{"id":70962,"date":"2025-04-08T16:26:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=70962"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:26:40","slug":"j-c-newman-introduces-leroy-neiman-2025-collectors-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/j-c-newman-introduces-leroy-neiman-2025-collectors-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"J.C. Newman Introduces\u00a0LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collector\u2019s Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is introducing the LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collector\u2019s Edition cigars at the Premium Cigar Association trade show this weekend (April 11-14, 2025) in New Orleans. This is the third year that America\u2019s oldest family-owned premium cigar maker and the\u00a0LeRoy Neiman and the Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation have collaborated to create a luxury, handcrafted cigar honoring the late, iconic, cigar-smoking American artist, LeRoy Neiman.\u00a0Continuing the tradition from previous years, all profits will be donated to support arts education in public schools.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s edition features LeRoy\u2019s painting, \u2018Jazz Horns,\u2019 a beautiful image depicting the spontaneous energy and sounds of jazz,\u201d said\u00a0Drew Newman, fourth-generation owner of J.C. Newman. \u201cWe chose this image because of the return of our annual trade show to New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cJazz was always fuel for LeRoy Neiman\u2019s creativity,\u201d said\u00a0Tara\u00a0Zabor, LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation Executive Director. \u201cLeRoy spent many nights in clubs drawing live performances and hobnobbing with the greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. He had a passion for the improvisation unique to the genre which he mimicked in his own painting practice. Down the hall from his New York City studio, you could frequently hear jazz standards belting out of the speaker while the aromas of a freshly lit cigar wafted throughout the space. In\u00a0Jazz Horns, one can sense we are in the midst of peak harmonization in the brass section or in full swing amid the musicians, where LeRoy felt right at home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

LeRoy Neiman Collector\u2019s Edition cigars are handcrafted at J.C. Newman\u2019s historic El Reloj cigar factory in Tampa, Florida. The 2025\u00a0edition\u00a0is a 6 1\/4\u201d x 52 Torpedo rolled with a Havana Rosado wrapper, a Florida Sun Grown binder, and a blend of aged filler tobaccos from Latin America.\u00a0 This year\u2019s edition is limited to 15,000 cigars, packed in 750 cabinets of 20 cigars with a suggested retail price of $22 per cigar. J.C. Newman is shipping these cigars in the fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Inside each cabinet is an authentic lithograph of \u201cJazz Horns.\u201d The image is also wrapped around each cigar. The bottom of each cabinet includes a surprise print of Neiman\u2019s paint-splattered New York City studio floor. All of the packaging was printed by Vrijdag Premium Printing in Holland.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cWe’ve placed this lithograph inside our cigar cabinets to welcome aficionados into LeRoy’s cherished world,\u201d added Zabor. \u201cEvery time someone opens the cabinet, they’re getting not just a great cigar, but a piece of LeRoy’s legacy. It’s our way of honoring his life and sharing the joy that he put into every brushstroke.“<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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J.C. Newman and the Foundation will be donating all profits from this collaboration to support arts education in Tampa\u2019s public schools, including those surrounding the El Reloj cigar factory.<\/span><\/p>\n

„Every cigar from the LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collector\u2019s Edition directly supports our ongoing mission at the Foundation,“ noted\u00a0Tara\u00a0Zabor. „The profits help us improve arts education in local public schools, keeping LeRoy’s passion for nurturing creativity alive and thriving among the next generation of artists.\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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