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The weekslong Swiss music celebration, Montreux Jazz Festival, revealed a typically diverse lineup of artists on Thursday for its 59th annual gathering, which will take place from July 4 – 19 in the titular city. Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Diana Ross, Benson Boone, Brandi Carlile, J Balvin, Noah Kahan, Lionel Richie, Santana, Pulp, Alanis Morissette, the Black Keys, Jamie Xx, Beth Gibbons, Raye, Finneas, and Shaboozey, among several others, will all perform. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon Cet. Full details are on the event’s website.

The fest will also feature several special sets.

For two weeks every summer in Switzerland, the shores of Lake Geneva metamorphosize into a stage for the Montreux Jazz Festival. Since its inception in 1967 by founder Claude Nobs, the likes of Etta James, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, James Brown, Leonard Cohen, and Elton John have gathered to perform at the annual fever dream of music.

While the festival at first hosted exclusively jazz artists, it began to broaden its horizons in the Seventies and flourished as...

Oliver Murray, director of They All Came Out To Montreux (on Claude Nobs’ s Montreux Jazz Festival), Ronnie’s (on Ronnie Scott’s), and The Quiet One (on Bill Wyman) with music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze: “It’s fantastic to hear you make the connections because sometimes I do that almost just for myself.”

They All Came Out To Montreux (a highlight of the 23rd edition of the Tribeca Film Festival), Oliver Murray’s fantastic tribute to Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs is hailed by music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman for the documentary’s composition of musical greatness with the backstory on this one-of-a-kind creation in Montreux.

Kim Gordon in Sonic Youth at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Kim Gordon (on her Collective tour), this past Thursday, June 13, 2024 had a Capital One City...

Tribeca Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer with Anne-Katrin Titze on Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Trish Dalton’s .Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge: “It’s great! It’s about fashion but not only. It’s super New York based.”

They All Came Out To Montreux, Oliver Murray’s fantastic tribute to Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs; Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil's Bath (Des Teufels Bad) starring Anja Plaschg (who is also the composer as Soap&Skin), shot by Martin Gschlacht (Silver Bear winner in the 2024 Berlin Film Festival); Dana Flor’s Ani Difranco film, 1-800-on-her-own; David Hinton’s Made In England: The Films Of Powell & Pressburger with Martin Scorsese as our guide; Vinko Tomicic’s The...

Geneva (AP) — Claude Nobs, the founder and general manager of the Montreux Jazz Festival, whose passion for music and artistry introduced generations of legendary musicians to international audiences on the Swiss stage, has died. He was 76. The Jazz Festival said Nobs, a native of Montreux, died Thursday after sustaining injuries from a fall while cross-country skiing in nearby Caux-sur-Montreux on Christmas Eve. He was taken to the hospital and fell into a coma from which he never recovered. Nobs worked his way from being a chef and director of Montreux's tourism office, where he organized charity concerts, to overseeing...

Hosted By Actor/Director Thomas Jane, Festival Honors 3D Film And Music Legend Claude Nobs With Special Closing Night Live Performance By Quincy Jones And The Global Gumbo Allstars

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