Love Supreme Saturday
Chaka Khan
Main Stage, 9.30pm
ORIGINALLY the frontwoman of 1970s funk band Rufus, Chaka Khan built a hugely successful solo career in the 1980s with the help of producer Quincy Jones, Prince, who penned her first hit I Feel For You, and her signature stuttering introduction.
Jason Moran Fats Waller Dance Party
Big Top, 10.15pm
FOLLOWING on from his 2014 release All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller, the composer of the soundtrack to Oscar-winner Selma takes the music of the legendary jazz entertainer on the road.
Larry Graham And Graham Central Station
Main Stage, 7.30pm
THE Sly And The Family Stone bassist credited with the creation of the slap-bass technique (and consequently many terrible 1980s records) brings his Grand Central Station band to Love Supreme marking more than 40 years since their first album together.
GoGo Penguin
The Arena, 7.15pm
FRESH from a stunning set at this year’s Brighton Festival the Mercury Music Prize-nominated Manchester trio continue to break the boundaries between jazz, rock and post-rock armed with little more than a piano, double bass and drum kit.
Rebecca Ferguson
Main Stage, 5.45pm
REBECCA Ferguson has come a long way from being runner-up on the 2010 series of television talent show The X Factor. Following her million-selling debut Heaven, Ferguson has turned her attention to Billie Holiday and big band favourites on third album Lady Sings The Blues.
Neneh Cherry
Main Stage, 4pm
FORMER Rip Rig And Panic singer and 1980s chart star Neneh Cherry returned to the music scene after a 16-year gap with her fourth solo album Blank Project.
Omar
Main Stage, 2.15pm
HOVE’S own Omar Lyefook is still best known for the classic single There’s Nothing Like This, but he has been consistently releasing new soulful material over the last two decades, most recently on the album The Man.
Jazz Lounge
Universal Music’s jazz labels – including Blue Note, Verve and Impulse! – have come together for two days of exclusive Q and As and film screenings connected to this year’s festival. Look out for appearances by Terence Blanchard, GoGo Penguin and Jason Moran, screenings of new films about Snarky Puppy and Robert Glasper and a playback of the lost sessions from John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.
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