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Saturday night was a winning night! I am very grateful to say that last year’s album,  Lucky All Along,   won an award for  Best Jazz Album,  and that my tune  Hollywood Moment  won for  Best Jazz Solo Performance  at the  World Entertainment Awards  in Hollywood. Thank you to everyone at the World Entertainment Awards! We really appreciate the recognition.  Those two awards came in just a few days after our new album,  Extended Daydream,  popped up to #10 on the  Jazz Week  

Well it’s here - the New Year!   So yes, that means we have another new album - this one with all my favorite players: JD Allen, Igmar Thomas, Luques Curtis and Rudy Royston. What an amazing band I get to play with - there is some incredible playing on this album!  Fortunately,  Extended Daydream  has already been receiving great reviews from  The London Times  and  Drummers World  as well as 5 Stars from  All Music Guide  and even more reviews from  Jazz Weekly, All About Ja

Fall is here, and so is our new album! Every year at this time it seems a bit of a miracle that we have a new album to share with the world. It represents about 9 months of work + post production, and then it’s HERE!  How do I feel?  Relieved is the biggest emotion, certainly hopeful that it will lift others spirits and lives is in there too. On this recording, I feel really proud of how our band played and the incredible sound from our engineers. Thankful to have my incredib

For Your Grammy Nominations Consideration in These Categories… Best Jazz Instrumental Album: LISA HILTON LUCKY ALL ALONG Best...

Hi there, I’ve been pretty quiet lately, but I bet you figured out that I was in my “Composing Season” - that’s correct!  Every February...

Hi there, I hope things are going well for you, and that you have some interesting plans for the summer. After a trip recently to Big...

March begins my FAVORITE time of year - no not the end of winter - but the start of Composing Season. Every year changing the clocks adds...

Well it looks like we might have an early spring in in SoCal - the fruit trees are blooming and the sunshine is making its presence...

There’s good GRAMMY NEWS: I’m excited that my bandmates Luques Curtis (bass) and Rudy Royston (drums), are on Grammy nominated albums...

Dear Friends, As everyone is aware, we have had a difficult time in SoCal with extreme and intense fires.  The scale of destruction, the...

New Year’s Eve is just a few days away… And one of the wildest years is coming to a close. Do you think next year will be calmer or...

Photo of Lisa Hilton by Robert Smith I’ll be staying at my home in Malibu for the holidays and my family will all be congregating here....

Can you believe the holidays are right around the corner?  I admit that I am looking forward to focusing on family instead of politics! I...

My 30th album is out after Thanksgiving, but like everyone else we’re hoping for nominations for our last album,  Coincidental Moment. ...

Lucky All Along: A Cool & Impressionistic New Release From The Lisa Hilton Quartet Featuring Lisa Hilton/piano, Igmar Thomas/trumpet,...

I'm not sure if you've seen these 2 new videos so I thought I'd share them with you - we hope you like them! https://www.youtube.com/watc...

I wanted to take the time to thank ALL the stations and streamers that are playing music from our album Coincidental Moment.  And while...

With a New Year and all that, I have decided to write Sunday updates on creativity, an idea that my friend Kabir Sehgal suggested.  I...

With Luques Curtis, Igmar Thomas and Rudy Royston at SF Jazz - photo by Scott Chernis We started our tour last week, and I can’t tell you...

We've all heard about the issues with scalper tickets to Taylor Swift concerts but now there are scalper tickets for our March shows,...