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The Lisa Hilton Quintet Returns With Another Winning Recording, "Naturally"

Source: DL Media
October 15, 2026

The Lisa Hilton Quintet returns with Naturally (Ruby Slippers Productions 1032) out November 27, 2026. The award-winning composer and critically acclaimed pianist once again teams with her renowned quintet on eleven hopeful, impressionistic and mesmerizing tracks. Naturally marks Hilton’s thirtieth album and is destined to become another classic in cool jazz… naturally. “Creating music that is natural, authentic, and expressive has always been important to me,” says Hilton, who also produced the album. “Now with the advent of A.I. I ...

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The Lisa Hilton Quintet Returns With The Fluid And Cool Extended Daydream

Source: DL Media
October 30, 2025

“Renowned for her lyrical touch, inventive compositions, and ability to reinterpret jazz standards with a fresh perspective, Hilton continues to cement her reputation as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary jazz. With Extended Daydream, Lisa Hilton and her quintet deliver an album that is at once sophisticated, genre-fluid, and emotionally resonant—a testament to the enduring power of jazz and Hilton’s mastery as a pianist and composer.” —Jazz Chill “Beautifully crafted and expertly impassioned new recording…” —Exclusive Magazine Featuring ...

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Lisa Hilton's New Album: Captivating, Cool, Impressionistic And Uplifting

Source: DL Media
November 25, 2024

“Imagine the peaks we could climb if everyone listening to Hilton or reading this played so well together. Truth be told, Lucky All Along could be as close to a greatest hits album Hilton, or any of us, will ever get….very attainable, very welcome, very deserved.” —Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz “A captivating blend of cool Jazz and impressionist-inspired compositions... Lucky All Along merges diverse jazz styles with impressionistic textures, making it a deeply emotive and innovative release.” —Jazz Sketches ...

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The Lisa Hilton Quartet Masters The Moment With Eloquence And Inspiration on 'Coincidental Moment'

Source: DL Media
October 31, 2023

The Lisa Hilton Quartet Masters the Moment With the Eloquent New Release: Coincidental Moment Featuring Trumpeter Igmar Thomas, Bassist Luques Curtis & Drummer Rudy Royston “I love the way jazz tugs at our emotions in a way no other music can: it can calmly seduce your soul or prompt you to dance," states the award-winning composer and acclaimed pianist Lisa Hilton in the liner notes for her latest release, Coincidental Moment (Ruby Slippers Productions 1029), out December 1, 2023. “The ...

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Lisa Hilton Celebrates Optimism In 'Life Is Beautiful' With Luques Curtis & Rudy Royston

Source: DL Media
March 31, 2022

Lisa Hilton and her trio, manifest a memorable experience on Life Is Beautiful, her third recording of the pandemic era, and the acclaimed pianist, composer, and producer’s twenty-fifth album as a leader. On it, Hilton indulges her love of the piano with ten original tracks and the cover gem, “Ernie’s Blues," (written by Ernie Wilkins). Backed by her ever-excellent band mates: Rudy Royston on drums and Luques Curtis on bass, Hilton’s elegantly swinging piano and engaging compositions encompass a range ...

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Lisa Hilton Redefines Her Path With Latest Album 'Chalkboard Destiny' Available December 6th

Source: DL Media
November 13, 2019

“My favorite album we’ve worked on in there’s a lot of great music!” —Al Schmitt, 23-time Grammy winning engineer “We live in an exciting time of constant change…” is the introductory quote from the award winning composer, and acclaimed pianist Lisa Hilton, in her liner notes for her latest release Chalkboard Destiny—recorded with jazz luminaries JD Allen on tenor saxophone, Rudy Royston on drums and Luques Curtis on bass. It’s an appropriate prelude for an album that unfolds with the ...

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Lisa Hilton Sets Forth On A Journey Promoting Peace, Tranquility and Positive Energy with "Escapism" - Available December 1 on Ruby Slippers Productions

Source: Lisa Hilton
November 1, 2017

Lisa Hilton often settles in at her piano and riffs on everyone from Miles Davis and Horace Silver to The Black Keys and Green Day, until she can find peace within the notes, letting them fill the room and fall where they languish in this glow of calm with a touch of brooding blues. Then this past year, the world changed a bit and finding that calm seemed a little more elusive. “Everything is charged with politics, a large portion ...

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Lisa Hilton "Getaway" Release With Larry Grenadier and Nasheet Waits

Source: Lisa Hilton
March 28, 2013

 Pianist/composer Lisa Hilton is one of the most distinctive and individualistic voices in jazz today. Her new album, Getaway (Ruby Slippers, #1016), is her fifteenth as a bandleader. Here she's joined in a powerful trio effort featuring her current all-star bandmates, bassist Larry Grenadier (Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny) and drummer Nasheet Waits (Jason Moran's Bandwagon, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Andrew Hill). This new album is a bold and exciting change of pace, Hilton bolstering her signature imagistic, lush, ...

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