Lilly-Ann Hertzman
NEW ALBUM OUT March 26: The Song Is You feat Gilad Hekselman & Kirk Knuffke
About Me
Top 5 Best Vocal Release 2017!
- The New York City Jazz Record
“Lillys and Hekselman’s arrangements reach
almost the impossible of regenerating
standards like the title track, “You Go To My
Head”, “Skylark” and “Day Dream” to the point
of ownership rather than reinterpretation”
- The New York City Jazz Record
LILLY aka Lilly-Ann Hertzman (b. 1973)
is a singer, songwriter and producer who has
received great reviews for creating evocative
songs and soundscapes of a rare kind and with
a personal expression and sound. Her
inspirations are many and goes across multiple
genres with jazz and singer- songwriter as the
main ones. Her origins also cross borders, with
a mother from Japan and a father from
Denmark.
Lilly has released four acclaimed albums. Two
with own lyrics in English, Before The Crossing
(2005) and Love Is A Sound (2009). Her third
album, and the first with lyrics in Danish, was
titled Menneskeblomst (2016), a selfinvented
word that means Humanflower. The duoalbum,
Tenderly feat. Gilad Hekselman (2017) ,
received rave reviews from USA, Germany and
Denmark, and was chosen as TOP 5 BEST
VOCAL RELEASE 2017 by The New York City
Jazz Record.
Lilly is educated from the Royal Academy
of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, from the
department of music & movement, and has
played, recorded and collaborated with some of
the finest, most talented and versatile creative
musicians in Scandinavia, Europe and US.
Among others Lew Soloff (US), Aaron Parks
(US), Gilad Hekselman (ISR), Kirk KnuXe (US),
Gustaf Ljunggren (S), Anders AC Christensen
(DK), Jonas Berg (S), Jeppe Kjellberg (DK),
Thommy Andersson (S), Krister Jonsson (S),
Jacob Fischer (DK) a.o.
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“Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass set the bar high
for guitar-vocal duos. Danish singer LILLY (-Ann
Hertzman) and guitarist Gilad Hekselman touch
that bar with Tenderly.”
— All About Jazz
“I am touched and deeply impressed by Lillys
new album, Tenderly... So touched and
impressed, that I have to say, that Tenderly is
not only Lillys best release until date, but one
of the recent years best Danish
vocaljazzalbums! (...) The voice and the guitar is
like a match made in heaven” - GAFFA (Danish
music magazine)
“.. listening to her, while she is being
accompanied by Gilad - that has the stuff of
legend” (....) Lilly’s authenticity is
unsurpassable”
- Jazz Podium (German jazzmagazine)
“Tenderly is a truly suburb recording, which
rightly raises the expectations for her next
effort”
- The New York City Jazz Record
