MUSIC: Montreux Jazz Festival 2005

So, we had our yearly “Montreux’ event” yesterday evening. As usual, very nice atmosphere, Montreux is a beautiful place, specially with the lake. The people are very nice, no stress, good organization. Plus some Davidoff “Grand Cru Nr.4” :-)

The two concerts took place at “the Casino” (see below), the first one with Dianne Reeves, the second with George Duke.

Dianne was great, excellent, superb. Wow, what a singer. Really great. The brand – trio bass/drum/piano – was very solid, very groovy. Plus a good connivance between the four and a real pleasure to play. What a style! I download a video from the Dianne Reeves’ concert (640×480, 30 f/s, 8 bits PCM at 88 kbps, avi/MJPG format), 17s for 32 MB.

[click to download, 32MB]

George Duke was…very disappointing: bad sound (keyboard sounds from the 80’s? Beurk), bad mix – I mean an awful unacceptable mix, musicians who are not really playing together (I am NOT joking), completely boring. We left after the fourth song…. A prestigious past, indeed, a *so* bad performance, pfffuuuuu :-/