The 6th jazzahead!-Škoda-Award this year goes to Claude Nobs, the mastermind and artistic director of the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival. On 29 April 2011 is the enterprising and visionary music managers in the Focke Wulf the Congress Center of Messe Bremen prestigious industry prize awarded and are thus able to signal that his work for more than four decades of rock, jazz and world music history assessed the.
And as a tribute of this magnitude, a special program suggests, have other things, the record producer and long-time colleague of Claude Nobs,Siggi Loch, as award presenter and pianist Michael Wollny and the Turkish ney Spezialsit Kudsi Erguner as an artist on the stage announced in to the ceremony of the 6th to give jazz ahead!-Škoda-Award extra flair.
From: Jazz Echo
Claude Nobs - a passionate jazz fan and a visionary. Founded the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967. His flair, enthusiasm and open-mindedness enabled the Festival to acquire a unique international dimension. After 44 Festivals, his enthusiasm remains the same.
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