The treasured Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online

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04. EPFL's Metamedia Center will soon finish digitizing the Montreux Jazz Festival archive, and an initial selection of concerts has been made available at montreuxjazz.com. Do you feel like reliving Marvin Gaye's concert in 1980 or Bowie's 2002 show, or Etta James's incredible performance in 1975? Now you can, at montreuxjazz.com. This website offers free access to more than 800 performances recorded at Montreux. This unique audiovisual heritage, of both local and global interest, was made possible by the festival's founder Claude Nobs. In 2013, it was included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. When the Montreux Jazz Festival began in 1967, Nobs had the concerts recorded, and he kept this visual and auditory memory of more than 4,000 concerts in his 'bunker' in Caux.
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