Claude Nobs , the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival , dies after an accident . Michel , 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 . He made Montreux Jazz Festival festival amazing . Tributes pour in from Chic star Nile Rodgers , George Clinton and Queen singer Brian May .
Claude Nobs , the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival , dies after an accident . Michel , 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 . Tributes pour in from Chic star Nile Rodgers , George Clinton and Queen singer Brian May .