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Title: Mediocre Music From Two Giants, Sound & Picture Quality is Poor
Review: Carmen and Sonny are two of my very favorite musicians. I've heard Carmen live a lot of times, and Sonny several times. I've never heard anything less than very good from either of them, but these performances are well below their normal levels. Carmen is with her working trio, Norman Simmons, Victor Sproles, and Walter Perkins. Sonny with his working trio, Jim Hall, Bob Cranshaw, and Ben Riley.What's even worse is the technical quality. I was working as a broadcast engineer when this material was produced, and the everyday technical quality of video and audio was far better than what appears here. It's so bad it makes me suspect that the DVD was mastered from a VHS cassette! Not only that, this DVD doesn't play on my DVD player, I can only play it on my computer, but the screen says " Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Import, NTSC" It's not Color, it's Black and White! The only thing in color is the logo of the producer.
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