Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 Live at Montreux Jazz Festival is a live album by rock guitarist Carlos Santana and jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter that was released on March 27, 2007. The album is a record of their performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 14, 1988. Santana and Shorter played together on "This Is This!" (1986), the final album by Weather Report, though Shorter left halfway through recording the album. Two years later he played at the jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland, with musicians that were mostly from Santana's band:
Nice Jazz Festival Nice Jazz Festival The Nice Jazz Festival, held annually since 1948 in Nice, on the French Riviera, is "the first jazz festival of international significance." At the inaugural festival, Louis Armstrong and his All Stars were the headliners. Frommer's calls it "the biggest, flashiest, and most prestigious jazz festival in Europe." Over the years, many artists, such as Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Helen Humes, Herbie Hancock, and Miles Davis, regularly appeared at the festival. After 1994, it saw a change of emphasis, with more world music and pop. But the festival's newest organizer, Vivian Sicnasi, has