Serious Creative Producers appointed as programme consultants 

The new Love Supreme Jazz Festival, the UK’s first three day green-field Jazz Festival, has announced that it will be located at Glynde Place, East Sussex, a stunning location nearto the South Downs, 10 miles from Brighton, 60 miles from London and a few minutes from Glyndebourne.  This new, niche festival will take place on 5, 6, 7 July 2013 and is created in partnership by Neapolitan Music, Jazz FM and Ingenious  Media’s Entertainment VCT 1 and 2. Serious, producers of the London Jazz Festival and this Summer’s hugely successful BT River of Music, have been appointed as programme consultants. 

Ciro Romano, managing director ofNeapolitan Music, said:

“As soon as we visited Glynde we knew it was exactly the right setting for our new festival.   The otherworldy charm of the beautiful South Downs will provide the perfect backdrop to our event.  Francis Hampden, the estate owner, and his team have been fantastic to work with already and we plan to make Glynde our Festival home for many years to come.” 

Richard Wheatley, chief executive of Jazz FM, said:

“Jazz FM is delighted to be supporting the UK’s first ever green-field Jazz Festival, we are confident that it will be a warmly welcomed newcomer to the UK’s great Festival scene.  We are all delighted to be working with the highly experienced team at Serious, whose impressive track-record in programming jazz events will help us achieve our ambition that Love Supremebecomes known as one of Europe’s leading jazz festivals.” 

The Love Supreme Jazz Festival will feature a classic and contemporary bill programmed in association with international live music producers, Serious, appointed as programme consultants.   The line-up, with the first artistannouncement being made before the end of the year, will blend core and cutting edge jazz artists, crossover jazz musicians and also feature great artists from the worlds of soul, blues and funk.