The Montreux Years (Live 1971 - 2008) Roberta Flack

• 1 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Live at Montreux, 2005) 04:17
• 2 I'd Like to Be Baby to You (Live at Montreux, 1990) 04:44
• 3 More Than You'll Ever Know (Live at Montreux, 1990) 04:46
• 4 Always (Live at Montreux, 1990) 04:51
• 5 Soft and Gentle Rain (Live at Montreux, 2005) 03:18
• 6 Sweet Georgia Brown (Live at Montreux, 2008) 05:24
• 7 Killing Me Softly with His Song (Live at Montreux, 2005) 06:05
• 8 Suzanne (Live at Montreux, 1972) 10:22
• 9 Mercy Mercy Me (Live at Montreux, 2005) 06:06
• 10 Somewhere (Live at Montreux, 1972) 03:30
• 11 To Love Somebody (Live at Montreux, 1971) 07:47
• 12 Feel Like Makin' Love (Live at Montreux, 2005) 07:22
• 13 Feelin' That Glow (Live at Montreux, 2008) 03:01
• Total Runtime 01:11:33

Info for The Montreux Years (Live 1971 - 2008)

The Montreux Jazz Festival announce the return of their prestigious live collection series, with a brand new release ‘Roberta Flack: The Montreux Years’.

The album, features a sublime collection of Roberta Flack’s Montreux Jazz Festival performances spanning four decades, from her debut appearance in 1971 through to her last in 2008. Fully restored and superbly mastered for the first time by Tony Cousins at London’s Metropolis Studios, the unique recordings come with exclusive liner notes by her long-term manager Suzanne Koga, and rare and unseen photography. Ahead of the album’s release, the track “I’d Like To Be Baby To You” from Roberta Flacks’ 1990 Montreux Jazz Festival concert is available to stream now.

One of the most distinctive and powerful voices in contemporary music, Roberta Flack rose to global prominence in the early 1970s with recordings that shaped her legacy, including the timeless “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and the era-defining “Killing Me Softly With His Song”. A classically trained pianist and vocalist, she developed an artistry that was both technically refined and emotionally resonant, moving effortlessly between soul, jazz, pop and folk.

“The Montreux Years” embodies the spirit of the Montreux Jazz Festival and the legacy of Claude Nobs, the Festival’s founder. Until his passing in January 2013, he personally invited and welcomed artists to Montreux and built his collection of Festival recordings (Montreux Sounds)—more than 4,000 live recordings made between 1967 and 2012, with those up to 1986 produced in collaboration with RTS – Radio Télévision Suisse. Inscribed in 2013 on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register under the title “The Montreux Jazz Festival – Claude Nobs’ Legacy,” the Collection is preserved by the Claude Nobs Foundation, in partnership with the EPFL Center for Cultural Heritage and Innovation.

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.

Casino Kursaal Saturday June 19th 1971:

Roberta Cleopatra Flack, vocals, piano
Terry Flannery, upright bass
Jerry Jemmott, electric bass
Eric Gale, guitar
Ralph MacDonald, percussion
Rick Marotta, drums
Richard Tee, Fender Rhodes

Montreux Pavillon Saturday August 5th 1972:

Roberta Cleopatra Flack, vocals, piano
Eric Gale, guitar
Richard Tee, piano, organ
Jerry Jemmott, bass
Terry Plumeri, upright bass
Ralph MacDonald, percussion
Spider Webb/Kenneth Rice, drums
Donald Lease, backing vocals
Wayne Davis, backing vocals

Casino Montreux Tuesday July 17th 1990:

Roberta Cleopatra Flack, vocals, piano
Barry Miles, keyboards
Steve Ferrone, drums
Roger Byam, saxophone
Jerry Barnes, bass
Philip Hamilton, guitar
Gabrielle Goodman, backing vocals
Phil Perry, vocals
Santita Jackson, backing vocals

Auditorium Stravinski Thursday July 14th 2005:

Roberta Cleopatra Flack vocals, piano
Shelton Becton, keyboards
Ricardo Jordan, drums
Arturo Tappin flute, saxophone
Jerry Barnes, bass
Sherrod Barnes, guitar
Tony Terry, vocals

Auditorium Stravinski Friday July 11th 2008:

Roberta Cleopatra Flack, vocals, piano
Shelton Becton, keyboards
Ricardo Jordan, drums
Arturo Tappin, saxophone
Nicholas Brancker, bass
Terry Antonio, backing vocals

Digitally remastered

Internationally hailed as one of the greatest songstresses of our time, GRAMMY Award winning Roberta Flack remains unparalleled in her ability to tell a story through her music. Her songs bring insight into our lives, loves, culture and politics, while effortlessly traversing a broad musical landscape from pop to soul to folk to jazz.

Classically trained on the piano from an early age, Ms. Flack received a music scholarship at age 15 to attend Howard University. Discovered while singing at the Washington, DC nightclub Mr. Henry's by jazz musician Les McCann, she was promptly signed to Atlantic With a string of hits, including, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Where Is the Love (a duet with former Howard University classmate Donny Hathaway), Killing Me Softly With His Song, Feel Like Makin' Love, The Closer I Get to You, Tonight I Celebrate My Love, and Set the Night to Music, Ms. Flack has built a musical legacy. In 1999, she aptly received a Star on Hollywood's legendary Walk of Fame.

Roberta is currently involved with a very exciting studio venture — an interpretive album of Beatles' classics.

She regularly plays to appreciative audiences around the world, and had the pleasure of appearing recently with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, conducted by Marvin Hamlisch. In February 2009, Ms. Flack performed with critically acclaimed orchestras in Australia, including the Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide, Tasmanian, West Australian and Sydney Symphonies.

Very active as a humanitarian and mentor, Ms. Flack founded the Roberta Flack School of Music at the Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx, providing an innovative and inspiring music education program to underprivileged students free of charge.

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