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Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter - Live at Montreux (1988) |  | Actors: Santana, Wayne Shorter
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 54887
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Live, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: IMED3823D
UPC: 014381382327
EAN: 0014381382327
ASIN: B000KGH08O
Theatrical Release Date: February 27, 2007
Release Date: February 27, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 02/06/2007
Amazon.com
For those who wonder what Weather Report, arguably the premier jazz-fusion band of the '70s and '80s, might have sounded like with a guitar player, Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter - Live at Montreux is a good reference point. The verdict: if Shorter's involved, it's going to be good. The saxophonist-composer and his Weather Report co-founder, keyboardist Joe Zawinul, had disbanded the group by mutual consent about two years before Shorter joined forces with guitarist Santana on a 1988 tour that included this gig at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival. And while Santana was the bigger name, the music presented in this two-hour concert is actually closer to the Weather Report sound--i.e., a rich blend of electric jazz and world music influences performed by a versatile group of virtuoso players. In fact, three of them had been Weather Report members at various times: bassist Alphonso Johnson, the amazing drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, and Chester Thompson, who plays keyboards here but had manned the drum seat while with Shorter, Zawinul, and company. Along with keyboardist Patrice Rushen and percussionists Armando Peraza (congas) and Jose Chepito Areas (timbales), both Santana stalwarts, they assay material familiar to both Shorter fans ("Elegant People" from Weather Report's Black Market, "Sanctuary" from Bitches Brew, one of the many Miles Davis albums on which Shorter played) and Santana lovers ("Incident at Neshabur," "Blues for Salvador," "Europa"). Shorter is brilliant throughout; his solos on both tenor and soprano sax are fiery and expressive, and his communication with the others is a wondrous thing to behold. Santana, on the other hand, often sounds out of his element, if not out of his league; although he has an instantly recognizable sound and plays with great passion, he's primarily a rock guitarist with a limited blues-based style that restricts his ability to interact with skilled improvisers like Shorter and Rushen and take part in the kind of dynamic ebb and flow that characterizes great jazz performances. In the end, this is a good, sometimes inspiring show. But one wonders what might have happened if Shorter had joined forces with, say, John McLaughlin instead. --Sam Graham
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 Rare gem September 7, 2009
R. A. Bruer (Midland, ON Canada)
I learned of this recording years ago... it was so nice to finally hear it. Certainly a rare gem... a collection of great artists, who lay aside much (e.g., their usual styles and repertoires) to sound a passionate and straight-forward call for peace. Inspiring!
Some of the greatest musicisns alive today. June 19, 2009
J. Kaufman (SF East Bay)
How can you go wrong with a lineup like this? You can feel the energy and they seem to be having so much fun playing together. Some of the instrumentals become a bit tedious and dragged out but I can't think of a better line - up to drag things out with.
Two different Chester Thompsons.... September 17, 2008
Brad Byers (Las Vegas, Nv. United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
C. Santana / W. Shorter live in Montreux 1988 January 27, 2008
Daeppen Gilles (Switzerland)
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.
fine audio streams November 3, 2007
Cerise
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In 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.
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