OLA TUNJI band

A first album, currently in preparation, will be released in 2026 on WERF Records.

UPCOMING CONFIRMED EVENTS

• January 14, 2026 : SIDE PROJECT – Ornella Noulet & Egon Wolfson, Le Cercle du Laveu, Liège
• January 19, 2026 : Le Duc des Lombards, Paris
• February 22, 2026 : Festival Jazz En Nord, édition Printemps 2026, Théâtre Charcot, Marcq-en-Bareuil
• March 8, 2026 : artacts ’26 – Festival for Jazz and Improvised Music, St. Johann in Tirol, Austria
• March 28, 2026 : Brosella Festival, Volta, Brussels
• April 16, 2026 : Hnita Jazz Club, Heist-op-den-Berg
• May 4-8, 2026 : Album recording
• May 14, 2006 : SIDE PROJECT – Ornella Noulet / Dudu Kouate / Theo Zipper / Diogo Alexandre, Jazz Station, Brussels

UPCOMING EVENTS TO BE CONFIRMED

• Summer Festivals 2026 : Gent (Belgium), Avignon (France), Nîmes (France)…

THE SUNSIDE TROPHIES – 24th edition, in this cult place for jazz enthusiasts in Paris: 13 participating groups over three evenings, including Ornella Noulet, who won second prize for soloist with OLA TUNJI.

To read this laudatory article and review by Franck Bergerot (*) published in JazzMagazine.com (September 5, 2025) : OLA TUNJI and the Leo Geller Quartet featuring Jérémie Lucchese

(*) Franck BERGEROT has been writing for thirty-five years in the specialized music press (Jazz Hot, Jazzman, Jazz Magazine, Le Monde de la Musique). He has been editor-in-chief of Jazz Magazine since 2007. Co-author with Arnaud Merlin of a two-volume history of jazz (L’Épopée du jazz, coll. “Découvertes”, Gallimard, 1990), he is also the author of Le Jazz dans tous ses états (Larousse, 2010) and Miles Davis, introduction à l’écoute du jazz moderne (Seuil, 1996). In 2009, he wrote the main text for the catalog of the exhibition We Want Miles organized by the Cité de la Musique. With Frédéric Goaty, he wrote the liner notes for the international edition The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a complete collection of Miles Davis’ original albums on 53 CDs. In the same year, he produced a “Nuit Miles Davis” for France Musique.

Yesterday (August 1, 2025), OLA TUNJI won the Avignon Jazz Festival’s European musical springboard (33rd edition)!

Grand Jury Prize: OLA TUNJI
AND
Best Soloist Award: Ornella Noulet (saxophone)

Photo credit : jzzm_photography

• Summer Festivals 2026 : Gent (Belgium), Avignon (France), Nîmes (France)…
• September 3, 2025 : OLA TUNJI – Trophées du Sunside, Jazz Club Paris
• September 2, 2025 : After Jazz à la Petite Halle de la Villette : OLA TUNJI
• August 15, 2025 : Visual Sound Outdoor Festival 2025 (Festival for free jazz, improvised music and experimental music) at Parzelle Dortmund, Germany : Noulet/Wolfson
• August 1, 2025 : Finale Tremplin Avignon Jazz Festival, Avignon (Cloître des Carmes) ; Results : OLA TUNJI wins the Avignon Jazz Festival’s European musical springboard!

OLA TUNJI Wins Gent Jazz Talent 2025 and the Audience Award!

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