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Montreux

/ mɔ̃trø /

noun

  1. a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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After releasing a series of standalone singles, he embarked on a 2025 summer tour playing European jazz festivals at Montreux and North Sea, and a North American tour bigger than his first.

Montreux was slightly less so and felt like a “one-man show,” while Lollapalooza and Outside Lands were stimulating.

They stayed with him through an eventful year that included a concert in Montreux, Switzerland, that ended with the venue engulfed in fire; Deep Purple memorialized the event in “Smoke on the Water.”

Kravitz continues his tour supporting “Blue Electric Light” with a sold-out show Tuesday at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and another show three days later in the Czech Republic.

A prolific performer and collaborator, it was McCann’s appearance at the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland with saxophonist Eddie Harris, and the ensuing live album “Swiss Movement,” that secured McCann’s international notoriety and his place in the jazz canon.

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