Line up announced for 64th edition of Jazz A Juan,  Juan-les-Pins, France, 10th to 20th July 2025.

Sunday, March 30, 2025

The line up has been announced for the 2025 Jazz A Juan Festival. Performers include Herbie Hancock, Jamie Cullum, Dianne Reeves, Gregory Porter, Ibrahim Maalouf, Robert Plant ,Emile Londonien.

Guest contributor Colin May sets the scene;

64th Jazz A Juan

The line up has been announced for this year’s Jazz A Juan. The 64th edition will take place from 10th to 20th July. Herbie Hancock, Jamie Cullum, Dianne Reeves, Gregory Porter and Ibrahim Maalouf are among those scheduled to appear. It will be Herbie Hancock’s 14th appearance at Juan-les-Pins but 13 of the 22 artists or 65 percent of the artists will be making their first appearance at the festival. Among those making their debut in the open air 2800 seat arena will be Robert Plant, and in what is high risk programming for a Jazz festival with a big venue to fill, Emile Londonien, a leading group of French new wave jazz whom I have just enjoyed seeing along the coast in Nice. Review here;
https://www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/leon-phal-quintet-emile-londonien-stockfish-nice-france-21-03-2025

In another welcome development, For the first time to my knowledge the programme launch included the latest iteration of the Jammin’ Summer Sessions, the free second stage, that hosts emerging groups several of which impressed at last November’s Jammin’ Juan jazz Market place . I am delighted that Obradovic -Tixier duo whose late night performance at an earlier edition of Jammin’ Juan was riveting, are among the line up. Their 2020 album ‘The Boiling Stories of a Smoking Kettle’ received a four- star review in Jazzwise and was an editor’s choice.
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/obradovic-tixier-duo-the-boiling-stories-of-a-smoking-kettle).

The full day -by -day programme for both venues is available via this link
https://jazzajuan.com/en/programme-jazz-a-juan-2025/