57th Montreux 2023 |

We followed the build-up for 2023 — now it is show time: images from the festival

2023 poster by Guillaume Grandois is here – details on the website.

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Program: (paid & free)

Mathieu Jaton, CEO of Montreux Jazz, introduces Jacob Collier. 9th Juy 2023 in the Stravinsky Auditorium.

Original poster art-work photographed in the Montreux Festival shop in the convention center, see photos below.

The work depicts the night-time ripples of Lake Geneva, illuminated by the event’s lively waterfront.

Montreux (webcam) at 1am on Friday morning . . !

LIVE-STREAM option

Live-streamed concerts this year are on YouTube — remaining visible on the Montreux site for about 24 hours a much better solution than the more complicated method and restricted viewing times of last year. Thanks to this facility, we gained a new experience presented by Woraklis in the Montreux Jazz Lab (Miles Davis hall).

Ways to know Worakls better: — 1. Worakls – Digital DGTL (Full Live) — 2. Worakls Orchestra Live @ ZEvent 2022 — The Montreux live-stream remained valid for 24 hours and was then made ‘private’.

Montreux Jazz Festival website describes it this way:
“The Worakls Orchestra’s programme includes soaring rhythms, a thumping bass and a 20-piece orchestra to bring their fusion of electronic and classical music to boiling point. Borrowing from baroque and techno as much for their emotional capacity as for their freedom of tone, the Parisian producer has meticulously balanced two worlds still often considered incompatible. Their latest album Orchestra offers tracks that sound like short films, because they are so graphic. Music without words, but which speaks volumes. This is the promise of a concert that bridges two genres that have much more in common than we might think. “

Our tickets for Jacob Collier and Jon Batiste: Main aim to finally see Jacob live. Jon Batiste was less known to us so we listened to very fine instrumentals on video. Unfortunately the Stravinsky concert with his band made those ear plugs essential, and leaving little space for appreciating his instrumental skills. The floor was jumping but the music retreated behind the deafening beat, pity. More pity was we missed the later jam session where he and Collier played piano and keyboard together.

We are told that Jon Batiste is ‘on vacation’ in Montreux — he gives a “workshop” at the Lake House Thursday (Memphis room) his concert is on Sunday. Photos from our festival reconnaissance 2-hour sneak-peak preview.