Chaka Khan and Van Morrison will headline the third Love Supreme Jazz Festival in July.

They are among the first wave of acts announced for the festival at Glynde Place, near Lewes, which runs from Friday, July 3, to Sunday, July 5, is billed as the only major greenfield jazz festival in the country.

The ten-time Grammy winner Khan, famous for her chart-topping interpretation of Prince’s I Feel For You and top ten hit Ain’t Nobody, will headline the Saturday night, while Belfast’s own soulman will close the festival on the Sunday.

More big names playing the three-day event include original You Got The Love singer Candi Staton, legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker, Grammy Award-winning US jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela.

A selection of the best in US jazz are also crossing the pond to play the festival, including the UK debut of trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s new electric band E-Collective, saxophonist Joshua Redman joining forces with the trio The Bad Plus, Blue Note-signed trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and up-and-coming acts soul singer Jarrod Lawson, trumpeter Theo Croker and LA jazz-rockers Kneebody.

Keeping up the British end will be the Mercury Music Prize-nominated GoGo Penguin, Leeds seven-piece Submotion Orchestra, Brighton-based soul and blues singer Rag ‘N’ Bone Man, and Snarky Puppy pianist Bill Laurance, with Partisans, Joe Stilgoe, Get The Blessing, Christine Tobin, Dylan Howe’s Subterraneans, Elliot Galvin, Gabby Young And Other Animals, Blue-Eyed Hawk, Shiver and the Hackney Colliery Band also on the bill.

Plus jetting in from Australia are experimental soul group Hiatus Kaiyote and the jazz-flavoured quartet The Vampires.

“Love Supreme is now firmly on the map as one of Europe’s top outdoor music festivals and offers a unique experience that you will struggle to find anywhere else in the UK," says festival director Ciro Romano.

“To be able to secure artists of the stature of Van Morrison and Chaka Khan, alongside such a broad cross section of globally revered acts from the worlds of jazz, funk, soul and R&B, is testament to how far we’ve come in just three years.”

Day tickets for the festival start at £55, or £110 for the full weekend.

For more information visit www.lovesupremefestival.com