Miles & Quincy: Live at Montreux (1991)

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, this concert brought Miles Davis and Quincy Jones together on the same stage for the very first time—a masterstroke by Claude Nobs. The event is unique in more ways than one: for the only time in his career, Miles revisits his own repertoire, notably his collaborations with Gil Evans. Conceived by Quincy Jones, the project brought together two major orchestras—the Gil Evans Orchestra and George Gruntz’s Concert Jazz Band—alongside Miles’s quartet. Recorded just months before his passing, this concert remains one of the most iconic moments in the Festival’s history.

Claude Nobs’ Legacy

In Montreux, taking the stage means becoming part of history. From 1967 onwards, Claude Nobs personally invited the artists — and he didn’t stop there: he recorded, archived and carefully preserved their performances with unwavering passion and attention to detail. This visionary approach gave rise to the Montreux Jazz Festival’s Claude Nobs Collection (1967–2012), produced by Montreux Sounds. In 2013, the archive was inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register overseen by the Claude Nobs Foundation, and has been preserved and further developed with EPFL since 2007.