Jamiroquai – Live At Montreux 2003 (Eagle Blu-ray)
Picture:
B Sound: B Extras: C- Concert: B+
A few
years ago, Eagle issued one of the best of many Montreux concerts we have seen to date with Jamiroquai’s 2003 show on DVD.
You can read more about that release at this link:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6213/Jamiroquai+%E2%80%93+Live+At+Mo
Now, the
act still best known for their fine record and classic Music Video Virtual Insanity arrives on Blu-ray with
the same Jamiroquai – Live At Montreux
2003 concert. To repeat, the tracks
include:
1)
Use The Force
2)
Canned Heat
3)
Cosmic Girl
4)
Little L
5)
Blow Your Mind
6)
High Times
7)
Traveling Without Moving
8)
Butterfly
9)
Shoot The Moon
10) Soul Education
11) Just Another Story
12) Mr. Moon
13) Alright
14) Love Foolsophy
15) Deeper Underground
The
concert holds up well and I expected lead singer Jay Kay to look and sound as
great as he did on the now out-of-print Blu-ray for Live At Abbey Road, which we covered here:
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7888/Live+From+Abbey+Road
Fortunately,
the Blu-ray delivers a fine 1080i digital High Definition upgrade from the
decent, anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 DVD with limited detail issues and one
of the best 1080i shoots and transfers we have seen yet. It is colorful, consistent, has little motion
blur and even good depth for an interlaced recording.
Unfortunately,
the distortion/compression issue on the DVD, even in DTS, is not as well
resolved on the Blu-ray as I had hoped for.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM 16/48 2.0 Stereo are not good, but the
DTS-HD Master Audio (MA) lossless 5.1 mix still shows some issues with the
mix. It is also transferred at a lower
volume than I would have liked, yet is still the best of the soundmixes on the
two versions issued.
Extras
include a bonus performance of Space
Cowboy as good as the concert, plus a paper pullout with some text on the
band.
- Nicholas Sheffo
