The Love Supreme Jazz Festival – Europe’s biggest greenfield jazz festival – has today announced a new wave of artists set to perform at this year’s edition, which returns to Glynde Place, East Sussex from Friday July 4th to Sunday July 6th.
Leading the new announcement is the musical phenomenon and Quincy Jones’ protégé Jacob Collier who is confirmed as the festival’s Saturday headliner, nine years after he dazzled the crowd with his incredible set on the Arena stage. The six-time Grammy-winner’s boundless creativity and electrifying live performances have earned him a huge global following, and a sold-out concert at The O2 Arena in London at the end of last year received a raft of rave reviews including 5-stars from the Daily Telegraph (“Collier proved exactly why he’s been lauded as a musical prodigy”). Collier’s Love Supreme appearance will be his only UK festival date of the year and marks his first major festival headline show.
Performing on the main stage immediately before Collier on Saturday evening will be the visionary Philadelphia jam band The Roots. Famed for their heavily jazz-inflected hip-hop sound and an innovative use of live instrumentation, the rap group have served as the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since 2014, and continue to push boundaries with their dynamic performances. The band can now boast an Academy Award winner in their ranks following drummer Questlove’s win for his stupendous music documentary ‘Summer of Soul‘.
Also joining this year’s line-up, which already features the likes of Maxwell (his only UK show of the year), Smokey Robinson, En Vogue, Sampa The Great, Thee Sacred Souls, War, Durand Jones & The Indications, Arooj Aftab, Branford Marsalis, Jamila Woods, Stanley Clarke and Lakecia Benjamin amongst many others, are pioneering US vocalist José James, Brazilian icon Marcos Valle, legendary Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés, the genre-blurring US drummer Kassa Overall, psychedelic-R&B singer Ravyn Lenae, and star Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen.
A selection of artists from across the UK’s vibrant scene have also been announced including Mercury-nominated Scottish multi-instrumentalist corto.alto, British-Brazilian singer Liana Flores, hotly-tipped soul duo MRCY, British-Colombian R&B star Sasha Keable, the highly acclaimed, hook-driven Neil Cowley Trio, the powerhouse Daniel Casimir Big Band, rapper, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter & producer Jay Prince, virtuoso drummer Jake Long, bassist Rudi Creswick, rising star singer-bassist Amy Gadiaga, trumpeter Poppy Daniels, sextet Colectiva, funk outfit Atmosfear, Jamiroquai keyboardist Matt Johnson, and 80s disco-soul group Change, who had an international hit with The Glow Of Love featuring Luthor Vandross.
More acts will be announced in due course.
Love Supreme Festival takes place at Glynde Place, East Sussex from Friday 4th July to Sunday 6th July. Tickets are available here.
