Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Lisa Hilton - Kaleidoscope

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:04
Size: 115,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:53)  1. Simmer
(4:40)  2. Whispered Confessions
(5:00)  3. Labyrinth
(5:07)  4. When I Fall in Love
(3:41)  5. Bach, Basie, Bird Boogie Blues Bop
(3:51)  6. Kaleidoscope
(4:30)  7. Midnight Mania
(3:12)  8. Blue Horizon
(5:28)  9. Stepping Into Paradise
(3:51) 10. One and Only
(4:46) 11. Sunny Side Up

“Lisa Hilton’s signature style is impressively on display.”  George Harris/JazzWeekly

“Lisa Hilton is a jazz musician of incredible sensibility and nuance that, along with a beautifully evocative style of playing, places her at the very top. The track Midnight Mania is insanely great music, one of several by the way, where Hilton and JD are in perfect sync, with bassist Grenadier and drummer Marcus Gilmore pushing the beat in some truly fascinating ways.” ~ Hugh Carson/KVNF Radio

“We play a boat-load of Lisa Hilton’s music, & have quite a few fans on our staff.” ~ Mark DeBoskey/ KSDS Radio

 “LOVE IT! Nice arrangements/feel/music.  I really like the composed/impressionistic aspects, plus the lush recording.” ~ Todd Steed/WUOT Radio

 “Under the deft touch and considerable artistic vision of Lisa Hilton, modern and traditional jazz come together as one. The new sound for improvisational music is only enhanced with the prolific rhythm section of bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Marcus Gilmore when you toss in the King of improvisational minimalism in tenor player, J.D. Allen, then things just got serious. Nine of the eleven tunes on Kaleidoscope are originals further solidifying Hilton as a composer of note. In somewhat the same lyric vein as Allen there has been a zen-like less is more quality to Hilton’s work, yet with Allen the harmonics and the lyric flow are more open ended and there is a deceptively subtle sense of urgency smoldering just beneath the surface. Hilton moves effortlessly between classical and jazz with Bach/Basie/Bird Boogie Blues Bop while doing her own riff on Horace Silver and Herbie Hancock with the opening tune, Simmer. There is a shift, a lyrical and harmonic adjustment within the more traditional ranks of jazz and Lisa Hilton is now leading the charge. A formidable quartet with adventurous original compositions banged out by some of the finest musicians of our time. It doesn’t get much better than this”.  ~ Brent Black/Critical Jazz.com 2014     http://lisahiltonmusic.com/?p=1337

Personnel: Lisa Hilton (piano); J.D. Allen (tenor saxophone); Marcus Gilmore (drums).

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