 |  | Two different Chester Thompsons.... |  |
Just a note to correct the editorial review - Chester Thompson, the drummer and keyboard player, are two entirely different people, NOT one in the same. For the three people out there who could possibly care...But noted out of respect to the two musicians.
September 17, 2008 | | C. Santana / W. Shorter live in Montreux 1988 | |
20 years after having the chance to be in the concert room, I have finally been able to find the DVD & CD recordings of this memorable moment of shared music between two legendary musicians and their fantastic band. I can only recommend this material, the DVD provides the visual dimension of this great live performance.
January 27, 2008In response to the reviewer who said that only the 2.0 DD stream would play, I'd like to let people know that both the 2.0 and 5.1 dts streams played just fine through my system. My DVD player was set to send the bitstreams to my receiver, and I used my receiver to decode them. Moreover, my receiver reported that the 2.0 dts stream was in 96 kHz and the 5.1 dts stream was in 24 bits / 96 kHz. In other words this appears to be a rare DVD-video disc with higher resolution audio, if my receiver can be believed. (However, I wasn't aware that the DVD-Video format could include dts at 24/96, so people smarter than me may want to comment. I can say that this disc did sound sweeter and smoother in dts than DD, but my listening was subjective, not professional). I do wish that Amazon reviewers would list what the audio stream resolutions are for all DVDs, as it would affect buying decisions for people who care about higher resolution digital sonics.
November 3, 2007| | | Not only Santana & Shorter but Patrice Rushen as well | |
One of my favorite Carlos Santana's albums is "Blues for Salvador," released just prior to this concerts with Shorter. There's lots of interplay with Santana's guitar and Shorter's saxophone, though they do take over with their own compositions, which is normal behavior. Rushen is in great form here, doing the keyboards duties and even gets to perform a couple of her numbers as well. There are percussion solos that included Amando Perraza who frequently performs and records with Santana. If you liked Weather Report or Shorter's work with Herbie Hancock or the jazzier albums of Santana, then this is for you.
October 17, 2007I thoroughly enjoyed these DVD's, as Santana is actually playing more spiritual music with great Jazz musicians. I especially liked Ravi Coltrane's interpretation of Pharaoh Sanders' beautiful classic "Light from the Edge of the World." In fact, Coltrane outshines Shorter in freshness of his solos on tenor sax (Shorter's tenor sax acoustic pick up leaves a lot to be desired - a technical problem which is common to all the other Santana + Shorter DVD's). Of course, Ravi Coltrane does not reach the heights and energy that Pharaoh Sanders exudes, but again what living tenor saxist does? Finally, Salvador Santana performs wonderfully on the piano and I was sorry to see him substituted by Herbie Hanckock after that beautiful introduction he played to Miles' classic "In A Silent Way" (never been a fan of Herbie's playing).
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