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Deluxe DVD/CD edition includes bonus CD that contains audio highlights from the performance. One Night Only: Barbra Streisand & Quartet Live AT The Village Vanguard is the first and only live club performance ever released by Streisand. This collaboration with the Grammy-winning Canadian Jazz artist Diana Krall (piano) and her quartet (guitar, bass, drums) brought a refined and sensual poignancy to the album's spare and subtle accompaniments. This rare show, staged in September 2009 to commemorate the release of Barbra's historic #1 CD Love Is The Answer, brings Barbra back to her roots and couples the greatest voice of this century, with the richest songs of American popular music and the Broadway stage.
One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard September 26,2009 (DVD with CD) Reviews
One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard September 26,2009 (DVD with CD) Reviews
| 68 of 70 people found the following review helpful  Out of the ampi-theaters and into the Village Vanguard. Who'da thunk it? Well, Barbra did., By This review is from: One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard September 26,2009 (DVD with CD) (DVD) Whether it was nostalgia or just a great idea to promote her new record with Diana Krall, Barbra's one night at the Village Vanguard, a 123-seat, 74-year-old jazz club in Greenwich Village, captures an intimate example of her ability to connect with an audience. I live in NYC, but wasn't lucky enough to attend. However, I got to see Ms. Streisand in 2006 at Madison Square Garden and was front and center as a kid at Arizona's Sun Devil Stadium in March 1976 when she put on a one-day concert event to film for her "A Star is Born," film. In both cases, the audience of thousands just shut up and listened when she sang. In the case of Sun Devil Stadium that included a lot of drugged out teens and adults there to rock out to Peter Frampton and other acts.Here she scales back her famous voice and personality to fit the venue and gives back to her fans a sample of what it was like in the early '60s to have heard her sing in one of the many nightclubs around the US where she got... Read more 29 of 29 people found the following review helpful Taken by surprise..., By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard September 26,2009 (DVD with CD) (DVD) I love Barbra -- have for years. "Love is the Answer" is one of my favorite of her recent albums. But there were moments in this new Streisand DVD that took even this ardent Streisand fan by surprise. Her voice has always been a combination of technical amazement and an actors' instinct of time and place. All that is in abundance here -- an actor in an intimate space, surrounded by more peers than fans and with no BS allowed. You can fully see Barbra "sensing" it -- that vibe that says "Be real." That's what makes this DVD one of her greatest performances. It has a roughness in both voice and intimacy that excites. Her career, always a balance of commercial success and artistry, is in full view here. I urge you to share this DVD with your friends, your children and especially anyone who wants to be in "The Show Business" because here is captured an exciting record of countless years of fame, awards and acclaim distilled in a small New York club, with sensational songs, marvelous... Read more 41 of 46 people found the following review helpful A Rare Privilege, This review is from: One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard September 26,2009 (DVD with CD) (DVD) Of course we're all writing in advance of the release of this DVD or DVD/CD combo; but before her single or double CD was released last year, I found, here on AOL, that I was able to view five of the selections from her new album in this venue now being released as a DVD. It was magic seeing and hearing her; she looked lovely and seemed quite at home in the intimate setting she chose to present her new work. At that time I anxiously awaited the release of the double CD that is now in my collection. Today, as I write this, Barbra is celebrating her 68th birthday. While I'm sure we fans wish her many more, what a body of work she has to look back on from over the last forty-five or more years! My favorite Barbra has always been her presentation of the standards; the songs she covers on this new DVD don't disappoint. Very low-key, seldom straining a voice that doesn't quite do what it did when she was nineteen, she can still just send shivers down one's spine..."Some Other Time" is... Read more |
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