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The line-up for the July 3-18 event also includes veterans
Santana, Herbie Hancock, Lionel Richie and Lenny Kravitz as well
as Grammy-winning newcomer Sam Smith, the organizers said.
Lady Gaga and Bennett team up on July 6 in Stravinski Auditorium
to perform tracks from their jazz album "Cheek to Cheek".
"It's a meeting of a crooner and Queen of Pop that really fits
Montreux. They'll be singing jazz standards," festival director
Mathieu Jaton told Reuters after the program was announced in
the Swiss city of Lausanne.
The 49th edition of one of Europe's most prestigious summer
festivals will be the second under Jaton, who succeeded the late
founder Claude Nobs.
"To have Caetano Veloso is quite rare, so having him is already
something special but together with Gilberto in duet is not
something you see every year," Jaton said.
Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock appear regularly but "not since
1979 have the two artists come together at Montreux, what better
in jazz today than to have them together," Jaton told a news
conference.
John Legend, fresh from picking up a Grammy for "Glory" in the
civil rights film "Selma" opens the festival on July 3. Mary J.
Blige and D'Angelo share the famed stage on July 8.
Smith, George Ezra and Sbtrkt are part of a "British invasion"
this year, all playing at the Montreux Jazz Lab venue, Jaton
said.
"Sam Smith has four Grammies which is tremendous, and the
location fits perfectly his music and period."British
multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt played keyboards, electric
guitar and drums at the unveiling, performing "The Love You're
Given" from his latest album "Synesthesiac" released this week.
Garratt is booked on July 10.
"I'm a one-man band, all I need is a drum on my back and cymbals
on my knees," Garratt, a 23-year-old Londoner sporting a red
beard and ponytail, told Reuters.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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