Braving one of the wettest summers on record, the Festival equaled attendance records and initiated or developed a whole roster of events and activities: the Montreux Jazz Café, the Festival Off, four musical lake cruises, as many musical train trips, workshops, acoustic concerts, the Piano Jazz Solo competition (second edition), the Swiss Jazz Musician competition (new), the extension of quayside activities right into the center of town and, finally, the new "Village Fribourgeois" established under the magnificent Covered Market. In the main festival venues, meanwhile, new highlights were added to the festival's collective memory. In the Auditorium Stravinski: the twentieth anniversary of Huey Lewis & The News, the revelation of great new soul vocalists (Macy Gray, Angie Stone), the tribute to Serge Gainsbourg, B.B. King's seventy-fifth birthday, Suzanne Vega's intimate poetry, D'Angelo's breathtaking show, the grandeur of Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette Trio, the summit meeting of George Benson and Diana Krall, Lionel Richie's irresistible charm, the magic fingers of pianist Brad Mehldau and the uncompromising sound of rock legends Deep Purple. The Miles Davis Hall offered a grand tour of musical styles from around the planet: reggae, fado, flamenco, latino beats, hip hop, various jazz tendencies, rock, drum'n'bass, funk, the wide and protean universe of electronic music and so on. And we should also mention the names of a number of significant or emerging talents such as St Germain, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Courtney Pine, Mos Def, Everything But The Girl, Keziah Jones, Nils Petter Molvær, Laurence Revey, Les Négresses Vertes or Gilles Peterson.