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From the album, “More Than Another Day,” by Lisa Hilton.

“In a few instances, the compositions written for More Than Another Day are absolutely breath-taking. Hilton has a way of injecting such warmth into her left hand that, no matter what sort of piece the pianist tackles, she leaves behind a sense of delicate intimacy not found in the repertoire of other artists.” – Peter J. Hoetje/AllAboutJazz.

Personnel:

Lisa K. Hilton – Piano
Luques Curtis – Bass
Rudy Royston – Drums

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Label: Ruby Slippers Productions – 1025
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Nov 4, 2020

Lisa Kristine Hilton is a distinctive composer of jazz, an acclaimed pianist, a bandleader and producer. Growing up in a small town on California’s central coast, she originally taught herself to play piano with a colored keyboard guide, writing her first simple songs around six years old, before beginning studies in classical and twentieth century music starting at the age of eight. In college she switched majors from music, and graduated instead with a degree in art. This art background informs her musical creations: she describes “painting” compositions using improvisation, and harmony or “sculpting” with multiple rhythmic ideas from different cultures. Hilton’s music draws on classical traditions and twentieth century modernists as well as classic American jazz greats such as Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk, and Horace Silver, and blues heroes Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. (JazzTimes).