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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Gerald Clayton, Igmar Thomas, Johnny O'Neal & Wes Montgomery

by Joe Dimino
April 27, 2025

As we gear up for the Count Basie at 90 Celebration right here in Kansas City on International Jazz Day 2025, featuring none other than the legendary Count Basie Orchestra, we kick things off in style--with a nod to one of the true greats. We open the show with Wes Montgomery, spinning a track from his ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Fini Bearman, Gerald Clayton, Shamek Farra

by Cheryl K.
April 26, 2025

During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music, new releases from the improvisational ensemble Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness; saxophonists David Murray and Kamasi Washington; singer-songwriter Fini Bearman; pianist Gerald Clayton; guitarist Roman Pilon; and from the first batch of resurrected releases from Strata-East, First Impressions by saxophonist Shamek Farrah. Playlist Joe Henderson ...

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Lucky All Along

By Lisa Hilton

Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2024
Track listing: Little Beach Mornings; All Blues; Prophesies & Predictions; Hollywood Moment; And Some Blues; Escapist Fantasy; See You Again; Starry, Starry Eyes; Lucky All Along; Big Sur Views; Snow On The Beach.

News: Recording

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

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Lisa Hilton: Lucky All Along

Read "Lucky All Along" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 23, 2024

Throughout the course of her quietly triumphant, just south-of-the-spotlight, virtuoso career, pianist/composer Lisa Hilton has never actively pursued, Captain Ahab-like, the biggest fish in the sea. She has played alongside many of the biggies--Christian McBride, Antonio Sanchez, Nasheet Waits, Sean Jones, JD Allen--but finds the greatest comfort, harmony, and camaraderie among her long-standing rhythm mates: bassist Luques Curtis, drummer ...

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Coincidental Moment

By Lisa Hilton

Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Anxiety Society; Jagged Lil' Blues; Happily Go Luckily; Blue Tropics; Blue In Green; Enigmatic Adventure; Multiple Perspectives; West Coast; Coincidental Moment; Everyday Anthem; Uncommon Poetry.

Song of the Day

Everyday Anthem

December 22, 2023

Album: Coincidental Moment
By Lisa Hilton
Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:31

Article: Album Review

Lisa Hilton: Coincidental Moment

Read "Coincidental Moment" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
November 29, 2023

As good as Coincidental Moment is, there is an uncharacteristic sense of sameness infused in many of these bossa blues. As she notes in the liners, lauded and long-trusted pianist Lisa Hilton intended the music to illuminate the cool energies and history of jazz while relating to these hair-shirt times in which we find ...

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Paradise Cove

By Lisa Hilton

Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2022
Track listing: Birks' Works; Fast Time Blues; Blues Vagabond; Another Simple Sunday With You; Cha Cha Cha À La Carte; Mercurial Moments; Night Cap & a Little Chaos;Storybook Sequel; Mediterranean Dreams; What the World Needs Now is Love; Paradise Cove.

News: Recording

Pianist Lisa Hilton Debuts New Dynamic Quartet on 'Paradise Cove'

December 3, 2022

“I think we all need jazz in our lives these days,” composer, pianist, bandleader and producer Lisa K. Hilton writes in the liner notes for her 26th release, Paradise Cove (Ruby Slipper Productions). “From its inception ragtime, jazz and blues were created to boost moods or morale by America’s earliest composers, such as Scott Joplin, Ferdinand ...