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Roberta Flack - In Concert

Roberta Flack - In Concert

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Features:
  • Color
  • DTS Surround Sound
  • Dolby


Description:

This DVD captures the legendary singer-songwriter Roberta Flack live in Black Entertainment Television's Washington, D.C., studio. In the '60s and '70s, Flack's silky, Nina Simone-derived vocals and compositions beautifully blended jazz, gospel, and soul, crossed all musical boundaries, and paved the way for today's adult contemporary and quiet storm radio formats. Flack's sophisticated and earthy classics like "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Killing Me Softly with His Song," and "The Closer I Get to You" are brilliantly reborn with a sleek contemporary jazz feel. Her renditions of blues standards "Stormy Monday" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" showcase Flack's velvet embrace of the African American musical tradition, which she has refined for years. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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