11.07.1987
Italy, Perugia, Perugia Jazz Festival
Perugia Jazz Festival 1987
NTSC
TV Broadcast
1 DVD
no menu, track cheptared

01. Up From the Skies
02. Strange Fruit
03. Shadows in the Rain
04. Little Wing
05. There Comes A Time 
06. Introducing the band / Consider Me Gone
07. Murder By Numbers / Synchronicity
08. Roxanne
09. Tea In the Sahara
10. Message in a Bottle (Sting solo)

Total Running Time: [1:20:45]

video: pro-shot from Rai Due broadcast, B quality due to some VHS generation
audio: broadcast soundboard, A quality, slight generational muffling but well mixed and generally clear.
likely lineage: RAI TV broadcast > VHS > unknown gen VHS > unknown standalone dvd-r

Fantastic one off performance by Sting with Gil Evans' great jazz orchestra. Branford Marsalis sits in as well. A cd version of this show was released semi-legally out of Italy some years ago, so a few folks have heard these great jazzed up versions of Sting songs as well as some of the jazz standards, and even some Hendrix tunes. But it seems that video of this concert was hard to find. So here it is. Sting's vocal work is incredible and he looks like a million bucks. 

*there are image skips because of a missing video_file - if you want to grab this, catch the PAL version, wich are works fine and it has the Master source!!!!

Video Attribute :
  Video compression mode : MPEG-2
  TV system : 525/60 (NTSC)
  Aspect Ratio : 4:3
  Display Mode : reserved
  Source picture resolution : 704x480 (525/60)
  Frame Rate : 29.97
  Source picture letterboxed : Not letterboxed

Audio Attribute : 
  Audio Coding mode : Dolby Digital
  Sampling Rate : 48kHz
  Audio application mode : Not specified
  Number of Audio channels : 2
  Bitrate : 256 Kbps
  Number of Audio streams : 1