Roberta Flack - In Concert
This DVD captures the legendary singer-songwriter Roberta Flack live in  Black Entertainment Television's Washington, D.C., studio. In the '60s and '70s,  Flack's silky, Nina Simone-derived vocals and compositions beautifully blended  jazz, gospel, and soul, crossed all musical boundaries, and paved the way for  today's adult contemporary and quiet storm radio formats. Flack's sophisticated  and earthy classics like "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Killing Me  Softly with His Song," and "The Closer I Get to You" are brilliantly reborn  with a sleek contemporary jazz feel. Her renditions of blues standards  "Stormy Monday" and "Sweet Georgia Brown" showcase Flack's velvet  embrace of the African American musical tradition, which she has refined for  years.--Eugene Holley Jr.