Recorded live at the Charter One Pavilion in their home town on July 10, 2010, Chicago performs an array of classics and is joined for several of them by the Doobie Brothers.

Image’s 1080i, AVC-encoded Blu-ray of Chicago in Chicago looks terrific, a tribute to music video and documentary director Leon Melas’ intelligent planning and the operators’ skill with HD image capture. The show’s simple and unfussy lighting design, which kept the illumination strong even as the techs shifted the hues, contributed to a solid and stable picture with no aliasing or noise. Details of costumes, instruments, and yes, the elder band members’ well-earned wrinkles are readily visible. Colors are somewhat changeable, depending upon the camera angle and the degree of light; for example, in some shots, musicians’ dark blue jeans appear as light green. In a feature film, these sorts of issues might have been color-corrected during post-production, but for a concert film, I suppose it makes sense to leave them as live “imperfections”.
Unlike Soundstage concerts, the audience at the Concert One Pavilion was not fully illuminated for Chicago in Chicago, with the exception of a few interludes during which the cameras swept the crowd. However, with a stage so large and well-lit, the difference was insignificant, and Melas’s shooting style was more front-oriented, with fewer shots from behind the band out into the crowd. Rarely does the image have dark areas, but those that occur appear to be appropriately black.
Interlacing artifacts were not an issue, while the image was in motion. (Screencaps are a different issue.) Image has once again opted for a BD-25, despite the inclusion of a 94-minute concert and over 40 minutes of supplemental material, most of it in hi-def. However, thanks to the efficiencies of the AVC codec, no compression errors appeared.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Chicago-in-Chicago-Blu-ray/40128/

01. Opening/Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon
02. Make Me Smile
03. So Much to Say, So Much to Give
04. Anxiety’s Moment
05. West Virginia Fantasies
06. Colour My World
07. To Be Free
08. Now More Than Ever
09. Dialogue Pt. 1 & 2
10. If You Leave Me Now (with Stephanie Buck, charity auction winner)
11. Call On Me
12. Old Days
13. Hard Habit to Break
14. You’re the Inspiration
15. Beginnings
16. I’m a Man
17. Just You ‘n’ Me
18. Saturday in the Park
19. Hard to Say I’m Sorry
20. Get Away
21. Feelin’ Stronger Everyday
22. With The Doobie Brothers
23. Free
23. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
24. 25 or 6 to 4

 DISC INFO:

Disc Title:     CHICAGO_IN_CHICAGO_-HDGeek
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Protection:     AACS
BD-Java:        No
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