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Do TikTok Users Care About Jazz? The Montreux Jazz Festival Thinks So
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HypeBot
The famous Montreux Jazz Festival has partnered with TikTok for a series of live performances of new and emerging artists. The Montreux Jazz Festival (MJF) has announced a UK and European partnership with TikTok surrounding new initiative, MJF Spotlight. The initiative was launched in 2021 by MJF to support new and emerging artists and new music in the form of content creation and live performances. MJF will be releasing a series of live performances on the TikTok platform under the ...
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Video: Bill Evans at Montreux '78
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On the evening of Wednesday, July 12, 1978, the Bill Evans Trio took the stage and performed an 11-song set in the Casino de Montreux at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. Evans's face was just starting to show the haggard strains of his regular drug use and tireless touring. His hands weren't puffy yet, a condition that develops after long-term intravenous drug addiction. As a result, his playing at Montreux was still tender and measured, not agitated and ...
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Montreux Jazz Festival 2020 Cancelled
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Martin McFie
"This year's Montreux Jazz Festival, which was set to take place from July 3 to 18, has been cancelled" announced Press Officer Marc Zendrini. Montreux Jazz Festival has regretfully announced that this year's event, which was due to be held between July 3—18th 2020, will not take place. The program planned for this summer will be partly carried over to next year's Festival, which will take place from July 2—17 2021. The Swiss Federal Council announced that it would be ...
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Charles Mingus: Montreux '75
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On July 20, 1975, Charles Mingus was in Montreux, Switzerland, to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He was on tour to promote Changes One and Changes Two, a pair of albums recorded for Atlantic in December 1974. They are among the bassist's finest albums of the decade and were his first studio recordings in the States up until that point in the 1970s. For better or worse, a bulk of Mingus's 1970s albums were concert recordings. Now, Eagle Rock ...
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Jazz Vocalist Kendra Shank And Guitarist John Stowell Release Extraordinary Duo Album New York Conversations April 8 On TCB – The Montreux Jazz Label
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
There are a million jazz stories in the naked city, and New York Conversations captures some of the most revelatory ones. An extraordinary encounter between the supremely inventive vocalist Kendra Shank and the brilliant guitarist John Stowell, a player with a beautiful touch and rarified harmonic vocabulary who specializes in high-wire duo projects, the album came together quickly, with a minimum of planning. While Shank and Stowell’s musical friendship dates back more than two decades, New York Conversations is their ...
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Miles Davis at Montreux: 1973-91
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
It's impossible to overstate the importance of Miles Davis—although lately it has been a lot easier to do so. In recent years, the market has been inundated with Davis recordings in the form of double-CDs, box sets and steamer trunks of calbums. All have forced jazz consumers to discriminate between what they purchase and what they leave behind. By default, the consumer has had to separate Davis' periods into those that matter and those that matter less. For example, I've ...
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Esthetes d'Affiches - Tribute to the Montreux Jazz Festival posters' designers
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tordjman
David Bowie, Phil Collins, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Milton Glaser, James Rizzi, Romero Britto, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Burton Morris, Zep... the greatest painters, graphic designers, photographers and contemporary artists designed the posters of the Montreux Jazz Festival. On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival, these graphic creations are collected for the first time in one book. Jean-Jacques Tordjman has chosen to join the verb to accompany every artwork by an original literary ...
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Average White Band - Live at Montreux 1977 (2011)
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Something Else!
Improperly named, the Average White Band was anything but. First off, one of the rhythm guys, at least by this point, wasn't white. Second, and this is far more important, they funked it up with a vigor and style that would never be confused with average. Initially formed in the late 1960s by Scots saxophonists Malcolm “Molly" Duncan and Roger Ball, AWB later expanded to include bass playing vocalist Alan Gorrie, the late drummer Robbie McIntosh (replaced here by Steve ...
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Canned Heat, Featuring Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Live at Montreux 1973 (2011)
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Something Else!
Canned Heat, the doomed boogie-blues revivalists, only made a lone appearance at the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival. Yet they still managed some star-crossed magic. By 1973, co-frontman Alan “Blind Owl" Wilson had already tragically passed, an overdose victim at just 27. Stepping in, however, with Bob “The Bear" Hite and the rest of his Delta-rocking brethren was Clarence “Gatemouth" Brown, giving this recording a vibrating once-in-a-lifetime specialness. Already huge festival draws, after signature appearances at Monterey Pop in 1967 and ...
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Montreux Festival Confirms Appetite for Live Music
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AAJ Staff
Montreux Festival confirms appetite for live music By Jason Rhodes and Stephanie Nebehay
The small-scale but often exclusive concerts at the Montreux Jazz Festival, now in its 44th year, continue to be packed even as shows in massive venues are feeling the economic pain.
Listeners are still paying top-dollar for tickets to hear big names play in the festival's intimate halls, which boast exceptional sound quality and are set in idyllic surroundings on the shores of Lake Geneva with ...
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