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Top 5 Best Vocal Release 2017! - The New York City Jazz Record
“Lillys and Hekselman’s arrangements reach almost the impossible of regenerating standards like the title track, “You Go To My Head”, “Skylark” and “Day Dream” to the point of ownership rather than reinterpretation” - The New York City Jazz Record
LILLY aka Lilly-Ann Hertzman (b. 1973) is a singer, songwriter and producer who has received great reviews for creating evocative songs and soundscapes of a rare kind and with a personal expression and sound. Her inspirations are many and goes across multiple genres with jazz and singer- songwriter as the main ones. Her origins also cross borders, with a mother from Japan and a father from Denmark.
Lilly has released four acclaimed albums. Two with own lyrics in English, Before The Crossing (2005) and Love Is A Sound (2009). Her third album, and the first with lyrics in Danish, was titled Menneskeblomst (2016), a selfinvented word that means Humanflower. The duoalbum, Tenderly feat. Gilad Hekselman (2017) , received rave reviews from USA, Germany and Denmark, and was chosen as TOP 5 BEST VOCAL RELEASE 2017 by The New York City Jazz Record.
Lilly is educated from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark, from the department of music & movement, and has played, recorded and collaborated with some of the finest, most talented and versatile creative musicians in Scandinavia, Europe and US. Among others Lew Soloff (US), Aaron Parks (US), Gilad Hekselman (ISR), Kirk KnuXe (US), Gustaf Ljunggren (S), Anders AC Christensen (DK), Jonas Berg (S), Jeppe Kjellberg (DK), Thommy Andersson (S), Krister Jonsson (S), Jacob Fischer (DK) a.o.
Now a new album is on the way. On August 1, 2019, Lilly was at the Big Orange Sheep Studio in Brooklyn, New York. Again with Gilad Hekselman (guitars and a little percussion), but also with Kirk Knuffke (cornet) on a number of the 10 songs. Both are critically acclaimed jazz musicians for their work in their own bands and as sidemen in all sorts of contexts. They live in New York and have been a part of the jazz scene there and around the world for more than a decade. It was a relaxed, fun and intense day together and the recordings of the eight jazz standards, a trad. folk song and one of Lilly ́'s own compositions therefore also bears the stamp of this open mood, playful approach and presence and give the songs a special glow.
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LILLY: Tenderly featuring Gilad Hekselman
by Jakob Baekgaard
It all starts with a song. Two people and song. Gilad and Lilly. Guitarist and singer. One visiting Denmark as an artist in residence and the other living there. One among the foremost exponents of modern jazz guitar and the other an acclaimed vocalist and singer/songwriter, but still a secret outside her country. Here they are on the album Tenderly. The result of a day's work in the studio with songs that are the work of a ...
read moreNew England Conservatory Grads Perform Triple Bill at the Lilly Pad (Cambridge, MA)
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All About Jazz
They once were classmates at the prestigous New England Conservatory in Boston. Now the Quartet of Happiness, Colin Stack Novelty Act, and the Daniel Bennett Group will reunite for a triple bill concert on March 31 at the Lilly Pad in Inman Square, Cambridge.
The Quartet of Happiness is a performance-art oriented band featuring Rick Stone, Kelly Roberge, Austin McMahon, and Kendall Eddy. Colin Stack was a composition major at NEC. Now his new group Novelty Act performs his brand ...
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“The voice and the guitar is like a match made in heaven” — ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 STARS in Danish music magazine GAFFA
"Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass set the bar high for guitar-vocal duos. Danish singer LILLY (-Ann Hertzman) and guitarist Gilad Hekselman touch that bar with Tenderly."” — ALL ABOUT JAZZ
“Lillys and Hekselman’s arrangements reach almost the impossible of regenerating standards like the title track, “You Go To My Head”, “Skylark” and “Day Dream” to the point of ownership rather than reinterpretation” — THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD, Feb 2018 Issue
Chet Baker
trumpet and vocals
Frank Sinatra
vocals
Bill Evans
piano
Billie Holiday
vocals
Shirley Horn
piano
Abbey Lincoln
vocals
Pat Metheny
guitar
