Claude Nobs created the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 and covered 46 editions as Director
25'000 musicians played Montreux
Over 12 million visitors since '67
LPs, CDs and DVDs/Blu-ray Discs published by the Artists
6 Grammy AWARDS for 13 nominations
2 Latin Grammy AWARD
1 OSCARS nomination for Miles Davis documentary (2020)
1 EMMY Award, 6 nominations for Nina Simone's documentary (2016)
Tens of gold, platinum, multi-platinum records
More than 2 billion views on YouTube since 2008, including 65 million for B.B. King’s “Live at Montreux”
400 million streamings (Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon etc.)
7,000+ concerts recorded
11,000+ hours of video, of which 5,000 in High Definition
6,000+ hours of audio of which 2/3 in multitrack format
25 different Audio & Video tape formats
150,000 professional photographies digitized
Representing
14,000 magnetic tapes, weighing 30 tons
600 meters of shelves
14,5 PetaBytes of storage (14,500 TeraBytes) @ EPFL
500 people in 25 Research Labs, start-ups and partner institutions involved @ EPFL since 2010