When Prince comes to the Montreux Jazz Festival all bets are off On his third visit to the Swiss Riviera for the 47th edition of the event he was given carte blanche over three consecutive soldout evenings and appeared determined to cover as many bases as possible The first concert saw the purple yoda attack new material and old classics A spur of the moment performer who can turn on a dime literally and metaphorically he covered James Brown Curtis Mayfield Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan before delivering an unscheduled second encore of Purple Rain in honor of the late Claude Nobs