Festivals · First held 1967
Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux, Switzerland
- Location
- Montreux
- First held
- 1967
- Official website
- montreuxjazzfestival.com ↗
Montreux Jazz Festival is a jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland, first held in 1967.
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. Initiator and head organizer Claude Nobs brought an array of artists to Montreux. Mathieu Jaton has organised the festival since Nobs' death in 2013.
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