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Lisa Hilton
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Laced with a pulsating West Coast cool energy, the award-winning composer and acclaimed pianist Lisa K. Hiltons’, recordings are imbued with subtle historical references from a wide variety of genres and eras, sounding distinctly twenty-first century and uniquely of her own style. Her compositional inspirations do spring from jazz legends Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Horace Silver and Duke Ellington, but they also include her favorite bluesmen, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, touches of minimalism from the likes Steve Reich, rhythmic swatches from modernists such as Prokofiev and Bartok or chords from rockers like The Black Keys or Green Day – they all hold sway in Hilton’s imagination when she composes.
Originally from a small town on California’s central coast, Hilton studied classical and twentieth-century piano formally from the age of eight, where she was inspired by her great uncle, Willem Bloemendall, (1910-1937), a Dutch piano virtuoso
Lisa Hilton: Paradise Cove
by Lisa Hilton
"I think we all need jazz in our lives these days. From its inception, jazz and blues were created to boost moods or morale by America's earliest composers, such as Scott Joplin, Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton, and Nick La Rocca around the beginning of the 1900s. The music on Paradise Cove was composed and created to ...
New Releases From Mimi Fox and Ed Cherry, Birthday Shoutouts to Dolly Parton, Sade, Cheryl Bentyne And More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from guitarists Mimi Fox and Ed Cherry, drummer Abbie Finn, vocalists Libby York, Paul Carrack, Jose James and Kari Kirkland, with birthday shoutouts to Dolly Parton, Sade, Lizz Wright, Peter Eldridge, Mariah Parker, Cheryl Bentyne and Kate McGarry, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by ...
Another Simple Sunday - New Releases, Part 2 of Favorite 2022 Recordings & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast continues to celebrate 2023 with new releases from Lisa Hilton, Richie Goods & Chien Chien Lu, birthday shoutouts to Jazz Capricorns Anat Cohen and Myra Melford, plus Part 2 of some favorite releases of 2022. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic ...
Life is Beautiful
By Lisa Hilton
Label: Ruby Slippers Productions
Released: 2022
Track listing: Ernie's Blues; Retro Road Trip; Nightingales and Fairy Tales; Too Hot; Unforgotten Moments, Half
Forgotten Dreams; Stepping Into Paradise: Santa Monica Samba; Seduction; Temporary Lullaby; More
Than Another Day; So This Is Love.
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.
Take Five With Lisa Hilton, Revisited
by AAJ Staff
Meet Lisa Hilton Lisa Kristine Hilton is a composer, pianist, producer and bandleader. Growing up on California's beautiful central coast, Hilton was so entranced with the piano that she taught herself to play with a colored keyboard guide and composed simple songs before beginning piano lessons. Attending college in San Francisco, she missed the creativity she had ...
Pianist Lisa Hilton Debuts New Dynamic Quartet on 'Paradise Cove'
“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 ...
Lisa Hilton: Paradise Cove
by Mike Jurkovic
At a time in our collective consciousness when it appears nothing is functioning as it once did, or is as reliable as it once was, or gives us purpose and solace as we once knew, along comes the soft sustaining magic of Lisa Hilton's gorgeous new recording, Paradise Cove, and for all of its enchanting forty-five ...
Rock Songs as Jazz with Charles Lloyd, Lisa Hilton and others
by Jerome Wilson
This show has jazz musicians interpreting a wide variety of rock and pop songs. There is Charles Lloyd playing Bob Dylan, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra playing David Bowie and much more. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & ...
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