon Burke, Tom Jones,
Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and many others. On
all duets his voice is as strong as it was besides the fantastic
piano solos being the "Lewis Boogie" one of the highlights of this
unbelievable, almost 2 hours long, gathering. Jerry Lee is the last
man standing of the complete Sun recording artists of the 50's. Although
his wild "lifestyle" and multiple hospitalizations seemed to lead
him to the grave soon, he outlived Elvis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison,
Carl Perkins and so many others and is still providing us with his
marvellous live shows! His best live show ever and therefore his best
DVD so far. Long Live Jerry Lee! Long Live The Killer!!!!
Customer Reviews:
Return To Sin City.......2005-04-02
This is a wonderful tribute to Gram Parsons, a fantastic artist who helped change the face of music. It is professionally shot and edited and the commentary by Polly Parsons is both amusing and informative. Norah Jones' version of 'She' is an absolute must; it is without doubt the best cover I have ever heard of this track. Also a treat to see the great Al Perkins in the Sin City All Stars Band. All in all a lovely tribute which I will play repeatedly.
Customer Reviews:
The real Seabiscuit Story.......2007-01-15
The American Experience series on Public Television in the USA is continuously outstanding, and this episode about the little horse that could is no exception. First of all the poignancy of the backgrounds of all the main characters involved is beautifully described, with wonderful archive photos and film. Laura Hildenbrand who wrote the "biography" of "The Biscuit" is an excellent interviewee and a great articulator of her subject's amazing true life story. The Oscar winning film was lovely, but it cannot compare to the real deal. I recommend you buy this if you love stories of people or animals who succeed despite all the odds.
Amazon.co.uk Review
This 1930 drama was an early field day for Alfred Hitchcock and his evolving ideas about the blurring of opposites: reality and illusion, guilt and innocence, observing and doing, men and women. A rare whodunit in the director's canon, the story of Murder finds a stage actress (Norah Baring) convicted of murdering a female friend. Herbert Marshall stars as a veteran theatre actor and, coincidentally, member of the jury who has grave doubts about the verdict and decides to investigate the crime on his own. His efforts lead him through a world with which he is sufficiently familiar--that of backstage intrigues--and toward what some critics have charged is an unfortunate link between villainy and a gay stereotype. But that limited critique completely misses the playful overlapping of faulty perceptions invited by this movie, in which Hitchcock deliberately confuses us at times about whether the action we're seeing is real or occurring on a stage. Even when the distinction is obvious, thematic echoes bounce wildly between the two, such as an early scene in which policemen observing a play don't realise the solution to the real murder is weirdly foretold in what they're watching. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
Early Hitchcock "Whodunnit".......2006-05-07
"Murder" certainly is one of the better of Hitchcock's 1930's films; it has an intricate plot , a steady build up of suspense, good acting and a dramatic finale. After a stage actress is killed ,seemingly by by one of her colleagues who is subsequently convicted of her murder, a veteran actor who served as the chief juror at her trial ,decides to launch his own investigation into the incident after having post-trial reservations about the case. There are some good scenes in the film, most notably the jury scene and the finale in the circus. "Murder" would have been worthy of a four star rating had it not been for the fuzzy sound and grainy picture, which made the film difficult to follow at times. I suppose this is to be expected of a 75 year old movie though. Maybe one day someone will digitally remaster it.
Ealy Hitchcock delight.......2000-11-13
Man of the stage, Herbert Mershall, struggling to prove Norah Baring's innocence in Alfred Hitchcock's beautifully staged, hugely influential drama mystery. You can see where Sidney Lumet picked up some of his bits for 12' Angry Men. Brilliantly acted, wonderfully scribed and typically-well directed. Leading the audience to its clammy, claustrophobic finale, while Hitchcock weaves together a tale of guilt, suspicion, intrigue and forbidden love. Though its slightly dull paced at times. It still could be considered today, a daring peice of wotk for its time.May even be Hitchcock's best film of the thirties, along with The Lady Vanishes.
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