Love Supreme Jazz Fest adds Dhafer Youssef, Roni Kaspi, James Brandon Lewis, Jacqui Dankworth, and many more to 2024 line-up

The next wave of names for this summer’s Love Supreme Jazz Festival, which runs from 5 to 7 July at Glynde Place in East Sussex, with more international jazz, soul and funk stars added to the bill.

The latest additions include seminal acid jazz outfit Galliano, boundary-pushing young drummer - and member of bassist 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’s group featuring US bass star Kyle Eastwood, powerful British soul-jazz singer Alice Russell, fiery fast rising US saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, alt.jazz singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor, the soul-stirring singer (and one third of Motown Records’ famed group Blaze) Josh Milan, and dynamic South London singer-songwriter Joel Culpepper.

Also included in the latest round of additions are 100-million-selling Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Dionne Warwick; 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.

Breakout vocal star Olivia Dean, whose whirlwind last 12 months have included  three Brit Award nominations, being named as a BBC Music Introducing Artist Of The Year and releasing a Mercury-nominated debut album, takes top billing on the Saturday night for her first festival headline show, on the, while 10-time Grammy-winning vocal diva Chaka Khan, who is touring in celebration of a milestone 50 years in music and headlines the Sunday night.

These names join those already announced and how include multi-award-winning US vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, revered 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 piano sensation 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 80^th birthday.

The wider headliners also include 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.
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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 Eastwoo\
James Brandon Lewis
Rosie Frater-Taylor
Natalie Williams Soul Family
Olatuja
Bricknasty
Konyikeh
Jamie Leeming
Jon Regen
Roni Kaspi
Norman Willmore

Additional offerings this year will include a wellness and yoga area, a host of activities aimed at children, the Supremium area, which will offer a range of premium benefits plus the opportunity to watch exclusive artist performances, and the Jazz Lounge, which will present a range of artist interviews, talks, panel discussions, breakfast news reviews and film screenings. The festival will also see the return of an expanded Bands & Voices area, which presents cabaret, spoken word and swing dance lessons, and nestled away in the woods the Blue In Green area presents live music and DJs late into the night.

For full details and tickets visit lovesupremefestival.com