Oddly enough, Elliott began her professional music career writing children's music books for Usborne Publishing and Boosey & Hawkes. However, projects like The Usborne Piano Course and Violin Fun Factory, which taught music theory to kids by utilizing cartoons, began to restrict her creativity. Looking for new challenges, Elliott decided to enroll in a jazz workshop. She eventually began forming bands of her own and co-founded the Under the Edge Jazz Club in 2004. In 2009, Elliott started working on Walking the Edge.
The wide-eyed imagination that once felt held back by the limitations of children's literature is in full bloom on Walking the Edge. Here, Elliott expresses her creativity without any boundaries, artistic or geographic. Elliott takes a visual approach to the piano pieces on Walking the Edge, which ironically might be echoes of her days producing children's books. These songs are like drawings or, more specifically, paintings. The softly played piano of “Across the Bay" is just as picturesque as its title; when the tempo picks up, it sparkles magnificently like the sun rising over the crystal-blue water. “Crane School" commences with a jubilant pulse before winding down to a warm caress.
Elliott's piano is always expressive and conveying a sense of awe, turning Walking the Edge into a record that is alive and overflowing with joy.
