Montreux Jazz Festival DVDs

John McLaughlin - Remember Shakti: Way Of Beauty

The 60 minute documentary, Shakti Timeless, tells the story of the Indo-western music group Shakti. Formed in 1975, the group pioneered a groundbreaking and highly influential musical East-meets-West approach. John and Zakir speak about their beginnings, their era with L.Shankar and T.H. Vinayakram. More...

The Montreux Dream -
The story of the Montreux Jazz Festival

From B.B.King's blues to the soul of Beverley Knight, from REM to American College bands, the Montreux Jazz Festival is the most successful and respected European jazz festival in the world. Over the last 30 years it has attracted the finest artists More...

This documentary also features Miles Davis, BB King, Aretha Franklin, George Duke, Peter Buck & Michael Stipe, and more. Special features include the complete BB King Montreux Workshop.  

Carlos Santana - Hymns for Peace

On July 15, 2004, Santana took to the stage in Montreux accompanied by a stunning line-up of guests to perform a concert of songs about peace and understanding that they dubbed Hymns For Peace. More...

Joining the regular Santana line-up in the band were Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Coltrane, and Idrissa Diop with further guest appearance through the night from Angelique Kidjo, Barbara Morrison, Patti Austin, Sylver Sharp, Steve Winwood, and Nile Rodgers. Also included are additional tracks, behind the scenes footage, and Santana interview.

Nina Simone - Live at Montreux

This DVD includes Nina Simone's entire performance from 1976 as the main feature and is supplemented by bonus features including 2 tracks from her concert in 1987 and 4 from her final show in 1990. More...

Stuff: Steve Gadd - Eric Gale - Cornell Dupree - Richard Tee - Live At Montreux 1976

Stuff, caught here in their only performance at Montreux, combined the talents of five amazing musicians. Individually they were among the most sought after session players of their day, but together as Stuff they had a magic all of their own. This DVD also features a guest appearance from vocalist Odetta on "Oh Happy Day". More...

LARRY CORYELL / AL DI MEOLA / BIRELLI LAGRENE

These 3 virtuoso musicians have collaborated at various times in their careers, but this concert from 1989 come from the only tour they did together as a trio. They perform a mixture of tracks from each of their solo repertoires plus special arrangements of some of their favorite tracks by other artists. More...

Voices of Concord

Diane Schuur, Karrin Allyson, Peter Cincotti, Nnenna Freelon, Patti Austin, Monica Mancini, Curtis Stigers.

Weather Report - Live at Montreux

This Montreux Festival show from 1976 follows on from the release of their album "Black Market".  This line-up features Joe Zawinul (keyboards), Wayne Shorter (saxophones), Jaco Pastorius (bass), Alex Acuna (drums), and Manolo Badrena (percussion). Previously only available as a bootleg of a TV broadcast, this new DVD release is fully authorized and has been restored to its full length. More...