Featured on "ABC listen" The Dinner Set with Monica Trapaga Feb 16th: "This youngster has some serious chops, and he's a brilliant arranger too!"

Featured on "Jazziz" Discovery Spring by Matt Micucii

Review on "All About Jazz" by Jack Bowers:
"As before, Chatzitsakos' choice of material is strong, as are his colorful arrangements. "

Review on "Jazzist" by Lev Borovkov:
"“Tiny Big Band” really sounds like a big orchestra "

Review on "JazzBuzz.gr" by Vangelis Aragiannis:
"Throughout its duration “Tiny Big Band 2” spreads bright light, vivid colors and happy to celebratory mood with the main feeling it conveys is that you would like to hear this orchestra live."

Interview on "Culture Now" by Christina Manolakaki

Review on "Take Effect" by Tom Haugen:
"A listen that’s not short on harmonies, melodies, solos and grooves, Chatzitsakos and company bridge the charm of a small ensemble with Big Band ideas"

Review on "Jazz Hot" by Jérôme Partage:
"Author of all the arrangements, Nikos Chatzitsakos revisits a wide jazz repertoire with a welcoming tone."

Review on "Jazz Views" by Barry Fox:
"All in all, I’d say that Nikos Chatzitsakos has achieved what he set out to do and “channelled an affinity for traditional jazz with a contemporary outlook."

Review on "La Habitación del Jazz":
"A beautiful album in which Chatzitsakos adapts a series of standards with a modern post-bop and contemporary aesthetic, and at the same time faithful to their traditional flavor, leaving at all times more than enough space for the musicians to shine with their solos"

Review on "Keys and Chords" by Philip Verhaege:
"Eight wonderful jazz tracks, surrounded by beautiful instrumental harmonies. For the enthusiast…"

Review on "Keep Jazzin" by Manthos Giourtzoglou
"In conclusion, this is a record full of favorite tracks that may have already been recorded thousands of times, but through Nikos's aesthetic, they manage to make us listen again as if they were new."

Review on "Making a Scene" by Dee Dee McNeil:
"Nikos brings us a small group that sounds as plush and well-rounded as a big band.  He has creatively arranged these familiar standard songs, with a taste of the Avant-garde and a sprinkle of contemporary jazz to refresh the old standards.  His musicians bring zest, youth, and personality to the project."

Featured on "Cultural Attache" New in Music This Week Feb 9th by Craig Byrd:
"They make a convincing argument that The Windmills of Your Mind, written by Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman is a truly great song. (The first to do this, in my opinion, since Dusty Springfield.)"

Feature on "ModernJazz.gr" 2024 Jazz Releases, Vol. 1:
"Original, inventive arrangements of jazz standards, by double bassist, arranger Nikos Chatzitsakos, leading a remarkable youthful ensemble, the Tiny Big band, on their second album."

Feautre on "Jazz-Fun.de":
"This is a great album. We are excited!"

Interview with Victoria Charalampous

Album Review by Michael van Gee on Jazz'n'More:
"The result is a wonderfully arranged, wonderfully swinging music, mainly with standards from the Great American Songbook alongside some jazz classics"

Interview for Greek newspaper "Avgi" by Ilan Solomon

Selected as The best of "La Couleurs jazz week #133.
"An album that really swings"

Review on "Jersey Jazz" Magazine by Joe Lang:
"Chatzitsakos has provided swing arrangements with a contemporary edge that are played with verve by his band."

Feature on "Jazz-Fun.DE":
"This youth pours out from many places like a volcano of pure energy, a source of irrepressible ideas from which one can hear genuine joy."

Review on "Babskim Uchem" by Marta Ratajczak:
"Really, it's hard to believe that (so intriguing, beautiful, ambitious and pleasant to listen to) this album is the phonographic debut of a Greek musician."

Interview on the radio program Keep Jazzin on ERT open by Manthos Yiourtzoglou

Feature on May albums of "Verhoovens Jazz"

 Selected for 2022 Jazz Releases Vol III
"Nikos Chatzitsakos skillfully arranges classic jazz standards for a 12-member ensemble of young and forward-thinking soloists"

Featured as one of "10 new greek jazz albums"
Album review by Phontas Troussas:
"This album by Nikos Chatzitsakos has both substance and simplicity, with the result that it easily wins you over."

Album review by Dimitris Orlis:

Review on "Jazzwise" by Eddie Myer: "Chatzitsakos keeps a firm hand on the tiller - his own playing is great, the arranging is genuinely outstanding, and the band's truly formidable chops are matched with an unselfconsciously  youthful energy"

Review on "Jazz on Arts Axis Florida WUSF" by Andy Harrison: "Chatzitsakos’ arrangements are performed with an energy that is often lacking among big bands, making this a standout record in 2024 so far. "

Album Review by George Harris on Jazz Weekly:
"Bassist and leader Nikos Chatzitsakos brings together a swinging unit that focuses on rich charts and melodic solos"

Review on "YellowBox" issue 24 by Nikos Tzavellas:
"The jazz standards that we hear on the record, are transformed with the youthful enthusiasm of the musicians and the arranger into something contemporary, but equally intimate and melodic."

Interview on "CNN Greece" by Stelios Papagrigoriou

Feature & review on 8 new jazz releases "LiFO" by Phontas Troussas:
"Nikos Chatzitsakos shows once again how he "owns" the material in question and can easily handle it orchestrally, creating all those vibes that largely characterize the specific tracks."

Review on "Paris Move" by Patrick Dallongeville:
"beautiful demonstration of modern swing, from which a youthful commitment flows."

Review on "O's Place Jazz" by Oscar Groomes:
"But rest assured that they do a fine job illustrating fresh takes of the American songbook"

Review on "Jazz Quad" by Leonid Auskern:
"they made an album that wasn't only not inferior in its merits to their debut work, but also in many ways took a noticeable step forward, Nikos and his colleagues can only be congratulated."

Review on "Sk Jazz.sk" by Jan Graus:
"All in all, it's an enjoyable collection of familiar standards, combining the intimacy of a small jazz ensemble with dynamic energy."

Review on "Diskoryxeion/Vinylmine" by Phontas Troussas:
"Nikos Chatzitsakos shows once again how he "owns" the material in question and can easily handle it orchestrally, creating all those vibes that largely characterize the specific tracks."

Review on "Verhoovens Jazz":
"It’s fascinating how the eleven of them manage to create a volume that sounds like a large-format big band"

Review on "Musicalmemoirs's Blog" by Dee Dee McNeil:
"Nikos brings us a small group that sounds as plush and well-rounded as a big band.  He has creatively arranged these familiar standard songs, with a taste of the Avant-garde and a sprinkle of contemporary jazz to refresh the old standards.  His musicians bring zest, youth, and personality to the project."

Feature & review on "Avopolis" by Aggelos Kirousis

Feature on "WTJU" New Jazz Releases – 03/18/2024 by Russell Perry

Feautre on "Anne Carlini"

Interview with Demetres Kanellopoulos

Album Review by Jack Bowers on All About Jazz:
"The ensemble plays with assurance and enthusiasm, investing Chatzitsakos' charts (he arranged every number) with an ample supply of intensity. "

Album Review by George Harris on Jazz Weekly:
"Chatzitsakos leads into a tasty “Lined With A Groove” and lets Baden and Vega-Dowda strut through “Tenderly” while the horns give a pulsating Afro Cuban feel to “Willow Weep For Me”. Flavorful forms."

Two Track Video featured on "No Treble".

Review on "Jazz Quad" by Leonid Auskern:
"Chatzitsakos in his versions enriched these melodies with quite modern jazz language, without distorting their basis"

Feature video of the week on "SkJazz.Sk":

Review on "Keep Jazzin" by Manthos Yiourtzoglou.
"Music that takes us back to the roots of all this vast ocean called jazz, given with respect and an aesthetic approach that "seeks" the connection with the today."

Interview on newspaper "Εφημερίδα Αιγάλεω"

Feature on "Sandy Brown Jazz"

Album review by Phontas Troussas:
"This album by Nikos Chatzitsakos has both substance and simplicity, with the result that it easily wins you over."

Review at Midwest Record:
"This is a date that's at once familiar with foreign with a load of unexpected twists and turns to keep you hopping."