Filmed on the closing night of this year's Montreux Festival on July 16, this concert features Deep Purple playing their classic hits with the accompaniment of a full contemporary orchestra conducted by Stephen BK Bentley-Klein. The orchestrated arrangements give an added depth and range to the familiar songs and the band, who are clearly enjoying the experience, deliver one of their finest performances. With a career stretching back into the late sixties and global album sales in excess of 100 (Read more...)

Fans have been waiting for it: the complete collection of Miles Davis Concerts at Montreux is finally available. A box of exception containing 10 DVDs and exclusive interviews with Claude Nobs, Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock.

"These live recordings, spanning nearly 30 years, not only show Miles' creativity but also the major influence he had and still has on today's music. I am very proud that by keeping all these recordings through the years and using only direct mixes, the magic of (Read more...)

Amplidata solution to be demonstrated at SNW 2011

press release

Oct. 10, 2011, 6:00 a.m. EDT

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Amplidata, innovator in unbreakable object-based storage technology, and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), partner for the digitalization of the Montreux Jazz Festival archives, announced today that they are building a disk-based archive for the entire digital video collection of concerts recorded since the Montreux (Read more...)

2010 saw Gary Moore make a return to rock music after a long period of time exploring the blues. He was writing and working on a new rock album when all was brought to a halt by his untimely death on 6 February 2011. This concert from Montreux in July 2010 was his last performance to be filmed. The setlist draws heavily on his hugely successful rock albums of the eighties, stirs in a couple of his classic blues tracks with some memorable hit singles and includes three brand new songs that would (Read more...)

Eagle Rock have set a September 13 release date for Paul Rodgers & Friends' Live At Montreux from 1994 on CD & DVD.

In 1993, Paul Rodgers released the acclaimed blues based album "Muddy Water Blues" (now available on Eagle Records) with contributions from many special guest artists with a shared love for the blues. In July 1994 the tour in support of this album rolled into Montreux. The regular tour band was joined through the evening by a number of special guests to create a typically (Read more...)

Gary Moore fans are still missing their guitar hero, who passed away earlier this year while on holiday in Spain.

There is good news for those fans who need a fix of some fresh Moore, though, as Eagle Records confirms the release next month of “Gary Moore: Live At Montreux 2010.”

Last year, Gary made a conscious return to rock music after a long period of time exploring the blues. In fact, Moore was in the stages of writing and working on a new rock album at the time of his death on (Read more...)

Miles Davis: Live at Montreux 1973-1991 features ten of the best numbers from Davis and his band.

* "Ife"--1973
* "Speak: That's What Happened"--1984
* "Code MD"--1985
* "Pacific Express"--1985
* "Jean-Pierre"--1986
* "Heavy Metal Prelude"--1988
* "Jo Jo"--1989
* "Hannibal"--1990

Two numbers are from Sketches of Spain:

* "The Pan Piper"--1991
* "Solea"--1991

Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats. (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...)