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F Y C: B E S T J A Z Z A L B U M Lisa Hilton Extended Daydream Winner: Best Jazz Album / World Entertainment Awards 2026 Winner: Best Jazz Solo Performance / Hollywood Moment / World Entertainment Awards ★★★★★ All Music Guide “The Best of Jazz Albums of 2025": ‘Extended Daydream’ London Times “The Best of Jazz Album To Listen To This Week” ‘Extended Daydream’ London Times "Hilton has carved out a career as not only an impressive pianist with her own sound, but one able t

The Lisa Hilton Quintet Returns With Another Winning Recording, Naturally Preorder on Amazon or Apple Music now: out 11/27/26 “Technically brilliant and emotionally honest — a sonic balm for anxious times, reminding us that jazz still washes away life’s dust.” The Daily News Now! Apple Podcast The Lisa Hilton Quintet returns with Naturally out November 27, 2026.The award-winning composer and critically acclaimed pianist once again teams with her renowned quintet on eleven h

Happy May! I recently received two World Entertainment Awards for Best Jazz Album and Best Jazz Performance and last week the trophies arrived. What a wonderful experience to receive this recognition for the album Lucky All Along, at the same time our new album, Extended Daydream has been in the Top Ten on the JazzWeek Chart for about four months. These are milestones that every musician feels gratitude and joy for - an indication that the music that has been created is conne

Thank you to Jazz Week Chart Stations!

It’s hard to believe that spring is almost here! I hope that great weather will be here soon! I wanted to catch you up on a busy month here - wonderful news for us recently: our latest album Extended Daydream is now #3 on the JazzWeek chart which charts the amount of radio and streaming for all jazz albums currently out. This is quite an honor for us. You might have heard that on Jan 31st the album Lucky All Along won two World Entertainment Awards, and I also am a sem

It’s been a busy start to the year don’t you think? The photo above is after I had lunch with the new president of Berklee College of Music, Jim Lucchese in Los Angeles. I think he will be an excellent president for Berklee & wish him well! Every year comes with a new energy and so far this year I’ve been spending some time talking about creativity, jazz and sharing how the songs on our new album Extended Daydream came about. I really enjoyed my Zoom session with Matt Silver

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. ...