The Lisa Hilton Quintet returns with Extended Daydream (Ruby Slippers Productions 1031) set for release on November 28th, 2025. The award-winning composer and acclaimed pianist generously shares the spotlight with her stellar bandmates on eleven standout tracks.

In a natural and genre-fluid approach, Hilton seamlessly combines the renowned 1959 jazz classic So What by Miles Davis alongside the 2024 tune Wildflower by singer/songwriter Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell, as well as nine of her own compositions.

If a daydream is a hopeful or insightful experience, the arc of Extended Daydream does extend hope and beauty along with a wallop of improvisational energy and style. Long a composer and pianist to watch, Hilton triumphs with this new genre fluid collection of cool jazz.

1. So What / 6:27 [Miles Davis]
2. Momentary Mystery / 6:19
3. Extended Daydream / 6:29
4. Tropical Tuesday / 6:20
5. It’s Just for Now / 4:24
6. Here & There & Back & Forth / 4:12
7. Blues on the Beach / 6:26
8. Seabirds / 4:54
9. Wildflower / 4:06 [Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell]
10. Sunset Tale / 4:50
11. Spacious Skies / 5:06

This beautifully crafted and expertly impassioned new recording opens on the silky smooth tones of Miles Davis’ cultured So What and then brings us her originals, such as the dreamy Momentary Mystery, the lavishly sculpted Extended Daydream, the upbeat and encouraging Tropical Tuesday and then we are brought forth the sweeping It’s Just for Now.

Along next is the spirited Here & There & Back & Forth and the emotively fervent Blues on the Beach and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the simply gorgeous Seabirds, and then Lisa shows her affective depth of emotion within her gorgeous rendition of Billie Eilish’s Wildflower, before the set rounds out on the sumptuous elegance of Sunset Tale, coming to a close on the gently graceful Spacious Skies.

Musicians:
Lisa Hilton | Piano
JD Allen – tenor saxophone
Igmar Thomas | trumpet
Luques Curtis | bass
Rudy Royston | drums

www.lisahiltonmusic.com