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In 2020, for the first time in its 40-year history the International Montreal Jazz Festival was cancelled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in what would have been its 41st edition. [10] In 2021, because of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, the 41st edition was postponed until autumn, reduced to 5 days, and limited to outdoor performances, while ...
Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( May 2019 ) This is a list of artists that have performed at the Montreux 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. It is the second-largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival. [1]
Montreux Jazz Festival takes place this summer across two weeks and multiple venues, with The Independent as the event’s exclusive global media partner
A fan watches The Vapors perform on the Sad Girls stage at Cruel World Festival at Pasadena's Rose Bowl, Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes over 2 million visitors (12.5% of whom are tourists) as well as 300 accredited journalists.
Nov. 27—It's time to make your plans for the 32nd annual Boscov's Berks Jazz Fest, scheduled for Friday, March 24, through Sunday, April 2, 2023. The festival's spectacular lineup of some of the ...
Bickert was known for popularizing the use of solid-body guitars, rare among jazz artists at that time, which produced a distinct and signature tone. Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, who moved to the UK in the 1950s, released a number of albums on ECM Records in the 70s and 80s. [17] Also recorded by ECM was Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley.