Claude Nobs , the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival , dies after skiing accident . The official festival website also added its condolences : `` You always had a sparkle in your eyes whenever you dealt with people . Nobs , who had been in a coma after a fall , died in hospital in Lausanne - Swiss media . Nobs co-founded jazz festival in small Swiss town in 1967 . Comment:
Claude Nobs , the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival , dies after skiing accident . Nobs , who had been in a coma after a fall , died in hospital in Lausanne - Swiss media . Nobs co-founded jazz festival in small Swiss town in 1967 . Comment: