For those not in the know, More Than Anther Day (out now via Lisa Hilton Music) is the latest instrumental jazz release from composer/pianist/producer, Lisa Hilton.

Hilton and her band mates Rudy Royston on drums, and Luques Curtis on bass, had just finished the first half of their tour for their 2020 album, Chalkboard Destiny, when the corona virus forced a shutdown of the tour, and soon thereafter, lockdown in the U.S.

Grounded and worried for a relative stuck and sick in Italy, Hilton did what she said she's always done: "I have always turned to my creativity in difficult times," she reveals. "I think it is how I process what is happening in our world."

"For artists, creative projects flourish in down times - I think quiet propels creativity."

Lisa Hilton is a distinctive composer of jazz, as well as an acclaimed pianist. 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, 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. Hilton's art background informs her compositions, for she describes painting compositions using improvisation, and harmony or sculpting with constantly changing rhythmic ideas from different cultures.

Furthermore, Hilton's music draws on classical traditions, and twentieth century modernists as well as classic American jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Horace Silver, as well as blues heroes Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson.

A prolific and passionate composer as well as an accomplished producer, Hilton has recorded about 300 tracks.

1. 'More Than Another Day'
2. 'Retro Road Trip'
3. 'Secret Beach'
4. 'I’ve Got You Under My Skin'
5. 'Blues & Beauty'
6. 'No Sleep Until…'
7. 'Dear Life of Mine'
8. 'Karma Chaos'
9. 'Today I Looked At Love'
10. 'So This Is Love'

This quite compelling new album - one that showcases the creative range of Hilton and her trio as it seamlessly moves through different rhythmic ideas, genres and eras, with Royston and Curtis providing stellar additions to Hilton's nine compositions and one cover tune - opens with the free flowing majesty of the title track, and backs that up with the groovy swing of 'Retro Road Trip,' and then we get the more precise, cultured 'Secret Beach,' which is followed by the only cover tune, an exquisitely fine tuned rendition of Cole Porter's 'I've Got You Under My Skin.'

Capturing the ambiance of a world within itself, the longest track at over six minutes is the tranquil piano work of the hazy 'Blues & Beauty' and that's followed by both the lofi balladry work of both 'No Sleep Until…' and 'Dear Life of Mine,' and then the pace is picked up for the perky 'Karma Chaos.'

The album then rounds out with a couple more ballads in the form of the lush orchestrations of 'Today I Looked At Love' and the ornate magnificence of 'So This Is Love,' which bring to a close an album that not only uplifts the soul and spirit within the listener, but ensures they are also given a breath of fresh air in which to continue forth within.

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