Word: montreux
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Simmons said having Leonard Bernstein compose and teach a song for the Krokodiloes in his Manhattan apartment during the early 1980s was one of the most memorable moments of his career. Another high point for Simmons was performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland...
...much as $93 million and that part of the money was used to support a posh life-style for Jouret and Di Mambro and to buy houses in Western Europe and Canada. Last week at least five more Temple properties were discovered. Two of them -- an apartment near Montreux, Switzerland, and a villa near Avignon, France -- had been rigged to explode in flames...
Roney's real breakthrough, though, didn't come until 1991, when he played alongside the ailing Davis onstage at Montreux, Switzerland. Davis was too weak to play entire solos, so Roney would finish them for him. Davis died a few months later, and Roney's performance became legendary. Misterios, Davis- like in its jazz-pop blend, is dedicated to the legend. "He taught me to treat every note like a precious emotion," says Roney. Listening to Misterios, you know he learned his lessons well...
...Senior Catherine Crisera, a captain of the women's basketball team, is relaxing in her fifth floor room in Eliot's Hentry. The gold dome of Kirkland House stands sentinel outside the window, as a few thin rays are permitted to pass. Miles Davis and Quincy jam live at Montreux on the CD player...
...late '70s, Davis' pal Quincy Jones began urging him to revisit the Evans sessions, but for 15 years Davis declined. Then, at age 65, perhaps sensing that his time was running out, he relented. At the famous jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland, Jones assembled the original Evans scores and led the orchestra with Davis on solo. The result, Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux, is Davis' final live album. Recorded only weeks before he died, it is an excruciatingly openhearted struggle by a master defiantly raging against the dying of the light...