Jacob Collier, The Roots, Daniel Casimir Big Band and more added to Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2025 headliners

This year’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival, which runs from 4 to 6 July at Glynde Place, East Sussex, has announced six-time Grammy winning singer and virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier will headline the mainstage on Saturday 5 July. Collier studied piano on the Royal Academy of Music’s jazz course and became a viral video sensation 13 years ago with his daring reworkings of classics by Stevie Wonder and George Gershwin, with early fans including Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock. He’s since gone on to release five albums and build a global following, notably in the US, with his most recent world tour culminating in a sold-out concert at The O2 Arena in London in December last year, which received rave reviews. This will be Collier’s only UK festival show this year.

Also on the main stage, immediately before Collier, will be a rare festival show from renowned Philadelphia jam band The Roots (pictured above). Heavily influenced by jazz (famously appearing at Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown at the Southbank in 2009) the band perform their high intensity take on hip-hop with a full band.

Also announced are a strong selection of artists from across the UK’s vibrant scene which include Mercury-nominated Scottish fusioneers corto.alto, British-Brazilian singer Liana Flores, hotly-tipped soul duo MRCY, British-Colombian R&B star Sasha Keable, the propulsive piano-driven Neil Cowley Trio. Further names include a welcome appearance by the bass-powered 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, latin-jazz 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.

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 among 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. Jazzwise is festival media partner.

For the full line-up so far and tickets visit lovesupremefestival.com