J.C. Newman Introduces LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collector’s Edition

J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is introducing the LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collector’s 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’s oldest family-owned premium cigar maker and the LeRoy 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. Continuing the tradition from previous years, all profits will be donated to support arts education in public schools.  

“This year’s edition features LeRoy’s painting, ‘Jazz Horns,’ a beautiful image depicting the spontaneous energy and sounds of jazz,” said Drew Newman, fourth-generation owner of J.C. Newman. “We chose this image because of the return of our annual trade show to New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.”

“Jazz was always fuel for LeRoy Neiman’s creativity,” said Tara Zabor, LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation Executive Director. “LeRoy 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 Jazz 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.”

LeRoy Neiman Collector’s Edition cigars are handcrafted at J.C. Newman’s historic El Reloj cigar factory in Tampa, Florida. The 2025 edition is a 6 1/4” x 52 Torpedo rolled with a Havana Rosado wrapper, a Florida Sun Grown binder, and a blend of aged filler tobaccos from Latin America.  This year’s 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.