Claude Nobs, the founder of the Montreaux jazz festival, has died at the age of 76.

He had spent several weeks in a coma following a skiing accident.

A music lover and harmonica player himself, Nobs launched the eminent music event in 1967 while working at the Montreaux tourism office.

Since then the festival has attracted a galaxy of musical stars to the Swiss resort.

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