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Revealed follows Lang Lang to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, where he teams up with his hero, Jazz legend Hancock. Backstage another Jazz legend Quincy Jones has popped by for the concert, (Read more...)

When I started the Festival back in 1967 with two friends, I had a budget of US$ 7000 for a three-day event. I called it the International Montreux Jazz Festival because we had bands from all over Europe and one American band: Charles Lloyd with Keith Jarrett.

I never dreamt that nearly a quarter of a century later I would have the tremendous honor of having Quincy Jones co-produce the Festival for three years, in 1991, 1992 and 1993.

In 1991 and 1992, Sony recorded the entire Festival in (Read more...)

Founded by Paddy Maloney in 1962, The Chieftains were one of the first bands to popularize Irish traditional music around the world and today their status as one of the finest Irish bands of all time remains unchallenged. They have received awards from around the world including 6 Grammys and an Emmy and worked alongside some of the greatest names in pop, classical and folk music. This superb concert from Montreux features the classic line-up in a blend of song, music and dance that draws from (Read more...)

25th Annual TEC Awards and Celebration

Founded in 1985, the Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards is the foremost program recognizing the achievements of audio professionals. Presented annually by the Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio, the TEC Awards honor the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, films, TV shows and live performances.

TEC Awards nominations are made by a panel of industry professionals and voted upon by by members of (Read more...)

Status Quos album Pictures (released in November 2008) celebrated 40 years of Status Quo filling the UK charts with hit after hit. The album was an instant success, charting at No.8 and selling over a quarter of a million copies in the UK alone. In July 2009 the Pictures live tour landed at Montreux in Switzerland as part of the world famous festival. The band, led as always by the twin Telecasters of Francis Rossi & Rick Parfitt, delivered a blistering set of hits and classic tracks from (Read more...)

Since its launch in 2005, i-concerts HDTV and VOD platforms have consistently featured a selection of Eagle Vision programming, with performances from Santana, Deep Purple, Live from Montreux series and more.

As the i-concerts brand continues to extend its reach, its HDTV channel is now available across all IPTV and digital cable households in France. The i-concerts VOD platform also recently launched in Italy on Fastweb, and across Eastern Europe with Airbites, in addition to being (Read more...)

Vom Koch zum Konzertchef: Claude Nobs leitet seit 43 Jahren erfolgreich das Montreux Jazz Festival. Stars wie Jamie Cullum, Lily Allen oder Alice Cooper nennen ihn «Daddy» und lieben Racletteessen auf seiner Terrasse.

A few mentors have marked the life of Claude Nobs, Founder and CEO of the Montreux Jazz Festival, and Quincy Jones is definitely one of them. Quincy’s 75th birthday was an ideal opportunity to pay a tribute. For almost a year, work was underway to make this evening a unique world event and all the artists accepted without hesitating, some even volunteering to take part!

The result is a very impressive line-up and a very well-deserved tribute to a giant who has one of the most remarkable (Read more...)

B.B. King has been one of the most frequent visitors to Montreux with nearly twenty appearances down the years. Always a vibrant and charismatic live performer, this 1993 concert will surely rank as one of his finest from any venue and captures B.B. King right at the top of his form with a superb backing band and a great set list. It all goes to show that B.B. is still the "King Of The Blues".

With: B.B. King, guitar, vocal; Walter King, sax; Melvin Jackson, sax; James Bolden, trumpet; Leon (Read more...)

Return To Forever were at the forefront of jazz/rock fusion in the seventies and like their contemporaries Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra were formed by a former Miles Davis sideman, in this case the great Chick Corea. Return To Forever hit their commercial and artistic peak with a string of albums in the mid-seventies featuring the line-up of Chick Corea on keyboards, Stanley Clarke on bass, Al Di Meola on guitar and Lenny White on drums. In 2008 this classic line-up reunited for (Read more...)

During the celebration of the 40th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival last year, founder Claude Nobs underlined the urgency of properly preserving the 40 years' worth of Festival material that has accumulated since its conception.
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Montreux Sounds SA have decided to join forces to create a unique and first of a kind high resolution digital archive of the Montreux Jazz Festivals.
EPFL hosts one of the most renowned and largest centers (Read more...)