People's Artist of Azerbaijan, mugham singer Alim Gasimov has performed as part of the 48th Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, SIA reports.
The concerts of acclaimed Azerbaijani jazz pianist, Honorary Artist, winner of Montreux Jazz Festival in 2009 Isfar Sarabski, Honorary Artist Rashad Hashimov and American funk and soul jazz saxophonist Maceo Parker and Honorary Artist Natig Shirinov will also be arranged as part of the festival.
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan is an official partner of the Festival.
The Montreux Jazz Festival 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.
The Montreux Jazz Festival was founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs, Géo Voumard and René Langel with considerable help from Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün of Atlantic Records. The festival was first held at Montreux Casino. It lasted for three days and featured almost exclusively jazz artists. The highlights of this era were Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Evans, Soft Machine, Weather Report, The Fourth Way, Nina Simone, Jan Garbarek, and Ella Fitzgerald.
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