Join Pink Martini in concert as they musically travel the globe, from the cafes of Paris to Carnaval in Brazil to the streets of Tokyo. Discover the internationally acclaimed ensemble that the New Yorker has described as "breathtaking" as they take you on a kaleidoscopic cultural journey blended with the grand romance of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Filmed in the ensemble's hometown of Portland at the historic Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, this DVD presents a thrilling full-length concert film (seen nationwide on PBS television) in pristine stereo sound, featuring many of Pink Martini's most beloved songs alongside previously unrecorded rarities.

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The Beatles performed for fifty-two BBC Radio programmes, beginning with an appearance on the series Teenager's Turn—Here We Go, recorded on 7 March 1962, and ending with the special The Beatles Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride, recorded on 26 May 1965; in total, 275 performances of 88 different songs were broadcast. Early bootlegs of some of the performances were based on low-quality home recordings of the broadcasts from the radio. It was not the BBC's practice to archive either the session tapes or the shows' master tapes, but many good quality distribution copies were found in various BBC departments during research for BBC radio specials produced in the 1980s.

Increasingly comprehensive collections of the BBC performances were bootlegged in the 1980s and early 1990s. The most notable of these was The Complete BBC Sessions, a nine-CD box set released in 1993 by Great Dane in Italy, where copyright protection for the broadcasts had expired.

What an interesting album and what a great cross-sectional study of George Benson's evolution from young R&B based jazz-guitarist to easy jazz-pop phenomenom. Recording quality is generally good, except for 1-2 live songs. The listener can obviously take their pick which they prefer, but there's no denying that while George is best known for his Breezin and other albums from the 80's, he had a real eclectic body of work behind him that established him as a jazz leader. If you're one of those types who cry, "Hey he sold out", I'd counter that he brought the best of jazz to the pop world. The songs Breezin' and On Broadway are loads of fun, simply because they are well written and polished performances.