A new 2-CD set features a decades-old recording of Mingus and his quintet at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival. Citic Kevin Whitehead says the album showcases one of Mingus' most explosive bands.

The Smile will release a new live album, The Smile at Montreux Jazz Festival July 2022, as a digital-only release on Dec. 14. In addition to the new live album, a film of the Smile's set, which ...

When you’ve been in Radiohead together for nearly 40 years, what’s left for two childhood buddies to do but travel the world with a nasty jazz drummer, flexing chops on near half the instruments in ...

The good people behind the iconic Montreux Jazz Festival have made over 50 live recordings from the event freely available (until April 18) to enjoy during your lockdown music sessions. If you’ve ...

The Radiohead offshoot’s new live album is both an unexpected treat and a flex, proving the trio can replicate its gnarliest, most thrilling material onstage and sans studio trickery. Save this story ...

No matter at what point, or for how long you dipped into the Montreux Jazz Festival during the seventeen days of its 50th edition, the sense of history was palpable. Charles Lloyd was present, just as ...

To celebrate Montreux Jazz Festival's 50th edition in 2016, and as a posthumous tribute to the festival's founder, the late Claude Nobs, All About Jazz is launching a new column entitled Montreux ...

Already in possession of one of the year’s best-reviewed albums in the form of its debut full-length, A Light for Attracting Attention, the Smile will close out 2022 with the live release The Smile at ...

Montreux Jazz Festival has revealed its line-up for 2025, including a one-off Chaka Khan tribute to her collaborator Quincy Jones, who was the festival’s co-producer in the 1990s and remained an ...

Emily Estefan is following in the footsteps of her Miami music royalty parents Emilio and Gloria Estefan, who are longtime ambassadors of the city's live music experience. Estefan performs at the ...

"Free in the Knowledge & A Hairdryer" (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) "The Smoke" (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) "You Will Never Work in Television Again" (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) The Smile ...