Herbie Hancock + Terrace Martin, Avishai Cohen and Quincy Jones provide the fireworks at the 50th Montreux Jazz Festival

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Thomas Rees reflects on a festival made in the image of its eccentric and uncompromising founder and on sets from Avishai Cohen, Chico Freeman and Herbie Hancock, with Kendrick Lamar-collaborator Terrace Martin I never met Claude Nobs, the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival.

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