ADDITION: Criterion - Region 'A' - Blu-ray (August 14'): T Criterion's new transfer is cited as "a new 4K digital restoration" and it looks excellent. The 'Music DVD' edition certainly looks dramatically 'green' beside it. What distinguishes the 1080P are the textures, superior contrast, a high level of detail and it shows more information in the 1.85:1 frame. You can find frequent examples of depth, no noise, and a brighter, more vibrant image. It gave a very pleasing video  presentation.

Always authentic, Criterion opt for a DTS-HD Master in original 3.0 channel surround at 2335 kbps. As well as un-credited compositions by Ralph Burns, we have all the great performances and stand-alone music including George Benson doing On Broadway, Harry Nilsson's A Perfect Day, the marvelous numbers using Everything Old Is New Again and Who's Sorry Now?, the memorable reprise of Take Off With Us, I heard 'The Merm' singing There's No Business Like Show Business, Ben Vereen and Scheider's Bye Bye Love, Vivaldi to Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile. Just grand - it sounds beautifully crisp and lively with some subtle depth. There are optional English subtitles on the region 'A'-locked Blu-ray disc.

Okay, Criterion have loaded this up with much of what was on the two previous DVDs and more. So we get the 2007 audio commentary featuring editor Alan Heim also found on Fox's 'Music DVD Edition' as well as the selected-scene audio commentary by actor Roy Scheider as found on Fox's 2003, original, SD edition. Repeated from the past DVDs is the Portrait of a Choreographer, a 2007 documentary on Fosse's choreography style featuring interviews with various collaborators and admirers, including Liza Minnelli, dancer Sandahl Bergman, Choreographer and filmmaker Rob Marshall, editor Alan Heim, and others. Also duplicated is 8-minute The Soundtrack: Perverting the Standards, a 2007 documentary exploring the soundtrack for All That Jazz featuring interviews with composer Glen Ballard, Jerry Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Diane Warren, as well as Bob Fosse collaborators Liza and Heim. From the 2007 DVD is the 3.5 minute interview with George Benson from 2007, about his song “On Broadway,” which opens the film. New are interviews with Heim - for 15-minutes, conducted by Criterion in 2014, with Heim discussing the process by which he and Fosse came up with the film's Academy Award winning, editing style - and 20-minutes with Fosse biographer Sam Wasson who discusses the motivations, self-doubts and compulsions that drove Bob Fosse to create. There is a new 34-minute conversation between actors Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi. One of the indelible moments in All That jazz is Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi's charming pas de deux to the tune of "Everything old is New Again". In this conversation, recorded and produced by Criterion in June 2014, Reinking and Foldi discuss that scene, the film and the driving force behind it all, director Bob Fosse. There is an episode of the talk show Tomorrow from 1980, featuring Fosse and choreographer Agnes de Mille running over 1/2 an hour as well as interviews with Fosse from 1981 on The South Bank Show dfor almost 30-minutes and 1986 spending 26-minutes with Gene Shalit. There is 8-minutes of "On-set footage" of Fosse Directing and 4-minutes of a Scheider interview - the latter also found in Fox's DVD package. lastly are a trailer, plus the case has a liner notes booklet featuring an essay by critic Hilton Als and 2 DVDs with both the feature and all the supplemental content of the Blu-ray.

This is a massive package of the imminently re-watchable feature and piles of valuable extras. I was less a fan before I went through this incredible Criterion Blu-ray package.

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