1971 Montreux Jazz Festival

The Festival proposes an ample nine-day program with more than 300 musicians for its 5th edition. 1971 is the year that the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, comes to Montreux! The Casino stage also welcomes Hampton Hawes, Ahmad Jamal, Tony Williams, Max Roach, Family, Cat Stevens, Chico Hamilton, Slide Hampton and Roberta Flack, The Pebbles and Paul Bley. On 18 June, the evening concerts – with, notably, Larry Coryell, Chico Hamilton and Gato Barbieri – is one of the longest in Festival history since they continue through to breakfast on the following morning! On 21 June, Oliver Nelson & The Festival Big Band and The Quinnipiac College Ensemble are the last artists to perform at the Casino before it burns down in December during a Frank Zappa concert. An event that will leave an indelible mark on Montreux history: present in the hall that day, the Deep Purple group will tell the tale of the fire in its composition “Smoke on the Water”, destined to become a world-wide hit. The words of this song will also earn Claude Nobs his nickname of “Funky Claude”.

Festival 1971 concerts

Aretha Franklin, 12 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	12 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Truman Thomas (organ), King Curtis (sax, b.l.), Jerry Jemmott (bass), Cornell Dupree (gr. + large brass), Aretha Franklin (voc, piano), Bernard Purdie (drums)
Tracks	1 Respect 2 Natural Woman 3 I Say A Little Prayer For You 4 Call Me 5 Brand New Me 6 Share Your Love With Me 7 Don't Play That Song 8 Bridge Over Troubled Water 9 Dr. Feel Good 10 Spirit In The Dark 11 Reach Out And Touch Somebody's Hand

King Curtis and Champion Jack Dupree, 12 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	12 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Champion Jack Dupree (), King Curtis ()
Tracks

Melanie, 12 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	12 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Melanie (voc, g)
Tracks	1 Close To It All 2 Chords Of Fame 3 Baby Guitar 4 Alexander Beetle 5 The Nickel Song 6 Uptown Down 7 Carolina In My Mind 8 Johnny Boy 9 Beautiful People 10 Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma 11 Babe Rainbow 12 Ruby Tuesday 13 Peace Will Come 14 Leftover Wine 15 Lay Down

Dionysos, 13 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	13 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Paul-André Thibert (hca, fl, voc), René André Rodolphe Mathieu (org), Éric Clément (g), Jean-Pierre Legault (b), Robert Lepage (dr, perc)
Tracks	1 Le Prince Croule 2 Suzie 3 L'Age Du Chlore 4 Agneau De Dieu

Family, 13 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	13 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Roger Chapman (voc, hca, tenor sax, perc), John "Charlie" Whitney (g, sitar, kbds), Rob Townsend (dr, perc), John Weider (b, g, vln), John "Poli" Palmer (kbds, fl,synth, vb)
Tracks	1 Part Of The Load 2 Drowned In Wine 3 Lives And Ladies 4 No Mule's Fool 5 Holding The Compass 6 A Song For Me 7 Unknown title

Main Horse Airline, 13 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	13 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Patrick Moraz (org, p, fl, sth, voc), Peter Lockett (g, vln, voc), Jean Ristori (cello, b, voc), Bryson Graham (dr, perc)
Tracks

The Pebbles, 13 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	13 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Fredd Bekky (g, voc), Luk Smets (org, p, acc, voc), Bobb Bobbot (g, voc), Axel Van Duin (b, saxes, voc), Cel De Cauwer (dr)
Tracks	1 Sea Of Madness 2 Lynch Party 3 Woodstock 4 Sunday Morning Trip 5 Free Of Love 6 Half Past Dead 7 Little Free Rock 8 To The Rising Sun 9 Mackintosh 10 Down At Kiki

Tony Williams Lifetime, 13 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	13 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Tony Williams (drums), Don Alias (percussion), Warren Smith (percussion), Ted Dunbar (guitar), Arthur Edward Booth (bass), Larry Young (organ)
Tracks	1 Unknown title 2 Unknown title 3 Emergency 4 The Urichins Of Shermêse 5 Circa 45 6 Big Nick 7 Unknown title 8 Unknown title 9 There Comes A Time 10 Emergency

Total Issue, 13 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	13 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up
Tracks	1 Les Marins 2 Unknown title 3 La Porte Ouverte 4 Dis-Mais-Dis 5 Rustique 6 Résurrection

Benko Dixieland Band, 14 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	14 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Sandor Benko (cl), Bela Zoltan (tp), Ivan Nagy (tb), Bela Bagyari (p), Jeno Nagy (bjo), Istvan Mankovits (b), Janos Jaray (perc)
Tracks	1 Unknown title 2 Louisian-I-AY 3 Unknown title 4 Doctor Jazz 5 St. James Infirmary 6 Fidgeti Feet

Jesper Thilo + Quintet, 14 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	14 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Hugo Rasmussen (b), Torben Munk (g), Jesper Thilo (as, ts), Ole Molin (g), Ove Rex (dr)
Tracks	1 Cherokee 2 Nancy With A Laughing Face 3 The Joker

Kleinschuster, Erich Sextett, 14 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	14 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Hans Salomon (as, ts, b-cl), Fritz Pauer (p), Erich Bachträgl (dr), Dr. Erich Kleinschuster (tb), Leszek Zadlo (fl, ss, as, ts), Rudolf Hansen (b)
Tracks

Slide Hampton and Umea Big Band, 14 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	14 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Slide Hampton (tb)
Tracks	1 Game Free 2 Uptight 3 Griff's Groove 4 Roly Poly 5 The End Of Love

The Michal Urbaniak Group With Urszula Dudziak, 14 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	14 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Michal Urbaniak (as, ss, fl), Urszula Dudziak (voc), Adam Makowicz (p), Pawel Jarzebski (b), Czeslaw Bartkowski (dr)
Tracks	1 Juju 2 Introduction 3 Valium 4 Ej Blues

Helge Hurum Jazz Group, 15 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	15 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Bernt Steen (tp), Roy Hellvin (p), Svein Christiansen (dr), Carl Magnus Neumann (as), Bjoern Holmvik (b)
Tracks

Juhani Aaltonen Quartet, 15 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	15 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Teppo Hauta-Aho (b), Juhani Aaltonen (ts, ss), Heikki Sarmanto (p), Edward Vesala (dr)
Tracks	1 Counterbalance 2 534 3 Moonflower 4 Seagull

Max Roach, 15 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	15 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Max Roach (dr), University Of Northern Colorado Big Band ()
Tracks	1 Patty's Pad 2 Grand Max

Unijazz, 15 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	15 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Bosko Petrovic (vb, tarabooka), Brane Zivkovic (p, org, fl), Salko Mujicic (fl), Vedran Bosic (g), Miljenko Prohaska (b), Ratko Divjak (dr)
Tracks	1 March Of The Wooden Soldiers 2 With Pain I Was Born 3 Song For Koja

University of Northern Colorado Big Band, 15 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Chris Hinze Combination, 16 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	16 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Chris Hinze (), Roger Cooke (), Jimmy Schaperow (), Wim Stolwij ()
Tracks	1 Worms 2 Neighbors 3 Visiting Newark 4 Smelly Fellow 5 Roger New 6 Chris New

Graham Collier Music, 16 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	16 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	John Webb (dr), Graham Collier (b), Harry Beckett (tp, flh), Bob Sydor (ts, as), Alan Wakeman (ts, ss), Geoff Castle (p)
Tracks	1 Theme 1 2 Theme 2 3 Theme 3 4 Theme 6 5 Theme 8

Harald Eckstein Quartet, 16 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	16 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Harald Eckstein (p), Jochen Voss (as, ss), Sep Plecher (b), Lothar Scharf (dr)
Tracks

Orchestre Henri Chaix, 16 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	16 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Henri Chaix (p), Jo Gagliardi (tp), Roger Zufferey (as), Michel Pilet (ts, cl), Alain Du Bois (b), Romano Cavicchiolo (dr)
Tracks

Ahmad Jamal, 17 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	17 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Ahmad Jamal (p), Jamil Sulieman (b), Frank Gant (dr)
Tracks	1 Bogota 2 Manhattan Reflections 3 Extensions 4 Effendi 5 Poinciana 6 Dolphin Dance

Dharma Quintet, 17 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	17 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Gérard Coppéré (ts, ss, fl), Jean-François Sicard (as, ts, fl, bc), Patricio Villaroel (p, el-p), Michel Gladieux (b), Jacques Mahieux (dr)
Tracks	1 Unknown title 2 Unknown title 3 Unknown title

Placebo, 17 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	17 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Richard Rousselet (bugle), Marc Moulin (p), Freddy Rottier (dr), Alex Scorier (saxes, fl), Johnny Dover (saxes, cl), Nicolas Kletchkovsky (b)
Tracks

Quintette de Jazz d'Yvan Landry, 17 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	17 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Yvan Landry (vb), Armas Maiste (p), Richard Ring (g), Donald Habib (b), Roger Simard (dr)
Tracks

Chico Hamilton, 18 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	18 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Chico Hamilton ()
Tracks

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, 18 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	18 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson ()
Tracks	1 Straight No Chaser 2 Cleanhead Blues 3 You Can't Make Love Alone 4 I Had A Dream 5 Person To Person

Gato Barbieri, 18 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	18 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Gato Barbieri ()
Tracks	1 Carnavalito 2 Brasil 3 Mi Buenos Aires Querido 4 El Pampero 5 El Arriero

Harold Alexander, 18 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	18 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Harold "Jazzbo" Alexander ()
Tracks	1 Summertime 2 Watermelon Man 3 Unknown title 4 High Heel Sneakers

Larry Coryell, 18 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	18 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Larry Coryell ()
Tracks	1 Souls Dirge 2 Destruction's Rod 3 All My Love's Laughter 4 Stones 5 Further Explorations For Albert Stinson

Leon Thomas, 18 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Oliver Nelson With The Festival Big Band, 18 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	18 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Oliver Nelson ()
Tracks	1 Stolen Moments 2 Black, Brown And Beautiful 3 Blues And The Abstract Truth 4 Swiss Suite - Part 1 5 Swiss Suite - Part 2 6 Swiss Suite - Part 3 7 Swiss Suite - Part 4

Gary Burton, 19 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	19 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Gary Burton (), Sam Brown (), Bill Goodwin (), Tony Levin ()
Tracks	1 Ruby Delight 2 Fleetfoot Tail Wind 3 1. Moonchild, 2. In Your Quiet Place 4 1. Green Mountains, 2. Arise, Her Eyes 5 Sweet Rain 6 Grow Your Own 7 The Sunset Bell 8 Chega De Saudade

JPJ Quartet, 19 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	19 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Oliver Jackson (dr), Budd Johnson (saxes), Dill Jones (p), Bill Pemberton (b)
Tracks	1 Montreux 1971 2 I'll Be Seeing You 3 Contrast In Blue 4 The Best Things In Life Are Free 5 Tribulations 6 West Of The Wind 7 Oliver's Twist 8 Down By The Riverside 9 Improvisation

Mongo Santamaria, 19 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	19 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Armando Peraza (cong, bongo), Mongo Santamaria (conga), Carter Jefferson (ts, fl), Ray Maldonado (tp, cowbell), Roger Glenn (fl, vb), Eddie Martinez (p), Edward Rivera (el-b), Steve Berrios (dr, timbales)
Tracks	1 Another Road 2 Come Candela 3 I Want To Know 4 Sacco 5 Watermelon Man 6 Fatback Yaya 7 Get The Money

Roberta Flack, 19 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	19 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Roberta Flack (p, voc)
Tracks	1 To Love Somebody 2 Ain't No Mountain High Enough 3 I Never Dreamed You Leave In Summer 4 Let It Be Me 5 The Children 6 God Bless The Child 7 Unknown title 8 Bridge Over Troubled Waters 9 Sunday And Sister Jones 10 You've Got A Friend 11 Reverend Lee

Hampton Hawes, 20 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	20 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Leroy Vinnegar (b), Hampton Hawes (p), Donald "specs" Bailey (dr)
Tracks	1 This Gal Of Mine 2 Hine's Guide 3 The Theme 3 4 This Guy's In Love With You

Paul Bley, 20 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	20 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Paul Bley ()
Tracks	1 Improvisie 2 Mr. Joy

Roy Ayers Ubiquity, 20 June 1971, Casino Kursaal

Date	20 June 1971
Venue	Casino Kursaal
Line-up	Roy Ayers (vb), Harry Whitaker (el-p), Clint Houston (b), Al Mouzon (dr)
Tracks	1 Daddy Bug 2 In A Silent Way 3 Move To Groove 4 Thoughts 5 Sketches In Red, Yellow, Brown, Black And White 6 He Gives Us All His Love 7 Your Cup Of Tea 8 Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head