FEEL THE LOVE SUPREME

Europe’s largest outdoor jazz festival is coming back! The Love Supreme Jazz Festival returns to the idyllic surroundings of East Sussex’s Glynde Place in East Sussex this July, running from the 5th to the 7th of the month.

Included in the list of newly announced acts is 2024 breakout star Olivia Dean, one of the UK music scene’s hottest prospects who, following a whirlwind 12 months in which she was nominated for three Brit Awards including Artist Of The Year, was named as a BBC Music Introducing Artist Of The Year and released a Mercury-nominated debut album, takes top billing on the Saturday night and will perform her first festival headline show. Dean will line up alongside 10-time Grammy-winning Chaka Khan, who is touring in celebration of a milestone 50 years in music and headlines the Sunday night.

Also included in the latest round of additions are 100 million-selling Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Dionne Warwick, seminal acid jazz outfit Galliano, South London singer-songwriter Joel Culpepper, boundary-pushing young drummer – and member of Avishai Cohen’s band – Roni Kaspi, vocalist Alicia Olatuja and bassist Michael Olatuja’s afrobeat-inflected duo Olatuja, Tunisian singer and oud master Dhafer Youssef, UK pianist Andrew McCormack featuring Kyle Eastwood, powerful British soul singer Alice Russell, fiery US saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, alternative singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor, the soul-stirring singer (and one third of Motown Records’ famed group Blaze) Josh Milan, genre-spanning Irish five-piece Bricknasty, one of the UK’s most esteemed jazz singers Jacqui Dankworth, and following her hugely acclaimed show in London last month (“one of rap’s modern revolutionaries” NME), the US rapper and producer Noname.

The newly announced names join a selection of the world’s most revered contemporary jazz acts on the line-up including multi-award-winning US vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, visionary multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello, who recently received a Grammy for her Blue Note Records debut The Omnichord Real Book, Mercury-nominated Scottish pianist and Jazz FM Instrumentalist of the Year Fergus McCreadie, Japanese pianist Hiromi with her Sonicwonder project, Blue Note drummer Johnathan Blake, the 8-time Grammy-winning US bassist Christian McBride, and “fusion’s greatest drummer” Billy Cobham, who will be performing his Time Machine project shortly after celebrating his 80th birthday.

Also on the bill this year are the 70 million-selling US funk outfit Kool & The Gang, whose string of international hit singles includes Ladies Night, Celebration, Jungle Boogie and Get Down On It, powerhouse UK vocalist Joss Stone, Brazilian pianist-composer, and bandleader Sergio Mendes, British R&B star Mahalia, who headlines on the Friday evening, US psychedelic soul band Black Pumas, who were nominated for ‘Best New Artist’ at the 2020 Grammys, the trailblazing, inspirational husband and wife vocal duo The War & Treaty, Grammy-winning blues sensation Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, and London-based Australian soul singer Jordan Rakei, whose much anticipated new album is due out on Decca Records in 2024 ahead of a sold-out show at The Royal Albert Hall.

Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2024 line-up to date (more acts to be announced):

Chaka Khan (Celebrating 50 Years In Music)

Olivia Dean (Debut Festival Headline Performance)

Dionne Warwick

Jordan Rakei

Mahalia

Black Pumas

Noname

Joss Stone

Kool & The Gang

Sérgio Mendes

Hiromi

Billy Cobham’s Time Machine

Galliano

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram

Meshell Ndegeocello

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Dhafer Youssef

Christian McBride

Alice Russell

The War and Treaty

Balimaya Project

Josh Milan

Johnathan Blake

Fergus McCreadie

Joel Culpepper

Jacqui Dankworth

Amie Blu

Andrew McCormack feat. Kyle Eastwood

James Brandon Lewis

Rosie Frater-Taylor

Natalie Williams Soul Family

Olatuja

Bricknasty

Konyikeh

Jamie Leeming

Jon Regen

Roni Kaspi

Norman Willmore

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