Montreux Sounds
The Montreux Jazz Festival video library is the largest testimony of live music recorded on the same stage, both in audio and video, for the past 44 years - more than 4’000 bands among others were filmed in Montreux resulting in 10’000 recording tapes (read more...)
..Informations..

This event will happen from 2010-08-26 to 2010-09-02
Every day
Icon travels to Switzerland where jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones sound check for the Montreux festival.

On 2010-07-12

On 2010-07-08

This event will happen from 2010-07-01 to 2010-07-17
Every day

CHF 298.00
For the first time, Claude Nobs tells his own story and that of the Montreux Jazz Festival. On 1892 pages in four volumes, illustrated with over 2000 stunning and evocative images, the director and founder of a unique, world-famous event retraces its fascinating history from the early days to the present. By evoking the incredible list of artists who have performed inMontreux, Claude Nobs goes back over an incredible epic that began more than forty years ago.
Each of the 5000 (Read more...)


On 2010-06-26
Claude Nobs est un grand de la musique du monde. Depuis plus de quatre décennies, il accueille à Montreux – cette année du 2 au 17 juillet –toutes les stars du jazz, du rock, du reggae, du blues. Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Cohen ont été les invités, parmi beaucoup d’autres, de ce passionné. Gros plan sur un festival hors norme et sur son fondateur.Relative document:
264_The_Sound_of_Music.pdf
264_The_Sound_of_Music.pdf

This event will happen from 2010-06-23 to 2010-06-25
Every day
Carte blanche au Montreux Jazz Festival 23-25.06.10En 1967, Claude Nobs créait un petit festival aux pieds dans l’eau. Savait-il qu’il deviendrait bientôt l’un des plus célèbres au monde, ce Montreux Jazz Festival par lequel toute la planète musicale est passée, de Miles Davis à Prince ? Durant trois soirs de carte blanche, le CCS accueille des révélations montreusiennes. Comme le Cubain Harold Lopez Nussa, qui a remporté en 2005 le concours de piano du festival. Comme (Read more...)

On 2010-06-21
"Claude Nobs is closely associated with the Festival, but it clearly does not define his life. Music has played a central role in his life and is a vital part of who the man is, but the joy of accomplishment through human interaction probably better defines the person..."
By Timothy G. Nash, Keith A. Pretty and John Daly

On 2010-05-15

On 2010-05-08
iConcerts is the first cross-plaform live music channel . Watch our channel on HDTV, or choose from over 1000 live shows on our on-demand platforms. Find out more at www.i-concerts.com

On 2010-04-07
UK-based food travel experts SSP will open the first Montreux Jazz Cafe concept outside of Switzerland, at Terminal 1 of Sydney International Airport in Australia, in May 2010.

On 2010-05-08
iConcerts - Rock - Santana & Co - Later with Jools Holland
Over the past twelve years the series has garnered critical acclaim and become the best-loved music programme on the BBC. Shot live, "Later..." has played host to over 500 of the world's finest bands.
Over the past twelve years the series has garnered critical acclaim and become the best-loved music programme on the BBC. Shot live, "Later..." has played host to over 500 of the world's finest bands.

On 2010-03-08
iConcerts - Pop - Jamiroquai - Live at Montreux
Jamiroquai are one of the most successful British acts to come out of the nineties. They have had four UK No.1 albums and none of their albums have charted lower than No.3. Their recent 'best of' release 'High Times: The Singles', released in November 2006, went straight in at No.1 and has gone double platinum (600,000 copies) in the UK as well as topping the charts across much of Europe and scoring high in the US. 2003 saw Jamiroquai's third (Read more...)
Jamiroquai are one of the most successful British acts to come out of the nineties. They have had four UK No.1 albums and none of their albums have charted lower than No.3. Their recent 'best of' release 'High Times: The Singles', released in November 2006, went straight in at No.1 and has gone double platinum (600,000 copies) in the UK as well as topping the charts across much of Europe and scoring high in the US. 2003 saw Jamiroquai's third (Read more...)

On 2009-09-20
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...)

On 2010-02-04
iConcerts - Hard Rock - Korn - Live at Montreux 2004
Korn came out of California in the early nineties and went on to become one of the most globally successful metal acts of their generation. They continue to play live to vast crowds and have record sales in the millions. This concert from Montreux in 2004 is their only performance at the festival to date. It was to be one of the last shows to feature the band's original line-up with guitarist Brian Welch leaving the group a few months later. (Read more...)
Korn came out of California in the early nineties and went on to become one of the most globally successful metal acts of their generation. They continue to play live to vast crowds and have record sales in the millions. This concert from Montreux in 2004 is their only performance at the festival to date. It was to be one of the last shows to feature the band's original line-up with guitarist Brian Welch leaving the group a few months later. (Read more...)


On 2009-12-08
Naturally 7 were founded in New York City in 1999 by brothers Roger and Warren Thomas. A group of hugely talented vocalists they go one step further by also producing all their instrumental sounds with their voices. They released their debut album on an independent label in 2000 and signed to Sony/BMG in 2003. Their version of Phil Collins' 'In The Air Tonight' performed on a New York subway train has received over 4,000,000 hits on You Tube. This concert marked their debut at the Montreux (Read more...)

On 2009-01-08
The Montreux Jazz Festival has established itself as one of the most prestigious annual music events in the world. In 1980 Marvin Gaye performed a selection of his greatest hits including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "How Sweet It Is", "What's Going On", "Got To Give It Up" and "I Heard It Through The Grapevine".

Note added on 2008-12-05
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 of (Read more...)
MONTREUX SOUNDS
Montreux Jazz Cafe

All news
This section



