Lisa Hilton | SFJAZZ 2023-24 Season
SFJAZZ Center
Jazz and Blues Pianist

Lisa Hilton Quartet

MAR 7-24 | WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION

Mar 07, 2024
Joe Henderson Lab
ThuMar 7
7:00 PM

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ThuMar 7
8:30 PM

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“An excellent pianist, prizing feel over flash” (JazzWise), instrumentalist and composer Lisa Hilton is a major voice in jazz whose career is an inspirational lesson in pursuing one’s dream. She brings her all-star quartet to this JHL date, performing music from her 2022 Ruby Slipper release Paradise Cove.

Discovering an aptitude for the piano as a child in San Luis Obispo, CA, Hilton studied classical piano at San Francisco State with the renowned pianist Carlo Bussotti before realizing that a career as a classical artist was not for her. Completing her degree in art and design, Hilton began a successful career as a visual artist and left music behind.

Rekindling her love of jazz in the 1990s, Hilton dove in headfirst, releasing her debut album Seduction on her own Ruby Slipper label in 1997. Since that auspicious start, Hilton has recorded no less than 28 albums that highlight her masterful playing and inimitable compositions that owe their evocative, cinematic themes to her visual work.

Named for our need to find a ‘cove’ or protected spot in our personal lives to escape, revitalize, or reboot, Paradise Cove features a world class quartet including trumpeter Igmar Thomas, bassist Luques Curtis and former SFJAZZ Collective drummer Obed Calvaire. On this date, drumming great Rudy Royston stands in for Calvaire.

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“An excellent pianist” (JazzWise), Hilton and her stellar quartet playing music from her Paradise Cove album and her forthcoming new release.

Hilton has a knack for writing original compositions that expand the traditional pianist spectrum.

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Hilton has a knack for writing original compositions that expand the traditional pianist spectrum.

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Personnel

Lisa Hilton piano
Igmar Thomas trumpet
Luques Curtis bass
Rudy Royston drums

Music of great depth and skill…brilliantly executed, gorgeously rendered, accessible-to-many virtuosic music.

NYC Jazz Record on Lisa Hilton

Personnel

Lisa Hilton piano
Igmar Thomas trumpet
Luques Curtis bass
Rudy Royston drums

Music of great depth and skill…brilliantly executed, gorgeously rendered, accessible-to-many virtuosic music.

NYC Jazz Record on Lisa Hilton

Watch & Listen

Lisa Hilton

Paradise Cove

Lisa Hilton

Fast Time Blues

Lisa Hilton

Paradise Cove

Lisa Hilton

Fast Time Blues

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