Norah Jones - Live in New Orleans

Rating:
Summary: not as good as the real thing
Review: I attended the NewOrleans concert and it was so much fun to be there in person. This dvd is good but severley edited - and it definitly dosn't match up to the magic of seeing Norah and her band perform live!

Rating:
Summary: A disservice to her voice!
Review: Norah Jones has the most profound voice in music (I will NOT call it Jazz after hearing this DVD) since Joe Cocker (just saw his Woodstock performance-awesome) and Josh Grohban.

In this DVD, and I'm echoing many of the other reviews, there were so many problems with the quality of the sound. Yeah, her voice was STILL powerful and smooth, but the listener could not here the band and much of the richness of the songs were completely lost. The drums yes, sounded like congos, simply awful! This is one reason I don't call it Jazz as this drummer should have been using brushes. The use of drumsticks reek of 'pop' music. Additionally, the songs were over almost as soon as they started with little to no improvisation. That is not Jazz, either.

The Video showed her to upclose (the glitter on her face or whatever was not pretty and her nervousness was obvious. There were so many things wrong that the DVD did a disservice to her voice.

I got this DVD to compare to Diana Kralls two DVD's (Live in Paris and Live at the Montreal Jazz festival). These were TOP QUALITY productions and her backing musicians, well, are probably the BEST (John Clayton-Bass; Anthony Wilson; electric and Jeff Hamilton; drums) in the world.

Norah Jones' voice, however, is one of a kind and she should settle for nothing less than Diana Krall's backing musicians. I would love to see Norah singing along with Diana's group (plus Diana). This would serve Norah and us better.

Rating:
Summary: Norah Jones - Live in New Orleans
Review: Poor sound mix. instruments same volume as vocals. Vocals get lost and are hard to stand out thru the music. Its like listening to the music in a tunnel with very poor accoustics. Hopefully I can find a better sounding Norah Jones DVD since this one sounds so bad. But based on the ratings this one has I would question if we have the same DVD. We do, yet the average rating is four out of five for a DVD with this poor of accoustics.