Roy Orbison: Black & White Night [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Roy Orbison
Brand: Image Entertainment
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Best of, Dolby, Live, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 64 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment

DVD Reviews of Roy Orbison: Black & White Night [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: A MUST HAVE for all Orbison fans
Summary: 5 Stars

EXCELLENT concert in every way; an all star cast of musicians including a young Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Orbison is tremendous! A B & W movie is fitting for Orbison even though I like color

DVD Review: Still one of the best concerts ever, but
Summary: 4 Stars

This concert is the first laser disc I bought, even though I didn't have a LD player at the time. It was buried in a pile of LDs for sale @ $25.00.
Everything about it was great. If had been an LP or tape and not an LD, I would have worn it out.

Then came the DVD with all its poor edits and the DTS sound (instruments) being forced to areas (speakers) of the screening room where they did not belong. The DVD was horrible compared to the older LD.

Now the Blu-ray with its DTS Master Audio. The editing is far better than the original and DVD versions. But, again even though the quality of audio is absolutely spectacular, the sound mixers chose to place musical instruments where they do not belong. i.e. The key board on camera left is heard predominately on the right side & rear speakers. Unless the concert is in the round, the side and rear audio should be ambient music plus audience reaction. Too many concert mixes force the sound where it doesn't belong.

Setting the poor placement of various musical instruments aside, this remains one of the best recorded concerts ever.

It is the quality of Roy's voice heard better than any previous recordings, and that's what counts.

DVD Review: bad dvd
Summary: 1 Stars

This dvd does not work. I asked for help in returning it and got no answer.

DVD Review: Roy Orbison
Summary: 5 Stars

One of the best recorded live concerts ever! All songs are "greatest hits" and the back up players are awesome!

DVD Review: Rock & Roll at it's best!
Summary: 5 Stars

You don't have to be over 50 to truly appreciate Roy Orbison's Black and White Night. The music is timeless and the addition of more current musicians brings the music into the 90's and beyond. For those of us who are over 50 the songs are familiar and takes you back to the 50's and 60's. What a great time, what a great night. Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, K.D. Lang, and Bonnie Raitt among others truly bring the songs alive. The recording is so spectular that you feel like you are there. To top it off, you get the CD to go anywhere. If you liked Roy Orbison, you'll love this DVD.

Description of Roy Orbison: Black & White Night [Blu-ray]

Presented on Blu-Ray for the first time, a special one-time event documenting one of rock and roll's greatest and most unique performances. Recorded live at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy Orbison is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and roll superstars. Highlighting this all-star line-up are Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits. Orbison and fellow performers spend a scintillating hour performing many of his greatest hits.

Filmed in black and white against the streamlined art deco stage of the since-demolished Coconut Grove in downtown Los Angeles, the concert is buoyed by a remarkable cast of A-list Orbison fans who signed on as his accompanists. Under the direction of producer T-Bone Burnett, the stage band thus includes Jackson Browne, Burnett, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, and Jennifer Warnes, along with the rhythm section from Elvis Presley's fabled late '60s and early '70s touring band. That astonishing lineup is all the more noteworthy for the restraint with which they collaborate--it's evident that those superstars came to honor Orbison, not upstage him, resulting in a gratifying cohesion to the performances.

Orbison himself sounds as powerful as ever, his soaring falsetto cresting as dramatically as it did on the studio versions of the hits that inevitably dominate. Those songs meanwhile confirm that his blue chip admiration society came as much for the caliber of his writing as for his ravishing voice: if he remains best known for the jaunty come-on of "Pretty Woman," Orbison was first and foremost a rock balladeer, capable of bringing lumps to our throats with such classics as "Crying" and "Only the Lonely," or conjuring romantic trances through such gentle charmers as "Dream Baby." On this night, he handled all of them with fervor and finesse. --Sam Sutherland

Few early rockers were more gifted or less honored in their prime than the late Roy Orbison, whose vaulting tenor and vulnerable love songs conjured heartbreak and desire with operatic intensity. This 1987 concert special, originally broadcast on Showtime, came two decades after Orbison had retreated from pop's front lines, yet neither Orbison nor his music coasts on mere nostalgia: in every respect, A Black and White Night survives as a triumphant performance and a superb video production, as well as a first-rate retrospective of Orbison's hits.

Filmed in black and white against the streamlined art deco stage of the since-demolished Coconut Grove in downtown Los Angeles, the concert is buoyed by a remarkable cast of A-list Orbison fans who signed on as his accompanists. Under the direction of producer T-Bone Burnett, the stage band thus includes Jackson Browne, Burnett, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, and Jennifer Warnes, along with the rhythm section from Elvis Presley's fabled late '60s and early '70s touring band. That astonishing lineup is all the more noteworthy for the restraint with which they collaborate--it's evident that those superstars came to honor Orbison, not upstage him, resulting in a gratifying cohesion to the performances.

Orbison himself sounds as powerful as ever, his soaring falsetto cresting as dramatically as it did on the studio versions of the hits that inevitably dominate. Those songs meanwhile confirm that his blue chip admiration society came as much for the caliber of his writing as for his ravishing voice: if he remains best known for the jaunty come-on of "Pretty Woman," Orbison was first and foremost a rock balladeer, capable of bringing lumps to our throats with such classics as "Crying" and "Only the Lonely," or conjuring romantic trances through such gentle charmers as "Dream Baby." On this night, he handled all of them with fervor and finesse. --Sam Sutherland

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