Jazz Articles about Olivia Trummer

Olivia Trummer and Nicola Angelucci at the 2019 Val di Fassa Panorama Music Festival

by Danilo Codazzi
August 25, 2019

Olivia Trummer: Threading Gold

by Ian Patterson
January 2, 2015

Singer/pianist and composer Oliva Trummer is spreading her wings. After four albums leading bands, the Stuttgart-born musician is venturing out as a solo artist, with her latest album Fly Now (Contemplate, 2014) garnering positive reviews internationally. Since appearing at 12 Points in 2013 Trummer has played with Jimmy Cobb and supported Charles Lloyd, while her 2014 tour of Ireland and the UK was crowned by a sold-out gig at the EFG London Jazz Festival. If hitherto Trummer has mainly worked ...

Olivia Trummer: Fly Now

by Ian Patterson
December 21, 2014

Singer or pianist? Actually, both hats fit Stuttgart-born Olivia Trummer pretty snugly, as evidenced by her splendid opening slot for Charles Lloyd in Dublin's National Concert Hall in November--alongside bassist David Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady--and her subsequent sell-out show at the EFG London Jazz Festival. Trummer possess a soulful voice of pristine quality and displays a feathery, understated lyricism on the keys; both assets are finely tuned and beautifully balanced on this, her fifth recording as leader.