Alice Cooper, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello, Tori Amos, Lisa
Stansfield and Crosby Stills & Nash are among the stars expected to appear at the, erm, Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in Jul. In fact, contemporary music is heavily represented, with Garbage, Velvet Revolver, Kasabian, **Queens of the Stone
Age, Lauryn Hill and Craig David** also scheduled to perform gigs at the 39th annual event.
Soul and Blues will be featured with performances from BB King and
Solomon Burke, and a tribute to the Stax soul label with **Isaac
Hayes and Booker T & The MGs. Ibrahim Ferrer will represent the Latin element. Seventy nine year old pianist Oscar Peterson** is the biggest name from the jazz world, but festival bosses don't seem too concerned about the plethora of other genres represented at the event. A spokesman told reporters: "The jazz festival hasn't been a jazz festival for many, many years.
It covers a very, very broad musical spectrum."