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Leïla Olivesi

Leïla Olivesi is a French female pianist and composer based in Paris.

Winner of the Best of Jazz 2025 : "Best musician of the year" and "Best conductor of the year", by JazzMagazine and JazzNews.

Winner of the Django Reinhardt Prize by the Académie du Jazz 2022: Best French Musician of the year.

She is PhD in musicology at the Sorbonne University and MA graduate in philosophy at the Sorbonne.

In 2013, she received the Ellington Composers first prize, the international big band composing competition. She was commissioned for "Rhapsody in Black" by the mixed choir Choeur Philharmonique intertnational, Unesco Artist for Peace (2025), le "Tour du monde en 80 lunes" for the Choir VOCO (département des Hauts de Seine) for 500 teens singers (2025), and the "Suite Andamane" for symphonic orchestra, jazz big band and mixed choir (2016).

African Rhapsody

By Leïla Olivesi

Label: Attention Fragile
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. African Rhapsody 2. Corsica 3. Wayne Left Town 4. Blue Chinguetti 5. Little African Flower 6. Joy 7. Aurore 8. Afro Queen Poetic Birds Suite : 9. Les Nuits 10. Un jour, le Silence 11. New york

Hugues Kieffer: Marseille, Five Continents, One Jazz

by Silvia Papa
July 1, 2026

In its 26 years of existence, the festival Marseille Jazz Five Continents has evolved from an event aimed primarily at local audiences--offering Marseille residents the chance to hear some of the biggest names in jazz live--to a boundary-crossing festival that embraces the full richness and diversity of contemporary jazz. Today, it offers an immersive experience spanning ...

Fergus McCreadie, Michael Formanek, Leïla Olivesi, Mark Turner, Orlando le Fleming

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 13, 2026

Here is music born in a remote cottage in the Outer Hebrides, or rethinking how the Hammond organ fits within a large, adventurous ensemble; music that celebrates Corsica, or brings long-standing collaborations to new heights.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Fergus McCreadie “Ford the ...

Anders Hagberg, Arek Czernysz Quartet, Coulondre/Dolmen/Privat & more

by Marek J. Śmietański
December 19, 2025

From October's new European releases, I chose 19 remarkable premieres for Episode 118th--with the majority coming from merely three regions: five each from Poland, France, and the Scandinavia. The selection brimmed with daring, unconventional instrumentation, revealing itself most vividly through intimate and startling duets and trios. A superb set... nothing more, nothing less--just pure jazz alchemy, ...

Rebecca Nash, Oded Tzur, Elvin Jones, Designers and Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 21, 2023

Tributes to Leonard Cohen and Martin Denny, young saxophonone mavericks, unerthed gems and elegant arrangements in this week's edition of Mondo Jazz. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Leonhart Brass Band “Snake Oil" Snake Oil—Single (Mighty Eye) 0:16 Host talks 2:47 Marco Cappelli's ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Leïla Olivesi, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bryan, Kirk Knuffke and Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 19, 2020

Here is the second part of this week's exploration of new releases [for the first part click here] by Kirk Knuffke and Paul Bryan as well as upcoming Blue Note albums by Charles Lloyd, and South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini. To top off Mondo Jazz's 100th episode, a celebration of Federico Fellini's centennial through his soundtrack ...