James Taylor Live at the Beacon Theatre 1998 - DVD9

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James Taylor Live at the Beacon Theatre 1998 - DVD9

 

 

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Sensitive singer-songwriter, soft-rock poster boy, boomer troubadour: James Taylor has outlived the stereotypes offered by fans and critics alike by simply staying his musical course and continuing to refine his familiar, deceptively mellifluous style. This 1998 concert displays Taylor's craftsmanship and easy rapport with both his band and his audience to satisfying effect, offering a repertoire that draws from his entire career while providing a generous selection of songs from his Grammy-winning 1997 set, Hourglass. Fans will love it, of course, but even jaded listeners can find fresh feeling and formidable expertise here.

 

By now, Taylor's skill at low-key love songs is a given, making him an archetypal "sensitive New Age guy" on the strength of his canny mix of emotional vulnerability, romantic imagery, and understated delivery. Less obviously, Taylor has gradually transformed the shadows of disillusionment audible in his earliest songs into a nuanced acknowledgment of his own age. "Line 'Em Up," from Hourglass, typifies his skill at limning disarmingly lucid, frankly philosophical vignettes, here woven around a recollection of Richard Nixon's last hurrah, while "Jump Up Behind Me" affords a testament to self-determination ultimately as serious in theme as it is buoyant in its musical framework. Throughout, Taylor's stage band proves a thoroughbred, its accompaniment rock solid and delicately detailed, and perfectly matched to a ***** backing chorus.

 

Among the first video concerts produced with DVD in mind, Live at the Beacon Theatre has been in heavy rotation in home demonstration suites ever since its release, an achievement understandable after hearing the crystalline 5.1 mix engineered by Frank Filipetti, who shared a Grammy as coproducer on Hourglass and snagged a second award for his engineering of that album. --Sam Sutherland

 

 

Size: 6.39 GB

Video: 4:3 (NTSC)

Audio: PCM 2.0

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DVD-Video: MPEG Version 2

Bit rate: 4 204 Kbps

Nominal bit rate: 9 800 Kbps

Width: 720 pixels

Height: 480 pixels

Display aspect ratio: 4/3

Frame rate: 29.970 fps

Standard: NTSC

 

Audio #1

Format: AC-3(Audio Coding 3)

Bit rate: 448 Kbps

Channel(s): 6 channels

Channel positions: Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE

 

Audio #2

Format: PCM (Big)

Bit rate: 1 536 Kbps

Channel(s): 2 channels

Channel positions: Front: L R

 

Subtitles: English, French

 

Tracklist:

 

01 You Can Close Your Eyes

02 Another Day

03 Daddy's All Gone

04 Everyday

05 Mighty Storm

06 Only A Dream In Rio

07 Don't Let Me Lonely Tonight

08 Your Smiling Face

09 Jump Up Behind Me

10 Shower The People

11 How Sweet It Is

12 Fire And Rain

13 Me And My Guitar

14 (I've Got To) Stop Thinking About That

15 Handy Man

16 You've Got A Friend

17 Mexico

18 Little More Time With You

19 Line 'Em Up

20 Up On The Roof

21 Ananas

22 Steamroller Blues

23 Belfast To Boston

24 Wandering

25 Not Fade Away

 

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Edited November 11, 2010 by esperminator