Jazz breaking news: Courtney Pine, Gregory Porter, and Portico Quartet added Jazz FM Love Supreme Festival bill
Monday, February 11, 2013
More names have just been confirmed for the Jazz FM Love Supreme Jazz Festival, to be held at Glynde Place, East Sussex from 5-7 July, and now include vocal sensation Gregory Porter (pictured left), top UK saxophonist Courtney Pine and the increasingly electronica-edged Portico Quartet.
They join Grammy–winner Robert Glasper and his Experiment band, which won the Best R&B Album award at the Grammys last night in Los Angeles for his vocal-led Black Radio album. Other recent additions to the bill include trip-hop jazz vocalist Andreya Triana, exciting US jam band Snarky Puppy as well as US heavyweights the Marcus Miller band and the Branford Marsalis Quartet, alongside UK headliners Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Neil Cowley Trio, Soweto Kinch, Zara McFarlane and Phantom Limb with further names to be announced.
The first green field jazz festival in years, Love Supreme will have four stages (a main stage, a unique green-field festival floored and seated Jazz big top, a ‘Discovery’ stage and a dance tent) which organisers hope “will provide a diverse repertoire to engage the most serious jazz fan and general music lovers alike.” Differing from other UK city based jazz festivals, just one ticket to the Love Supreme Jazz Festival will give fans access to all of the music provided on all four stages: over 40 acts, three days, for one price. The event will feature international food stalls, family activities, camping and a wide range of core, crossover and cutting edge jazz artists to compliment the main stage headliners.
For more info go to www.lovesupremefestival.com