Montreux Jazz Festival

A previously unheard rendition of B.B. King's The Thrill Is Gone has now been released.

It was recorded at Casino Montreux during the 1990 Montreux Jazz Festival.

It's from the upcoming album B.B. King The Montreux Years out November 20th.

Hear it now at bluesrockreview.com. Alistair Green has premiered his new single, Last Train Around the Sun, on Blues Rock Review.

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And the live version she does at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

It's like... or even just on the film you could see how electric it is yeah there's sort of like moments where you're just like like you start talking about with with our flying show where you sort of like lean up and forward and just doing that through the video god imagine what it was like when it was there yeah it's like a really long song um and it's it's like she's the best cover artist of all time by the way like hands down if nina simone does this song it's her song now in my mind anyway um and she gets to the end and she just transitions into feelings um it's this heartbreaking six minutes for stars and then she goes feelings nothing more than and she's like going in the audience like why aren't you joining in and the audience is just like she's like go

grow up fucking join in

I learned so much.

I just learned so much and didn't have a great deal of experience, even particularly performing on stage, representing myself before my first ever gig, which was at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, opening for Hobie Hancock and Chick Corea.

It was my first gig ever.

Crazy, crazy night.

Quincy finally wore him down, recalling that Miles eventually agreed by saying, OK, motherfucker.

They appeared together with a full orchestra at the 25th Annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 8, 1991.

The concert opens with Bublicity, which we heard from the album Birth of the Cool.

I saw it as a precursor to the three Evans Davis projects, so interesting that Miles and Quincy must have as well.

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Today we are discussing the song, compared to what, off the album, Swiss Movement, Les McCann and Eddie Harris at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

It was recorded June 21st, 1969.

It's got Eddie Harris on tenor sack, Les McCann on piano, Benny Bailey trumpet, Leroy Vinegar bass, Donald Dean drums.

So Bob wrote an album for the band of all Herbie Hancock music.

which we went to Europe and played the Montreux Jazz Festival.

And that's from this recording.

It's live in Montreux, Eye of the Hurricane, which I have a feature on.

Basically doing a hip-hop 101 course for freshmen and sophomores.

And a bunch of speaking engagements and lectured at Amsterdam Academy for Theater and Dance, Montreux Jazz Festival, did a lecture on Fela Kuti there, interviewed Arthur Baker there.

And it also really was a stark reminder that, you know, The whole notion of a DJ and a master of ceremonies going together usually means two people.

And it gave me the chops and the wherewithal to go from keeping a journal, to writing poetry, to performing poetry, to recording it on albums and on voiceovers and commercials, to teaching at a public institution.

Um, but then within that, you kind of find ways to bring through younger talent and nurture it.

So when I think back to, like, the Southbank and we had, um, a partnership with the Montreux Jazz Festival, and for the first event that we did for them which was celebrating the legacy of Nina Simone, we worked with Corinne Bailey Rae and Laura Mvula as, like, the big headliners, and then, uh, China Moses as well.

And then also, uh, I brought through Ne Maxine, uh, who, uh, you know, is an, an artist who's doing great stuff at the moment, really cutting her teeth.

And, and it's about thinking about where are the right artists and where can you bring them through and give them those, like, moments to, like, step on a big stage.