- Title: SWITZERLAND: YOUSSOU N'DOUR AND JOE COCKER PERFORM AT THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL
- Date: 20th July 2002
- Summary: MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND (JULY 20, 2002) (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) MOUSSE T SAYING, "I was like, for this album I said seeing as I am a musician anyway, I said I want to do a couple of gigs with my live band and I did a couple of showcases in Hanover, Hamburg and Zurich and then since I know Laurie from the Montreux Jazz Festival, she said, come on, I'll invite you
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- Location: MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND
- Country: Switzerland
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Youssou N'Dour and Mousse T were just two of the names to join a star studded line up for the final night of the Montreux Jazz Festival, which was rounded off by the inimitable Joe Cocker.
Over two weeks of musical festivities came to a close on Saturday with the final day of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Some of the greatest names in the business - from all different styles of music - flocked to the picturesque town on the shore of Lake Leman to offer a wealth of aural delights.
Providing an African flavour to the main stage for the last night was Senegalese star Youssou N'Dour, who shot to mainstream fame with the single "7 Seconds" which he recorded with Nenah Cherry. He feels that such collaborations have helped to bring world music to an ever growing and increasingly appreciative audience.
"I think in the 80's people described the name World Music, music coming from different parts, and they just said it is interesting, but they didn't know really how to dance to music, how to feel it, and the more we, after people understood the diversity of rhythm and understood a lot of things because of a lot of collaborations between musicians from west and north, I think that helped the crowd, the public to understand."
On the second stage, which concentrated on club sounds, Mousse T served up a feast of jazz funk grooves from his new album Gourmet de Funk. Mousse T is a man of many talents, working as a DJ, producer an re-mixer as well as writing his own material which he has begun to perform live.
He is perhaps best known for the smash hit "Sex Bomb" which featured on Tom Jone's "Reload" album.
"It was really funny, because Mark, Tom's manager, who is his son as well, he asked me years ago if I would like to re-mix Tom's old stuff, and I was like, anytime, just call me, but it never happened, and then after Horny, my first success I was going to write my album, and then I wrote Sex Bomb for my album, but my wish partner for that track was Tom JOnes, so I called Mark and said can you hook it up and play it to Tom.
Tom loved it and I went to London and we recorded it together and had a really great time and the day after he called me up and said do you mind giving me the song for my album? I was like, I am honoured, please. So for me it was great because I wrote the song and produced the song, it is a part of music history now, I am very happy about that."
Joe Cocker rounded things up and sent the crowds away happy with a mixture of songs from his new album, Respect Yourself, and his famed interpretations of classic hits such as "Love Lift Us Up" and "Unchain My Heart".
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