Jane Olivor: Safe Return DVD VIDEO music performance concert cabaret singer song Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Image Entertainment Released: 2003 Media: DVD With her spectacular voice and deeply emotional presence, Jane Olivor is a musical sensation. A deeply loved vocalist of the finest order, she can turn a ballad into a transforming experience and always leaves her audience wanting more. Now she returns to thrill new audiences with this brand new performance, featuring beloved standards and new melodies sure to touch your heart and lift your soul. Songs include: You, Warm, Let's Make New Memories, Annie's Song, The Last Time I Felt Like This, Hardest Part of Love, Daydreams, Carousel of Love, Crowded Island, Brooklyn Roads, Run for the Roses, I Got the Sun in the Morning, Some Enchanted Evening, Big Parade, Pretty Girl, You Don't Know How Beautiful You Are, Sippin' Wine, How Are Things in Glocca Morra / Ailein Duinn, Stay the Night, The Right Garden, One More Ride on the Merry Go Round, L'important c'est la rose, Love of Another Kind, Safe Return, I Believe, Where There Is Love, Let's Make New Memories (Reprise), Since You've Asked.Jane Olivor's songs of mature passion find an elegant home on Safe Return, featuring the chanteuse in concert with 27 songs about the seasons and varieties of love. Opening salvos "You," "Warm," and "Let's Make Some Memories" define Olivor's terrain as ardent ballads about old love renewed or deepened--not so much romantic as clearheaded about the rewards of commitment and the horrors of isolation. With lustrous, orchestral backing, Olivor turns John Denver's sweet waltz, "Annie's Song," into a sobering oath, mines the secrets of a woman's desire in "Daydreams," and haunts the pretty "Stay the Night" with overtones of loneliness. Olivor often emphasizes dramatic phrasing over melody, making some vocals chunky and tuneless. But she is full-throated and graceful on "Last Time I Felt Like This" (originally a duet with Johnny Mathis) and witty on the country-flavored "Sippin' Wine," and earns her diva stripes on the autobiographical "Brooklyn Roads." --Tom KeoghFor DVD Player (North American NTSC)
