Latest Style Blog: Festivals: The Montreux Jazz Festival
The Montreux Jazz Festival, the second largest annual jazz festival in the world, is held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. Founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs, Geo Voumard and Rene Langel, it was first held at Montreux Casino in 1971. It lasted for three days and featured almost exclusively jazz artists, with highlights being Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald and Jack DeJohnette among others. Although it started with jazz, it gradually grew its boundaries in the 1970s and today represents artists of nearly every imaginable music style including blues, souls, and rock artists as well. Today the festival lasts about two weeks and has an audience of more than 200,000 people. This year its being held from June 28 to July 13.