The festival was originally held at the original Montreux Casino, which burned down in December 1971 during Frank Zappa's performance (as referenced in " Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple). Mathieu Jaton has organised the festival since Nobs' death in 2013. Initiator and head organizer Claude Nobs brought an array of artists to Montreux. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Moore, Weather Report, Don Ellis, Crossfire, Buddy Guy, Camarón de la Isla and Tomatito, Soft Machine, Chuck Berry, Peter Tosh, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Eric Clapton, Luther Allison, Bo Diddley, Stan Getz, Airto Moreira, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Ney Matogrosso, Charles Mingus, Etta James, Sonny Rollins, Son House, Count Basie, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Gilberto Gil, Ray Charles, James Booker, Hermeto Pascoal, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Rory Gallagher, Marianne Faithfull, Elis Regina, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Pasadena Roof Orchestra, New Order, Jaco Pastorius, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, Toto, Zucchero Fornaciari, André Geraissati, Korni Grupa, Jan Akkerman, Joe Satriani, Status Quo, Prince, and many more. Santana came to Montreux for the first time in 1970 Van Morrison played in 19.
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Towards the end of the decade, the festival expanded even more, including music from all continents (with an emphasis on Brazilian music) and lasting a full three weeks. In the 1970s, the festival began broadening its scope, including blues, soul, and rock artists for instance, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Canned Heat and many others. Today's festival lasts about two weeks and attracts an audience of more than 200,000 people.
Part of the festival's expansion was due to coproduction by Quincy Jones, who brought many international artists in the early 1990s. Jazz remains an important part of the festival. Originally a pure jazz festival, it opened up in the 1970s and today presents artists working in various styles of music. Montreux Jazz Festival 1983 poster designed by Keith Haring The highlights of this era were Charles Lloyd, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Evans, Soft Machine, Weather Report, The Fourth Way, Nina Simone, Jan Garbarek, and Ella Fitzgerald. It lasted for three days and featured almost exclusively jazz artists. The driving force is the tourism office under the direction of Raymond Jaussi. The festival was first held at Montreux Casino. The Montreux Jazz Festival opened on 18 June 1967 and was founded by Claude Nobs, Géo Voumard and René Langel with considerable help from Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun of Atlantic Records. It is the second-largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival. The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. JSTOR ( February 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Montreux Jazz Festival" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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