About LEILA

Django Reinhardt Prize French Jazz Academy

Best Band Leader in the Best of 2023 Jazzmag & JazzNews 

Top Jazz Mezzo TV

Choc Jazzmag

Indispensable JazzNews

Multi-awarded pianist and composer Leïla OLIVESI is the new French star winner of the Django Reinhardt Prize from the French Jazz Academy.

She's also a specialist of Duke Ellington  and she won the Ellington composer Award. She is the headliner pianist of the upcoming 70th anniversary of JazzMag at Théâtre du Châtelet. She also performed solo at the last Festival Pianomania among the greatest pianists : Giovani Mirabassi, Laurent De Wilde. Very gifted and unanimely praised by the press and the public, she's touring worldwide with her ASTRAL Quintet.  

American Grammy awarded Pianist Geoffrey Keezer said about her music : « This is fully contemporary acoustic jazz on a high level, with brilliant musicians that interpret and breathe her musical visions to life. »

Le monde :  "The swinging impulse as the sophistication towards musical clarity seduce and even enchant."

France Musique : "Leïla asserts herself as an authentic artist of today" - "Original, harmonious music"

Académie du jazz : "Pianist Leïla Olivesi's latest album delights us"