Posts tagged montreux Jazz festival
Daily Poetry: Love of My Life (Dave Matthews and Carlos Santana)

Supernatural was an album that rejuvenated the career of Rock Legend Carlos Santana. The Supernatural album featured collaborations and duets including the ode to romance "Love of My Life" performed with Dave Matthews.

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A Montreux Jazz Festival Moment Jamiroquai – Little L (2003)

Jamiroquai is a band that I loved to hate. Jay Kay was a pop-muppet with silly hats in all his music videos. I felt this until I had a religious experience at 35,000 ft. His performance in my little corner of music heaven (Montreux Jazz Festival) is featured in this clip of a cheeky song that is not about love.

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Yasmine Tamara on the Stage in Geneva - Did I hear Annabel Lee?

Annabel Lee is amongst the greatest poems of love ever written and Edgar Allen Poe's best work next to the Raven. Yasmine Tamara, Switzerland's best kept secret delivers a handful of excepts - songs from her new album in this short video. What do you think of her?

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Daily Poetry - The Voice (Matthew Arnold) of Yasmine Tamara

If Freddie Mercury were alive today, you could bet that he would record this song, The Voice, written by Yasmine Tamara. It has every element of a rock anthem, from a moving story of pain and suffering to an emotional place of resignation. Her stylings are powerful and her voice, hauntingly beautiful.

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Day 2: Montreux Jazz Festival and World Cup

Montreux Jazz is no ordinary music festival. It is the festival for musicians and as well as the fans. The blended demographic of ages and cultures creates a rich tapestry of cultural and flow, as the air is littered with German, French, Swiss German, the odd dash of Portuguese, and English for the rest of us that managed to read a map, take a train and weather the Swiss vibe.

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Day 1 – Planes, Trains and Luggage Trolleys to the Montreux Jazz Festival

Stephenie Rodriguez (@Digitalgodess) commenced her journey to the 44th Annual Montreux Jazz Festival. Day 1 involved a departure from Sydney International Airport, two airplanes, three airports, one shower, six meals, a train ride and an angry luggage cart in Montreux.

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