#jazz at montreux

[hezigler]

Miles Davis & Quincy Jones & the Gil Evans Orchestra (1991)HD

[forever70s]

Etta James performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland (1975)

[lisamarie-vee]

[nofatclips]

Liar by Emilie Zoé from the album Live at Montreux Jazz 2022

[dianessunflower]

RAYE being the cutest little angel at the Montreux Jazz Festival–July 18, 2024

[fabiche]

Montreux Jazz Festival 1976

[greendayauthority]

Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, 7 July 2013

[ausetkmt]

Miles Davis & Chaka Khan: Human Nature (live in Montreux 1989)

THIS IS FANTASTIQUE. Check out Miles and Chaka Blowinnnnnnnnnnnn

[roseband]

I can make you mad, I can make you scream I can make you cry, I can make you leave I can make you hate me for everything But I can't make you come back to me

[pop-art-sixties-seventies]

Affiche du Festival de Jazz de Montreux, 1968.

[metalcultbrigade]

On December 4th, in 1971, the Montreux Casino burned down during a concert by The Mothers of Invention after a fan had set the venue on fire with a flare gun. A recording of the outbreak and fire announcement can be found on a Frank Zappa Bootleg album titled Swiss Cheese/Fire!

The song "Smoke on the Water" by English rock group Deep Purple, who had planned to record Machine Head at the venue and whom the fire forced to seek an alternate recording location, is about the incident:

We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline / To make records with a mobile - We didn't have much time / Frank Zappa & the Mothers were at the best place around / But some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground / Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky...

The Casino was subsequently rebuilt, and during the interim the Montreux Jazz Festival was held in other auditoriums in Montreux, until it could return to the newly re-opened Casino in 1975. The Festival continued to be hosted there until 1993, when it moved to the larger Montreux Convention Centre located approximately one kilometre from the Casino. From 1995 through 2006, the Festival occupied both the Convention Centre and the Casino. Beginning with the 41st Festival in 2007, nightly performances of headliners were again moved mainly to the Convention Centre, although the Casino still hosts the odd one-off show.

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Soir 💙 🎹 🎤 👌

Ray Charles 🎶 Song For You

(Live at Montreux 1997)

[hotdyke-hardstyle]

Victoria De Angelis at the Montreux Jazz Festival (2022)

Close To The Top

[lucienballard]

Montreux Jazz Festival Poster ...

Artwork by Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, 1986.

[dianessunflower]

RAYE performs at the Montreux Jazz Festival –July 23, 2024

Live at Montreux out now.