Love Supreme announces soul superstar Maxwell as first 2025 mainstage headliner
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
The triple-Grammy winner will return to the UK for the first time in nine years for his only UK show of the year to headline next summer’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival on Sunday 6 July
Love Supreme, Europe’s biggest greenfield jazz festival, is set to return to Glynde Place, East Sussex from 4 to 6 July 2025 with a bill packed with the biggest names in jazz, soul and funk.
The organisers have confirmed the first name to be announced is multi-platinum-selling neo-soul superstar Maxwell – the 13-time Grammy Award-nominee and triple-Grammy winner, whose debut album Urban Hang Suite propelled him to international fame in the late 1990s, will close the festival on the evening of Sunday 6 July for what will be his first UK appearance in nine years and only UK date of 2025.
Alongside the likes of Erykah Badu and D’Angelo, Brooklyn-born Maxwell played a pivotal role in the evolution of the neo-soul movement of the late ‘90s. His 1996 debut Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite earned multiple Grammy nominations, double platinum status and spawned the hit single 'Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder)'.
Platinum-selling albums Embrya (1998) and Now (2001) followed and in 2009 Maxwell’s BLACKsummers’night debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, earning him two Grammys including Best R&B Album, before latest album BLACKsummers’night earned a third Grammy, and cemented his status within the pantheon of all-time R&B greats.
The full programme will be announced in the coming months with the first jazz names to be confirmed in early November. Jazzwise is festival media partner.
For full details visit lovesupremefestival.com
