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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 19815
Released: March 20, 2001 |
| Our Price: $3.48 |
| Used Price: $3.47 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Color DVD Live NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
The name Ray Charles stands for superstar worldwide. He is an icon in the music world, has a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame, a bronze bust enshrined in the Playboy Hall of Fame, and has received fifteen Grammys, the Kennedy Center Honor, and three National Medals of Arts. In his fifty years in the music world, Ray Charles has earned the title "The Legendary Genius of Soul." In this benefit concert for the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind from the James L. Knight center in Miami, Florida, Ray Charles performs all his classics, and delights the audience with a saxophone solo and a duet with special guest and Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Diane Schuur. Songs: I Got a Woman, A Song For You, It Hurts To Be in Love, Georgia on My Mind, The Good Life, Your Cheatin' Heart, They Can't Take That Away From Me, It Had To Be You (with Diane Schuur), You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (with Diane Schuur), Till There Was You, Say No More, Blues For Big Scotia, If You Go Away, All I Ever Need Is You, Love in Three Quarter Time, America The Beautiful. 82 minutes.
Description of Ray Charles - In Concert:
At the age of 71, Ray Charles hasn't lost a step musically. If anything, his performance has been honed even further to what can only be described as the distillation of musical soul. Taped at a benefit concert in Miami, Florida, this set documents Charles with a massive orchestra that he manipulates like a trio, with a solid sense of dynamics and fun. He mixes everything from country to city, from pop to blues, from Hank Williams to George Gershwin, and renders it all with that purringly gritty voice and economical keyboard work. For good measure, he works out on saxophone for one number as well. He also sings a pair of duets with Diane Schuur, "It Had to Be You" and "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To." --Marshall Fine
Ray Charles - In Concert Reviews:
Ray Charles Concert 
2009-05-29 - This is an absolutely spectacular concert by the legend, Ray Charles. It has all of his great hits, an amazing orchestra, and the cinematography is wonderful. Even if you're just a casual fan of Ray Charles you will love this concert.
Sleepwalking 
2009-01-26 - Sadly, the great Ray Charles delivers an uninspired performance on this DVD. He was either sick, making little effort to put feeling into the songs, or he was sleepwalking through the performance. What a disappointment!
Ray and Diane - A wonderful combination of talent 
2009-01-21 - I love melodic tunes and Ray Charles was one of the best to give us melodies that we could whistle to.. His guest on stage, Ms. Diane Schuur who is also blind, make a dynamic duo of epic proportions. Such feeling! An absolute treat and a must-have for any musical concert collection.
Ray Charles-In Concert
2007-01-30 - I have always admired Ray Charles, but his performance here was far less than satisfactory. For example, when he sang, the words were slurred so bad that unless you knew the song, you had no idea what he was saying. The entire DVD was like this. I couldn't help but wonder if he was stoned during his performance.I sent it back and purchased a different DVD of a different artist.
Don't bother 
2005-05-12 - Some people have complained that the sound is turned down too much on this DVD. After watching it, I wonder if they did it on purpose.
Ray Charles is in great spirits at this concert but certainly not in great voice.
The orchestra is great and Ray could certainly still play the piano just fine but his singing is pretty bad.
Diane Shur, who guest stars on two songs is very good but if you're going to get this DVD for her, you might as well get her own DVD.
Anyway, get some other Ray Charles DVD instead.
