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Eagle Rock Entertainment came up a winner at the 30th Annual Blues Music Awards, held May 7 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tenn.

Eagle Rock "Albert Collins: Live at Montreux 1992 CD, released in March 2008, was named "Historical Album of the Year".

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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...)

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# Format: PAL 0, NTSC
# DVD Release Date: March 24, 2009
# ASIN: B001OB4ZSW

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# DVD Release Date: May 12, 2009
# ASIN: B001JL3B4Q

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David Sanborn has been a frequent visitor to the Montreux Jazz Festival, either headlining in his own right, as a sideman or as part of nineties "supergroup" Legends. This DVD focuses on his second headlining appearance in 1984 when he was touring in support of his Straight To The Heart album, which would see him win the second of his six Grammy Awards to date. The set combines tracks from that album with others from across his career. It features a special guest appearance by Rickie Lee Jones (Read more...)

Wayne Shorter is one of the most significant jazz performers of modern times. He performed as part of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and then Miles Davis' band in the sixties before co-founding Weather Report with Joe Zawinul in the early seventies. This Montreux concert from 1996 features the Wayne Shorter Quintet and followed on from the release of his Grammy Award winning album "High Life". The main show is supplemented by bonus tracks from two earlier appearances at Montreux in 1991 and 1992 (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...)