Concert For The Americas

Frank was a little past his prime when this live concert was performed, but he was in terrific form in this early 80s show. His bluesy rendition of "Come Rain or Shine" takes Don Costa's great chart and makes it grittier, sans the massive string section. "Best Is Yet to Come" is as solid a rendition of the Cy Coleman song as I've ever seen or heard. "I Won't Dance" swings, and Franks's drummer Irv Cottler places the perfect, powerful accents to kick Sinatra higher. Speaking of Cottler, you won't see Buddy Rich behind Sinatra, but that's fine. Cottler knew every nook and cranny of Sinatra's rhythmic phrasing and knew how to fire up his boss. It's Buddy's band, augmented by french horns and virtuoso Tony Mottola, along with a couple of other Sinatra regulars. There is a break in which Buddy comes out and does his classic "West Side Story", with a typically explosive drum solo. I have a friend who attended this concert in the Dominican Republic who told me Buddy collapsed after his performance from the stifling heat & humidity. You'll note he didn't even wear a hairpiece...somehow, Sinatra looked comfortable. No, it's not HD, the audio is okay but not up to the best technologies of today...but this is one of the best Sinatra live concerts you'll find. 'S Wonderful.

I see Mrs. and Entre many times and had the pleasure of meeting him several occasions although there is fantastic talent out there then and now. no one could ever take his place a gift from God his voice and his generosity, that no one knows was extraordinary God bless the man and his music.rest in peace one of the greatest concert you've ever done. I hope forever reads this maybe has contacts to get to New York City Mayor for Miss Sinatra's contributions to the world to officially have a song for New York City New York New York song my him that was suggested to be done and play 24 hours a day does music with improvement center is in time square years ago. This should be the greatest tribute to the man who help me as a people for his hundredth birthday on December 12, 2015 hopefully some will pay attention Holyoke is one of the people I spoke to God bless you Frank

This was a fantastic performance, with some background information added as well. Glad to see a coming together of the Americas! Would have enjoyed more of his classic music being added, but several of his newer songs were presented. Blew me away with his rendition of "Send in the Clowns". It was nice that he introduced his wife, as well as several of his fellow performers.

Sinatra floats back and forth across the stage in full command of his powers. At 67 Sinatra is in full voice and his delivery is immaculate. Riding the wave of the Buddy Rich orchestra classics are delivered effortlessly and the audience is affectionately responsive, it's a great time for all. This is a very special concert full of talent that we may never see the likes of again. As a special treat Buddy Rich absolutely explodes like a stick of dynamite when he takes the spotlight. Off the charts great.

Excellent presentation and Sinatra is a first class showmanship! His voice and command of the musical numbers is very very good, however, I was not thrilled with every song and compared to his voice in the 1973 Ol' Blue Eyes is Back, you can detect some degradation in his voice quality. A standout performance by Buddy Rich on drums. I've never seen anything as impressive as his performance on a classic West Side Story number. Frank is great on New York, New York, My Kind of Town, Send in the Clowns and I Get a Kick Out of You. I'm glad I purchased this DVD. Plays and sounds fine and the video quality exceeded my expectations.

It is Frank, after all. Quality is good. I found it very enjoyable but not exceptional. Overall I am glad that I purchased it.

Just wonderful

Frank has so many great song and everybody has there favorites but it is probably safe to say the songs on this dvd were not his most popular. Seems like he was in his prime when he sang at this concert. Maybe did not want to do a best of thing. Wished more popular songs were on the dvd.

Sinatra, c’est Sinatra! De plus accompagné du big band de Buddy Rich, que demander de mieux?

L'acquisto era un regalo ed ha avuto un ottimo successo. Segnalo anche la perfetta gestione amazon: a fronte di una prima spedizione, persa da poste italiane, a seguito del contatto con customer care mi è stata re-inviata con corriere espresso a loro spese! Niente da dire!

Excellent dvd, j'ai passe un moment inoubliable , sinatra restera pour beaucoup (dont je suis), un artiste sans equivalent !

me gusto mucho

Great viewing.