Jazz Articles about Lola Perrin

Lola Perrin: Rave Music for Butterflies

by John Eyles
June 19, 2007

Born in New York (with Ukrainian and Hungarian roots), and educated in Switzerland, pianist Lola Perrin is now based in London. Following an early career producing soundtracks for television she went into a period of musical isolation until she launched her solo career in 2003. Ever since, she has attracted increasing attention across Europe as a performer and composer

In the autumn of 2006, on a double bill with her brother Roland, she played at Spitz on the closing night ...

Lola Perrin: Fragile Light

by John Eyles
December 12, 2006

Lola Perrin's second album expands on the success of her debut, Perpetual Motion (Blue Planet, 2004), incorporating its Perpetual Motion Piano Suite III, plus two other suites. That use of “suites may suggest that Perrin's music has affinities with classical piano music, and indeed she has drawn comparisons with Schubert, Debussy and Ravel--comparisons which she gladly accepts--although I find Perpetual Motion most reminiscent of Erik Satie. But that is not the whole story; there are also close affinities with the ...