The Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online

http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-treasured-montreux-jazz-festival-archive-is-no/

by fgeorgy • 10 years ago

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linker3000• 10 years ago

I'll be on site at EPFL in a few weeks (and later Montreux) to install some object storage systems related to this project, so getting a kick out of this posting!

Steko• 10 years ago

I was lucky enough to go in '92 and Les VRP killed it, can't wait to see how the HD (from '91) video holds up to my memories.

edit: or maybe they just have the main stage artists; oh well still a great resource :)

memonkey• 10 years ago

This is great! Current jazz artists are going to love this.

chrissnell• 10 years ago

Very awesome. Has anybody figured out a way to embed the videos? Would like to share a few of these off-site.

bezzi• 10 years ago

Does the website takes forever to load or it's just on my computer?

officemonkey2• 10 years ago

I can imagine that they're getting a bit of a traffic spike today.

tombrossman• 10 years ago

NoScript users, this is one of those rare sites that is never going to work even after temporarily whitelisting everything. Try youtube-dl, it works perfectly once you get to the individual video pages and have a URL. https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

I can't complain about the lack of functionality since I'm using a very restrictive add-on, but I hope that helps other NoScript users.

conceit• 10 years ago

How could that be?

tobylane• 10 years ago

From two years ago London Grammar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENUOG86xG-o

jarnix• 10 years ago

Is it a full archive though? I can only find a few videos and the search returns only a list, maybe it's just that the site is overloaded right now.

melle• 10 years ago

The actual archive is at http://www.montreuxjazz.com

netman21• 10 years ago

Could not find either of Stevie Ray Vaughn's appearances. '82 and '84. A glitch, or just embarrassed to air the crowd booing him?

aczerepinski• 10 years ago

I don't dislike or object to blues, indie rock, reggae, heavy metal, hip hop, etc... but it would be great if a jazz festival website prominently featured jazz music. It was surprisingly hard to navigate this site and find any jazz music.

brianzelip• 10 years ago

The majority of the landing page is jazz on my end, so not sure about your difficulty.

The site is, however, very slow to respond and a bit buggy. Maybe HN effect.

officemonkey2• 10 years ago

You should try searching for actual Jazz musicians, instead of say, REM.

sleepless2• 10 years ago

Hmmm. The performance of Nina Simone is outstanding: http://montreuxjazz.com/ladies-jazz

But I totally do not understand how the website is structured. Is there a full performance of that gig? If yes, where? I find a lot of meta sites evolving around how great the archiving is. But I can't find a good way to search the now publicized concerts and find background info for the video playing.

Maybe site is just overload? http://imgur.com/fciOOpQ

sleepless2• 10 years ago

Sidenote: displaying the player controls not in the video but at the very bottom of the page is interesting, but will likely lead to more confusion for many users. I think it would be better to display them in the video window as the major video websites do.

The Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online

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