19 February 2020 | Author/Destination: European Free Trade Association | Rubric: General
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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. It is the second largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada’s
Montreal International Jazz Festival . The Montreux Jazz Festival was founded in 1967 by
Claude Nobs ,
Géo Voumard and René Langel with considerable help from
Ahmet and
Nesuhi Ertegün of
Atlantic Records . The festival was first held at
Montreux Casino . It lasted for three days and featured almost exclusively jazz artists. 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 .
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7 September 2011 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General
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View on Lake Geneva and France © Christian Perez
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Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population of 23,800 and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.
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