there are three great historical world-class jazz promoters whose paths i have been fortunate to have crossed: George Wein of the Newport Jazz Festivals, the late Norman Granz of Jazz At The Philharmonics, and the recently passed CLAUDE NOBS the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
not too far from Montreux another Swiss musical giant, GEORGE GRUNTZ, left us.
Granz’s fame began in a big town, San Francisco. but Wein & Nobs took their wares to swank sleepy villages and made them more famous than the towns themselves.
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