Seal — North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, 2009

Live concert film of Seal at the North Sea Jazz Festival, captured on Sunday, July 12, 2009 on the Nile stage of Ahoy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and released by the festival’s archive. Riding the release of his album Soul that same year, the British singer-songwriter delivers a set of soul covers and personal classics running more than eighty minutes. The program moves through “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” “Killer,” “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World,” “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long,” before his own hits “Love’s Divine,” “Kiss from a Rose” and “Crazy.” Backed by a horn section and rich backing vocals — Sarah Field, Georgina Bromilow, Carol Jarvis, Claire McInerney and guitarist Mark Summerlin — Seal gives a warm, generous live performance. A must-see full concert for lovers of soul and pop-soul, filmed in high definition in Europe’s largest indoor festival venue.