Jazz high-flyer Jamie Cullum thrilled the audience in Montreux on Saturday evening with a wild performance.
After an energetic start by the charismatic singer Lisa Simone (53), daughter of the legendary singer Nina Simone, the American band "Vintage Trouble" rocked the Auditorium Stravinski on Saturday evening. The American rhythm'n'blues band from Los Angeles around lead singer Ty Taylor was only founded in 2010, but has already toured as the support act for AC/DC, the Rolling Stones and Bon Jovi and put on a sensational concert on Saturday evening.
The singer Ty, bursting with energy, stormed into the middle of the audience several times during the performance, sang from the gallery in the Auditorium Stravinski like a priest and made the audience go wild. He also addressed the recent attacks on black citizens in Dallas and asked the entire hall to turn on the light on their cell phones and hold them in the air. He then sang "This can't be" and the whole hall sang along.
Power performance by jazz high-flyer Jamie Cullum
At around 11 a.m., festival director Mathieu Jaton hopped onto the stage in high spirits and shorts and announced the long-awaited jazz shooting star Jamie Cullum (36) from London. He lived up to his name as a wild jazz singer. Wearing blue sneakers, black jeans, a black T-shirt and a jazzy, black and white patterned, open short shirt, Cullum stormed the stage, banged on the piano keys and, as we know him to do, jumped on and off his piano several times. With "Love for sale", he set an almost gloomy tone in the first part of his power performance - he underlaid the jazz song by Cole Porter from 1930, which sounds harmless but is actually a song about a prostitute, with heavy trip-hop beats and reverb.
