DVD : The Jazz Channel Presents Bobby Womack (BET on Jazz)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381964127
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 14, 2000
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 58424
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: November 14, 2000
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Editorial Review:
Description:
BET On Jazz: The Jazz Channel presents legendary R&B guitarist and singer/songwriter Bobby Womack in a live performance at Black Entertainment Television Studio in Washington, DC. This is classic Womack, gritty, soulful and raw, singing the R&B songs that have made him famous, plus a bonus interview. Songs: Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out, Harry Hippie, Daylight, I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much, That's the Way I Feel About Cha, Love Has Finally Come at Last, Woman's Got to Have It, You're Welcome to Stop on By, Change is Gonna Come, Lookin For a Love to Call My Own, If You Think You're Lonely Now, No Matter How High I Get, Across 110th Street, I'm Through Trying to Prove My Love to You, It's All Over Now, I Can't Understand It, Amen/This Little Light of Mine.
Amazon.com:
Though he's widely considered one of pop music's most influential artists (working with the likes of Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Wilson Pickett, and Sly and the Family Stone, and being covered by the Rolling Stones, James Taylor, and J. Geils Band), Bobby Womack was relatively unknown to younger audiences until the late '90s. When pop-culture champion Quentin Tarantino used Womack's blaxploitation hit "Across 110th Street" for Jackie Brown, a whole new audience opened up for Womack. For fans both old and new, this 90-minute live performance showcases the work of a man with some of the silkiest, most powerful vocal cords in the business. And even though Womack is getting up there in years, he still looks like a bad ass, sporting a black leather baseball cap and dark shades that would make Shaft proud. This 18-song performance often comes across like an essential R&B-soul history lesson. Womack croons beautifully on such classic ballads as "That's the Way I Feel About 'Cha" and "Woman's Gotta Have It" and shows off his grittiness on "Lookin' for a Love" and "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out." If there's a flaw with the performance, it's the arrangements; Womack's backup band is a bit too slick. "Across 110th Street" is watered-down funk, almost redone as adult contemporary gloss. Still, it's an essential for any Womack fan's collection. --Dave McCoy
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Everybody else, take a lesson. Bobby Womack is in session. He came to "B.E.T and showed how to captivate an audience for an hour. He talked, he sang and he played. New Jacks, take a lesson.
Rating: -
I think Bobby Womack is one sexy brother. I always liked his song "A Woman Got To Have It", but of course I was born in 1961. Watching this concert made me realize what I had been missing. I have watched this live concert atleast 10 times already. He is my mid-night fire on Friday nights after all long working week.
Rating:  -
There are two issues here. (1)The editorial review claims on the songlist "Harry Hippie" as one of the offerings on this DVD.
This is not so, and bearing in mind that I purchased same for that song more than anything else I feel cheated as I was looking forward to seeing bobby perform same.Someone owes me an apology and a refund.(2)Having said that I think the performance was good in general but Mr. Womack spoke too much thus detracting from an otherwise captivating performance.
Rating:  -
I review concerts and erotic films....sometimes I review normal films too...
But I happen to know a quality show when I see one on DVD...and this was not one! I love the music of Mr. Womack and have many of his original records...and CD's.
That being said....I expected so much more from this live show recorded off of BET televison. This was not one of his best perfomances I am sure. I was disappointed by his lack of professionalism performing some of his biggest hit songs.
Most people go to see a live show to hear the songs (in basic form) the original way an artist once recorded it. Performers like the Eagles, Boz Scaggs, Tom Jones, Luther Vandross to name a few...deliver on that important performing aspect sounding like the "original version". Mr. Womack did a poor job of making me believe he wanted to be there singing that night....he seemed to rather sit down and chat with the audience about his long career...instead of concentrating on singing really well. His voice cut out on him many times and sounded powerless....he butchured much of his best material.
The sound quality of this DVD was just average as well....I was highly disappointed by it for many reasons....you may be too!
Rating: -
This is a great way to enjoy Bobby. I am a fan and have been for many years. If you are not a fan, you will become one after viewing this DVD
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