tag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:/blogs/latest-news?p=1Latest News2022-11-23T20:00:00+01:00LILLYfalsetag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/71178322022-11-23T20:00:00+01:002023-10-16T16:49:23+02:00DANISH MUSIC AWARDS JAZZ 2022<p>✨ Two weeks from today on Dec 7th I’ll be playing duo with Gilad Hekselman at Danish Music Awards Jazz 2022 at Musikhuset Aarhus. Looking forward to it! 🎶✨ #DMAJazz2022 #Aarhus #JazzDanmark #MusicCityAarhus #MusikhusetAarhus #Lilly feat. #GiladHekselman</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/383e6f41c0d7c3323cb0548e640276649012159d/original/d2120d9c-e0b6-4123-befa-623de9519000.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/70804042022-08-28T09:00:00+02:002022-10-13T09:40:11+02:00DUO TOUR IN SOUTH KOREA & JAPAN / AUG 28 - SEP 11 2022! ❤️🎶💥🙏🇰🇷🇯🇵<p><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/648dc4f43d0fdb65b5d022e107240cc0f88cbc1b/original/0e24cc9b-019e-4ebb-9834-cc643e65cf5c.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/69496302022-04-14T10:05:00+02:002022-05-22T20:01:46+02:00Big portrait in Jazz Special, the Danish jazz magazine <p>Very happy that Jazz Special, the Danish jazz Magazine, has chosen to feature a big article about me in their new edition ☺️🙏❤️🎶 </p>
<p>Thanks a lot to Birger Thøgersen for reaching out to me and for writing this portrait conveying some of the things on my journey in music that has occurred, inspired and shaped me so far. Of course it’s only a handful of one’s life that can be included, so not all people, things and facts are mentioned here. But I would like to take the opportunity to say thank you to everyone I have met on my way in music and life, and to everyone who have chosen and choose to listen to my music. I am truly grateful ❤️🙏🎶 </p>
<p>#jazzspecial #jazzmagazine </p>
<p>#portrait #grateful #lilly #jazzvocalist #songwriter #lillysongs.com</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/f2e2aba732076dbd73d16c4378666e537bfb8ad5/original/79fca905-eca7-43d0-9ef2-f2f0f6d3bc93.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/befa627a4ada69be8c6af3e39080c29ed3cd48d3/original/381ab4f6-fe84-4591-8b47-08a48cdc9b3b.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/92ba182565ccbaf385ede689a89e9181a3b1f8aa/original/afc101a1-ee40-43cc-8ee1-c760ebf7eea9.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/68817962022-01-28T09:00:00+01:002022-04-26T17:12:36+02:00COPENHAGEN TODAY at JAZZCUP: LILLY feat. MADS OLE ERHARDSEN & THOMAS SEJTHEN <p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/eb630656e9dc41008a80a9723a1697c34d7ae4cb/original/7a663dae-0a31-4b0f-9dde-f8dd58420ab1.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p>COPENHAGEN! ❤️<br> Looking very much forward to play this afternoon at JazzCup from 15.30-18 with these two wonderful musicians and human beings: Mads Ole Erhardsen (tenor saxophone) and Thomas Sejthen (double bass).. I HOPE TO SEE YOU ! </p>
<p>Much love, Lilly ❤️<br> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/67915242021-10-30T11:59:24+02:002021-10-30T12:03:25+02:00NOVEMBER CONCERTS! (DK & GERMANY) 🎶💥🍁 ✨<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/c8bf066e7ccdcdd256b85be52ecedf595555b53d/original/e96dbdab-4e03-4737-a63e-aac04c57843b.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>NEXT WEEK…Nov 2 - 5!!🎶🍁💥🔥 </p>
<p>✨ LILLY feat. GILAD HEKSELMAN & KIRK KNUFFKE ✨ </p>
<p>💥 Nov 2, DEXTER, Odense </p>
<p>💥 Nov 3, JAZZCENTRET, Aalborg </p>
<p>💥 Nov 4, VIFTEN, Rødovre </p>
<p>💥 Nov 5, NICOLAISAAL, Potsdam, Berlin </p>
<p>After five wonderful concerts in DK in September, Gilad and Kirk, will be back for the part 2 of the postponed releasetour for the album, The Song Is You, that was released by Challenge Records/Double Moon in spring. </p>
<p>I hope to see you!! </p>
<p>Much love, </p>
<p>Lilly ❤️ </p>
<p>Here below are a few words about the album that was very wellreceived by the press. More info at https://www.lillysongs.com/news </p>
<p>“Authenticity, intensity and nerve” / </p>
<p>GAFFA ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ </p>
<p>“ her interpretations offer an emotionally deep, truthful view, due to which these standards thus become her own songs” / Jazzthing, Germany </p>
<p>““Fresh interpretations of the great American songbook” / Politiken ❤️❤️❤️❤️ </p>
<p>“ LILLY: The Song is you | <br>Charming, fresh and airy, but also profound and full of delicate power, that's how the music of Lilly sounds. <br>(…) Lilly has taken the title to heart. She becomes one with these jazz songs. The singer has created very personal interpretations together with the Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman and the US cornet player Kirk Knuffke. Hekselman in particular becomes a perfect one-man orchestra on the album: rhythm, harmony, even melody and atmosphere, he delivers all this with brilliant ease and pithy grounding. Kirk Knuffke's cornet adds a tastefully tense tonal spice. A lively, extremely appealing album is what Lilly's "The song is you" has become. A discovery worth making!" </p>
<p>/ Bayerisher Rundfunk -Klassik/Jazztime </p>
<p>“Lilly tells with her warm voice and her heartfelt expression that she is able to give these immortal songs, which have been recorded thousands of times, something deeply personal” / Tor Hammerø, Nettavisen & Tor de Jazz, Norge </p>
<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/67230682021-08-20T23:15:00+02:002022-01-22T20:29:49+01:00🎈 The Asiaproject 2021-23! ✨🎶 <p>MORE GREAT NEWS! 🔥</p>
<p>Two days after my first CD release in Japan.. I am VERY HAPPY to announce that I have been selected by an international jury from Japan, China and South Korea to be one of three new participants of The Asiaproject (2021-23) by JazzDanmark! 🎉 </p>
<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH! 🙏 I am very grateful, exited and happy and I am looking forward to it all! 🥳🎶 </p>
<p>Much love, Lilly ❤️ </p>
<p>#jazzdanmark #asienprojektet #jazz #internationalpanel #japan #china #southkorea #grateful #happy #exited #lifeonearth </p>
<p>P.S. </p>
<p>More info in the link below.. in Danish though 😘</p>
<p><a contents="https://jazzdanmark.dk/artikler/asienprojektet-sidste-deltagere-er-fundet" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jazzdanmark.dk/artikler/asienprojektet-sidste-deltagere-er-fundet" target="_blank">https://jazzdanmark.dk/artikler/asienprojektet-sidste-deltagere-er-fundet</a></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/b0b672d44a3fe8736b58d39ddbd6d67df96fbf34/original/0dda1121-744e-42c0-971a-f94867459aa0.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>
<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/67220632021-08-18T11:35:00+02:002022-03-30T10:48:21+02:00CD RELEASE IN JAPAN!! ✨🎉🇯🇵📀❤️<p>✨TODAY… TENDERLY feat. Gilad Hekselman is released by Disk Union in Japan 🇯🇵🎶🎉 via their jazz label, Somethin’ Cool! 🐾 </p>
<p>I am VERY happy and exited to annonce this! I released this album digitally in 2017 and it received rave reviews in the US and Denmark. It was a.o. also selected as TOP 5 BEST VOCAL RELEASE 2017 by The New York City Jazz Record 🙏✨ </p>
<p>So, it’s really nice that anyone who have asked for a CD copy are now able to get hold of one 📀.. and of course also that it is now available in CD stores in Japan! 🇯🇵🙌 Hopefully many Japanese people will find their way to it! It’s also possible to order via Amazon e.g. … the cover- and linernotes are in Japanese though ☺️ I am looking forward to come and play in-store concerts a.o. one fine day, when the pandemic situation in Japan allows it again! 🎶 Until then… please feel free to enjoy it (also) on CD now! 📀 … and stay tuned for more news soon about a.o. upcoming concerts in Denmark & Germany, Sep 8-12 & Nov 2-5 with Gilad Hekselman & Kirk Knuffke! 🎶💥💥 </p>
<p>Much love, Lilly🤗❤️ </p>
<p>https://diskunion.net/jazz/ct/detail/1008325127 </p>
<p>#JAPAN #CDRELEASE #DISKUNION #SOMETHINCOOL #JAZZ #TENDERLY</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/05e510be8a1761faac6855d8d0afed9954499c4f/original/e0d810af-a37e-4d84-ac94-78ebdb999d93.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_left border_none" alt="Here is a photo of the Disk Union Kichijoji store." /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/550dc6b4e49d68ccee3c1954587c28b40eef6e05/original/8aa33899-e705-4b68-9042-02fc465f0439.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_left border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/ad83be5bc020f55e35032d21a23fb54ea903d4e7/original/b232782d-d63c-4499-aa24-7a91e6fd3db8.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_left border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/d1556c113e669926de6afa5f44d9fe11ef23a1a7/original/1932edba-43f3-4f66-ac84-2f851c18d32d.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_left border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/39fa4ff173799c3ac4604d475ec32e952a00965b/original/1846ea57-179b-4da9-8e0f-cc652a713d59.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpeg" class="size_l justify_left border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/a9a6a0f55049560657b3a935d69204491a2f5dc3/original/b0ed5006-df2b-43b7-9356-6be00646f63c.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpeg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/67220622021-07-30T14:15:00+02:002021-08-20T10:19:44+02:00THANK YOU GRENAA!! ❤️ 🎶✨ What a F A N T A S T I C night yesterday in the silo on the harbour! ✨🌊 <p>🎶✨🌊 What a beautiful first concert with these two fabulous musicians and an audience that gave us a standing ovation 💥💥💥 I am SO grateful! 🙏 Much love, Lilly ❤️ </p>
<p>#jazz #music #grenaa #silo #Pavillonen #summertime #premiere #newconstellation #songwriters #newlyrics #evergreensinnewcolours #playfullness #joy #lilly #vocal #madsoleerhardsen #tenorsax #newcrooner #drummer #thomassejthen #doublebass #grateful #lifeonearth #❤️<br> </p>
<p>✨LILLY (vocals) feat.✨MADS OLE ERHARDSEN (tenor sax, vocal, drums) & ✨THOMAS SEJTHEN (double bass)</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/6f88dda796560d248db750220b87669b578e185e/original/917b612f-6973-4468-9e51-4f6545281be0.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/98049201f74a861eb971e731cdb04796a505f7bf/original/b16afe4f-f8dc-4453-8975-6fcc11d95b15.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/f13bf2686413b1e32c89764b2df8d08c8795c6bc/original/e0e8b205-97ab-43b9-8e02-0d95748bc8b9.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/9f33949658f08ea4b0e7360b3dfe59dc7ec60d93/original/bec35068-7ae0-4014-af6a-9d6e1d4f9c6d.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />✨LILLY (vocals) feat.✨MADS OLE ERHARDSEN (tenor sax, vocal, drums) & ✨THOMAS SEJTHEN (double bass)</p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/67220472021-07-27T09:00:00+02:002021-08-20T09:50:22+02:00NEW EXITING COLLABORATON: Premiere concert July 29th ✨LILLY (vocals) feat.✨MADS OLE ERHARDSEN (tenor sax, vocal, drums) & ✨THOMAS SEJTHEN (double bass) <p>Yay! NOW on THURSDAY 29 JULY at 19! In Grenå, in the silo at the harbor! 🎶🌊💥 </p>
<p>Don’t miss this brand new and exciting musical collaboration that can be experienced in the summer evening light for the first time! </p>
<p>Hope to see you! ❤️ Love, Lilly<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/7a45825e19478782bdce8705c0eaa70ea7c0b899/original/lilly-vocal-feat-mads-ole-erhardsen-sax-thomas-sejthen-bas.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>✨LILLY (vocals) feat.✨MADS OLE ERHARDSEN (tenor sax, vocal, drums) & ✨THOMAS SEJTHEN (double bass) </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/66727742021-06-01T12:00:00+02:002021-06-28T16:03:18+02:00Special intimkoncert: Lilly (vokal) feat. Uffe Steen (guitar) & Thomas Sejthen (kontrabas) / SOLD OUT!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/d8b58a079b935ab871bacd4b8f729ed6950b57be/original/0626ab9d-1975-4bd7-945b-a4e094f58852.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/9a953f2efc7f8eca4fc43c6329ee1d75310f92b0/original/f4d99719-c242-4f36-b97a-fa9c2d54c6c5.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/58f889ebee4a5f156c0c2868bbc5f4b4f105623c/original/c39e313d-e369-4dc1-b085-a86563ff1d69.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/66178632021-04-30T10:53:42+02:002022-01-28T17:20:03+01:00HAPPY INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY! 🎶🌎🎉 I am very happy and grateful to be presented by JazzDayGermay 2021 as one of 50 Jazz artists!🙏❤️<p>I am very happy and grateful to be presented as one of 50 jazz artists by JazzDayGermany that a.o. have this beautiful statement: “Together with musicians from Germany, German-speaking countries, many others from Europe and all over the world, we want to show how diverse, creative, inspiring and entrancing jazz music can be. So we celebrate the day that is "our'" day: International Jazz Day together with the whole world.” </p>
<p>This year they also cooperate with Jazzahead (tradefair and festival). </p>
<p>I am looking forward to check out the other jazz artists that I am featured among! You can check it out also here:<a contents="https://www.jazzdaygermany.de/home.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.jazzdaygermany.de/home.html" target="_blank">https://www.jazzdaygermany.de/home.html</a></p>
<p>Much love,</p>
<p>Lilly ❤️</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/88928829f2688d50281cb10e096e2021e2dd7d2c/original/f74d1d01-b38b-4c6a-9289-51af51bb5d02.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/66057492021-04-14T14:00:00+02:002021-05-02T08:04:59+02:00AWESOME presentation, talk and text from Bayerisher Rundfunk - klassik / Jazztime! ❤️🎶🙏✨<p>Thanks a lot, Bayerisher Rundfunk - Klassik / Jazztime for featuring and speaking so nicely and enthusiastically about my new album, The Song Is You, feat. Gilad Hekselman & Kirk Knuffke! I at least understood the word... „grossartig“ ☺️... but after one more listen, I now also heard expressions like: “sensationell schön“... „personality pure“... „unmittelbar“.. „unverkünstlich“ 🙏❤️ If you understand (some) German like me (or maybe just enjoy to listen to it), then you can listen to the talk between Beate Sampson, Roland Spiegel and Ulli Habersetzer from about 44:17. <br>Here’s the link:<br><a contents="https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/jazz-und-weltmusik/hoeren-wir-gutes-13042021-jazztime-100.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/jazz-und-weltmusik/hoeren-wir-gutes-13042021-jazztime-100.html" target="_blank">https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/jazz-und-weltmusik/hoeren-wir-gutes-13042021-jazztime-100.html</a><br>The program should be available for a week! ☀️🌱🌸 <br><br>They also wrote very nicely about it on the program-website. Here is a translation in English:</p>
<p><i>"LILLY: The Song is you | <br>Charming, fresh and airy, but also profound and full of delicate power, that's how the music of Lilly sounds. <br>Lilly-Ann Hertzmann, singer from Denmark, has named her new album "The Song is you" and on it there are mainly jazz standards. And: Lilly has taken the title to heart. She becomes one with these jazz songs. The singer has created very personal interpretations together with the Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman and the US cornet player Kirk Knuffke. Hekselman in particular becomes a perfect one-man orchestra on the album: rhythm, harmony, even melody and atmosphere, he delivers all this with brilliant ease and pithy grounding. Kirk Knuffke's cornet adds a tastefully tense tonal spice. A lively, extremely appealing album is what Lilly's "The song is you" has become. A discovery worth making!"</i></p>
<p>Thanks a lot also for those fine words! 🙏❤️ See German text on the photo below or via the link above. <br> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/e028be0cfd1abb7ec16f947ab8964f2b8c9aec70/original/aa3b5349-10b1-43ce-8d84-da4a54ccd3a3.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/66037412021-04-08T14:00:00+02:002022-01-31T16:57:51+01:00❤️❤️❤️❤️ four fine hearts from POLITIKEN!<p> </p>
<p>THANK YOU, Henrik Palle, for repeated listening and fine and whimsical writing about my new album, The Song Is You, feat. Gilad Hekselman & Kirk Knuffke in todays POLITIKEN! It's a lot more column space than I had dared to hope for ... and in 2021 with all the great music from amazing musicians released every single day! 💥🎶🌏 I'm happy and grateful to have the honor today 🤗🙏❤️ </p>
<p>Link to review in the digital Politiken: <a contents="https://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/art8144526/Hendes-nye-plade-kan-meget-vel-blive-en-af-forårets-favoritter" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/art8144526/Hendes-nye-plade-kan-meget-vel-blive-en-af-for%C3%A5rets-favoritter" target="_blank">https://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/art8144526/Hendes-nye-plade-kan-meget-vel-blive-en-af-forårets-favoritter</a></p>
<p>Here is a translation: </p>
<p>“Fresh interpretations of the great American songbook. </p>
<p>Vocalist Lilly interprets low-key iconic standards and manages to coax new aspects and add something new - thanks in part to elegant accompaniment by guitar and cornet. </p>
<p>It's brave what Danish vocalist Lilly tries on her latest longplayer. In more ways than one. </p>
<p>Firstly, it's cheeky to name the release after the standard 'The Song Is You', that wonderful 1932 ballad written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein for the show 'Music In The Air'. For 55 years ago, another Danish (though Portuguese-born) legend, Pedro Biker, released an album of the same title - and it's an unobtainable cult classic, costing the same as a Y chair in a reasonably playable vinyl copy. So those are big shoes to step into, one must say. </p>
<p>Secondly, The Great American Songbook is such a thoroughly anthological phenomenon that one can get quite weary just thinking about yet another rendering of its greatest hits, 'That Old Feeling' (which Chet Baker delivered a somewhat definitive version of on 'Chet Baker Sings' way back in 1954) or the title track, which in addition to Biker also has a certain Frank Sinatra on the list of interpreters. Just to name a few. </p>
<p>Fortunately, you can pack your anxiety and ennui away in the drag box. For while Lilly may not revolutionize the way we look at the songs we know and love, she and her musical cronies perform them with an immediacy and a willingness to tune out the minutiae that actually makes them sound fresh and anything but spoiled. That in itself is a commendable achievement, when the field of both standards interpreters and jazz vocalists is so strong, historic and current. </p>
<p>Lilly, whose name on her birth certificate is Lilly-Ann Hertzman and who has several highly acclaimed albums to her credit, joins quite a broad musical stream as a vocalist: her bright voice and artless, clean delivery speak of kinship with Monica Zetterlund, our own Lise Reinau and other voices. </p>
<p>Her strength is not so much a strong swinging attack, but an ingratiating and melodic approach to the material. She sings the songs without deconstructive mannerisms or contrived rephrasings. And there's no need to knock her for that when we're dealing with evergreens that have long since proven their worth beyond the individual vocalist or arranger. </p>
<p>Guitarist Gilad Hekselman stands distinguished beside her with his extremely calm, pristine and thoughtful guitar playing. Like her, he doesn't strain unnecessarily to twist melodies out of joint, creating never-before-heard sounds and tones. In return, he creates low-key beauty that almost makes your eardrums spin like a cuddly cat. </p>
<p>It's just so delicious to listen to, and when cornet player Kirk Knuffke, who is no stranger to Danish jazz listeners, among other things because of his fine collaboration with the New Jungle Orchestra, joins in the fun with his discreet modernism and soft tone, the music lifts itself a level. </p>
<p>That's the detail </p>
<p>Very often the payoff is in the detail on second listen. As when Freddie Hubbard's - indeed, not just the most obvious stuff from the treasure chest of songs - 'Up Jumped Spring' is given some subtle colouratura as a musical counterpoint to the melody line. Elsewhere, listen out for Hekselman's percussion work, which is also both funky shit and elegant pulse underscoring. </p>
<p>Most original is probably the version of the folk classic 'Scarborough Fair', which makes most people think of the pop duo Simon & Garfunkel and their 1966 LP 'Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme'. But it's a good one to forget. Instead, the traditional song is served up in an ethereal-sounding version, with Knuffke's spiritual horn bringing to mind our own Palle Mikkelborg. Hekselman creates an edge, and everything blends into a wonderful whole. </p>
<p>Lilly is also a fine songwriter. And her 'Five Wild Geese' is an example of that. </p>
<p>It's a lovely record, nothing less. It may well become a regular on the stereo in the coming months, when the sun is gaining strength and the world is opening up, poof by poof, pleasantly but without chasing”</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/747d69bc7ef453d5bc8e66a58a20199cac06b1a2/original/865eb0a0-b753-42f1-b6f2-90dae1010b9f.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/66057642021-04-08T10:10:00+02:002021-04-16T14:47:50+02:00GREAT review from Norway by Tor Hammerø! 🎶🙏❤️🤗<p>THANK YOU, Tor Hammerø! ❤️🙏 I am very happy and grateful that, The Song Is You, has received a very nice and fine review from Norway.. and it’s actually also my first ever from this beautiful and jazzloving country 🎶☀️🌱🏔🤗 </p>
<p>It is pusblished in Nettavisen here: <a contents="https://www.nettavisen.no/plateanmeldelse/musikk/jazz/flott-ny-stemme/r/5-95-212233?fbclid=IwAR1K0ShcgOHLINUKlOKC3Kb7lJjPNt6sBv9Zz8rAKK0LYyZmn4Sc4---NGo" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nettavisen.no/plateanmeldelse/musikk/jazz/flott-ny-stemme/r/5-95-212233?fbclid=IwAR1K0ShcgOHLINUKlOKC3Kb7lJjPNt6sBv9Zz8rAKK0LYyZmn4Sc4---NGo" target="_blank">https://www.nettavisen.no/plateanmeldelse/musikk/jazz/flott-ny-stemme/r/5-95-212233?fbclid=IwAR1K0ShcgOHLINUKlOKC3Kb7lJjPNt6sBv9Zz8rAKK0LYyZmn4Sc4---NGo</a></p>
<p>But, it can also be found here at Tor De Jazz 😘 <a contents="https://torhammero.blogg.no/flott-ny-stemme-4.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://torhammero.blogg.no/flott-ny-stemme-4.html" target="_blank">https://torhammero.blogg.no/flott-ny-stemme-4.html</a> from where I add the photo-collage below.</p>
<p>Here is an translation to English: </p>
<p>“<i>GREAT «NEW» VOICE <br> Never heard of the Danish vocalist Lilly before? Take it easy - then we are at least two. Now you are warned anyway: she is well worth spending quality time with. </i></p>
<p><i>Increasingly, Tor de Jazz is also being noticed far beyond the country's borders. It is of course nice and it has, among other things, led to the meeting with Lilly, who will probably react if she is accused as Lilly-Ann Hertzman as well. It has actually been a very pleasant meeting. </i></p>
<p><i> Lilly (47) has had four releases on her conscience since 2006. Much of the material has previously been written by Lilly and one of the albums, "Menneskeblomst", consists of Danish lyrics. On her previous album, "Tenderly" from 2017, it was one of her great musical loves, the American songbook, that was on the repertoire. </i></p>
<p><i> The brilliant Israeli but US-resident guitarist Gilad Hekselman was Lilly's only travel companion on "Tenderly", but it was obviously tempting to repeat and when Lilly set course for New York in late summer 2019, Hekselman was booked again for completely understandable reasons. </i></p>
<p><i> This time, the exclusive duo has been expanded to a trio of seven of the ten songs. Top-class cornet player, Kirk Knuffke, whom we recently met in another exquisite trio collaboration with Thommy Andersson and Josefine Cronholm, gives this treasure exactly the personal spice it asks for every time he puts the cornet to his lips. </i></p>
<p><i> With eight standard songs such as "If You Could See Me Now", "It Might as Well Be Spring" and Horace Silver's "Lonely Woman", as well as an original song and a beautiful version of the trad song "Scarborough Fair", Lilly tells with her warm voice and her heartfelt expression that she is able to give these immortal songs, which have been recorded thousands of times, something deeply personal. </i></p>
<p><i> Hekselman, on both electric and acoustic guitar, is so definitely helping to lift the treasure to new places and that it was a warm, relaxed, but at the same time ambitious atmosphere in the studio in Brooklyn the day it was recorded, comes out very clearly through the speakers . </i></p>
<p><i> So it took a while before Lilly's and my paths crossed. It was very high time it should show. "The Song Is You" is timeless music for all seasons and for many years.”</i></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/ee5f2bf0775ef356d60a33f3378a4042f78a817f/original/3c64764f-ac9f-4a24-83c8-4410595cf443.jpeg/!!/b:W1sidCIsOTBdXQ==.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/66057122021-04-03T11:00:00+02:002021-05-02T08:58:21+02:00Another GREAT review from Germany! 🎶🙏❤️💥 This time from Musikansich.de <p>Thanks a lot to Wolfgang Giese from Musicansich.de! The new album, The Song Is You, is rated 17 out of 20, and so is placed in the category: Sehr empfehlenswert, that means: Highly Recommended! <br>But...furthermore it receives a really nice and thorough review as well! Here is the link to the review in German: <a contents="https://www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=22117 " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=22117" target="_blank">https://www.musikansich.de/review.php?id=22117 </a> <br> </p>
<p>Here is an English translation:</p>
<p><i>The subtitle reads: "Feat. Gilad Hekselman & Kirk Knuffke. Yes, there are <br>three of them. Lilly, real name Lilly-Ann Hertzman is a singer, songwriter <br>and producer. She hails from Denmark, a child of Japanese and Danish <br>parents. Her influences range from jazz to the singer/songwriter genre and <br>folk to pop. </i></p>
<p><i>She has been releasing records regularly since 2015, in both English and <br>Danish. Most recently, there was a duo album with guitarist Gilad Hekselman <br>in 2017. The Israeli-born musician is also on board for The Song Is You, as <br>is U.S. cornet player Kirk Knuffke. </i></p>
<p><i>What is striking about the album's song selection is that, with the <br>exception of two tracks ("Scarborough Fair" - a traditional and "Five Wild <br>Geese" - an original composition), it consists exclusively of jazz <br>standards. And that usually requires a good hand, especially since as a <br>listener one may often be inclined to go with originals or other well-known <br>interpretations. And so I find it very gratifying that the three don't cling <br>tightly and rigidly to well-known versions of the standards in question, but <br>invest their own imaginations to create individual interpretations. </i></p>
<p><i>"If You Could See Me Now" starts as a pure vocal-guitar duet, with Gilad <br>Hekselman adding a special accent with his acoustic guitar. This is <br>extremely sensitively done, the delicate, soft and smooth voice nestling <br>with the guitar to form a whole, quite dreamy and encouraging to let the <br>thoughts fly. </i></p>
<p><i>"Up Jumped Spring" is one of the seven entries for cornetist Kirk Knuffke, <br>the other three songs are in duet format. This lightly lilting song shows <br>Hekselman deftly embellishing the arrangement while also taking on a strong <br>rhythmic role. And on top of that, he sensitively accommodates his solo <br>work, giving the song a playful and wide-ranging expression through the <br>various facets of his guitar playing. </i></p>
<p><i>And so all the remaining songs are also strongly marked by the versatility <br>and wide range of guitarist Hekselman. From my point of view Lilly carries <br>different elements of expression, from jazz sometimes Abbey Lincoln comes to <br>the fore, but also the folky variant of a Joni Mitchell should be <br>considered. All songs have in common that the protagonist conveys a strong <br>emotional impression through her very sensitive voice, very personally <br>marked. And this comes especially to the fore in the original composition <br>"Five Wild Geese". Here, the various musical influences are very aptly <br>matched and merged. </i></p>
<p><i>Kirk Knuffke always brings the strongest jazz part into the songs with his <br>contributions, influenced by modern oriented trumpet/cornet players. For <br>example, he is instrumental in "modernizing" Duke Ellington's very familiar <br>standard, "Prelude To A Kiss." "Scarborough Fair," the traditional English <br>tune, has become one of the most unusual songs on the album. The origin of <br>the song in the Middle Ages, including the atmosphere of that time, is <br>transferred to the present time with what we know from the interpretation of <br>Simon & Garfunkel, enriched with jazz, to a very individual sound.</i></p>
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<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/66056972021-04-02T22:50:00+02:002021-04-16T14:57:12+02:00More nice words from Germany.. this time from Jazz-Fun.de! 🎶🙏☀️❤️<p>Thanks a lot, Jazz-Fun for really nice words about the new album! <br> Here translated to English: </p>
<p>Jazz-fun.de thinks:<br>“<em>Lilly uses musical language in an extremely delicate way, not imposing her version of the story, but using the magic of mood and climate. The album offers us a variety of jazz experiences on a very high artistic level</em>” / jazz-fun.de</p>
<p>Here in German...<br>jazz-fun.de meint: <br><em>“Lilly nutzt die musikalische Sprache auf äußerst delikate Weise, indem sie ihre Version der Geschichte nicht aufdrängt, sondern die Magie von Stimmung und Klima nutzt. Das Album bietet uns eine Vielfalt an Jazzerlebnissen auf einem sehr hohen künstlerischen Niveau”.</em></p>
<p>Here is the direct link to the full feature in German: <a contents="https://www.jazz-fun.de/lilly-feat-gilad-hekselman-kirk-knuffke-the-song-is-you.html " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.jazz-fun.de/lilly-feat-gilad-hekselman-kirk-knuffke-the-song-is-you.html" target="_blank">https://www.jazz-fun.de/lilly-feat-gilad-hekselman-kirk-knuffke-the-song-is-you.html </a></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/02bc01fa522f5849850beffa9c2548798dccd2d4/original/7a958000-a2d6-43b5-8e67-4965014ee05c.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/66056442021-04-01T22:00:00+02:002021-04-16T12:57:55+02:00Really nice review from Jazz Thing in Germany! 🙏🎶❤️<p>Thanks a lot, Jazz thing, for a very nice and first review from Germany!</p>
<p>Below is a screenshot from the site. Here is the direct link <a contents="https://www.jazzthing.de/review/lilly-the-song-is-you/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.jazzthing.de/review/lilly-the-song-is-you/" target="_blank">https://www.jazzthing.de/review/lilly-the-song-is-you/</a></p>
<p>Here is a translation to English:</p>
<p>“Once again an album on which jazz standards are sung. But in contrast to some other colleagues, the Japanese-Danish singer Lilly and her two New York accompanists Gilad Hekselman (guitar) and Kirk Knuffke (cornet) show that in this so-called supreme discipline of jazz, the motto should always be empathy, surprise and also another level of interpretation. For when an artist dares to tackle such songs as "My Foolish Heart", "Prelude To A Kiss", "That Old Feeling" or "The Song Is You", he wants to emphasize the substance or essence of the song, but ideally also to make a piece sound not immediately recognizable or old-fashioned. Lilly, aka Lilly-Ann Hertzman, succeeds in this, her versions present themselves as artistic with a personal expression. Therefore, her interpretations offer an emotionally deep, truthful view, due to which these standards thus become her own songs. “ / Olaf Maikopf, Jazz thing 138</p>
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<p><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/7a40cc928ae9886a4f4ee85551e036cca51ccf9f/original/bfa98d5f-e5b0-412b-b214-61e362ff964a.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/65856832021-03-26T21:00:00+01:002021-04-16T11:21:27+02:00⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars from GAFFA to THE SONG IS YOU!<p><br>Thank you very much, Ivan Rod / GAFFA (major Danish Musicmagazine)!<br>5 STARS on the releaseday! 🙏🎶⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to the new album, The Song Is You, feat. Gilad Hekselman & Kirk Knuffke. </p>
<p>Here is a link to it in Danish <a contents="https://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/148338/anmeldelse-stilsikkert-smukt-vokaljazzalbum/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/148338/anmeldelse-stilsikkert-smukt-vokaljazzalbum/" target="_blank">https://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/148338/anmeldelse-stilsikkert-smukt-vokaljazzalbum/</a> </p>
<p>Below is also a photo of it.</p>
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<p>Here is a translation in English:</p>
<p>Lilly: The Song Is You <br><br>REVIEW: Stylish, beautiful vocal jazz album <br>GAFFA </p>
<p>Album / Challenge Records <br>Release D. 26.03.2021 <br>Reviewed by <br>Ivan Rod </p>
<p>When Danish/Japanese singer-songwriter/jazz composer and vocalist Lilly-Ann Hertzman released her fourth album, Tenderly, in 2017, it was to overwhelming applause. Critics on several continents deservedly praised her to the skies for the duo album, which featured standards and a collaboration with Israeli/American jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman. </p>
<p>On her new album, The Song Is You, she is heard again collaborating with Gilad Hekselman, but now also with American cornetist Kirk Knuffke. Again with a simple expression, again with material that consists predominantly of American standards. And again-again with mature gravity, sensuality and character. It's as if Lilly, along with Hekselman - and now Knuffke - has found an authenticity, intensity and nerve that suits her, the songs and the music. The Song Is You is immensely successful for the same reason. Another small work (in a series of releases that should not be put to rest. May Lilly and Hekselman continue their collaboration for many years to come). </p>
<p>The new album features a single song of its own, "Five Wild Geese," which is bold and thoroughly beautiful, and which suits all the other songs from the Great American Songbook with its refreshing pulse. But also noteworthy are Lilly's versions of songs like Victor Young and Ned Washington's "My Foolish Heart," Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein's "It Might As Well Be Spring" and Duke Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss," and indeed of the old British/Scottish folk song, "Scarborough Fair" (immortalized by Simon & Garfunkel in 1968). </p>
<p>Lilly-Ann Hertzman has an incredibly good and seemingly natural grip on the songs/ballads. It's as if they are part of her own musical DNA. As if their swing leans on her own swing. As if her voice is made for them or vice versa. And it's as if her collaboration with Gilad Hekselman is a perfect match. Her warm vocals sneak up on his string playing easily and beautifully. And now, Knuffke's tone as well. </p>
<p>Considering that the entire album was recorded in just one day in New York, one has to take off one's hat and admire the musicality and virtuosity of the three, their respective, innovative starting points and their ability to work together when the record button is activated.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/4f95fd23282683f2a37394dc6193bf439abe391c/original/83f7b44c-68b1-4c0b-bc24-71b2671fe2de.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/65856772021-03-26T17:53:15+01:002021-04-16T11:24:17+02:00ALBUMRELEASE TODAY... two great reviews! 🎶🙏❤️<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/703cb7913f9917a495643c18e421daef6ce23719/original/dmchr-71386-cover-tb.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_none" alt="" />YAY!! It’s RELEASEDAY of my new album ::: The Song Is You ::: LILLY feat. GILAD HEKSELMAN & KIRK KNUFFKE . </p>
<p>It’s available on CD+digital via Challenge Records International / trademark Double Moon Records. Listen here: https://orcd.co/bvyexkg </p>
<p>Two nice album-birthday reviews: </p>
<p>***** 5 STARS today from Danish GAFFA /Ivan Rod, that a.o. write: ““Lilly-Ann Hertzman has an incredibly good and seemingly natural grip on the songs / ballads. It's as if they're part of her own musical DNA. As if their swing leans up against her own swing. As if her voice is created for them or vice versa. And then it's as if her collaboration with Gilad Hekselman is a perfect match. Her warm vocals snuggle lightly and beautifully up his string playing. And now also up to Knuffke's tone. </p>
<p>Given that the entire album was recorded in just one day in New York, one must take one's hat off and admire the musicality and virtuosity of the three, their respective, innovative starting point and their ability to collaborate when the record button is activated.” </p>
<p>(Thanks to Google translate </p>
<p>Read the full review here in Danish: https://gaffa.dk/.../anmeldelse-stilsikkert-smukt... </p>
<p>And..also, Jazz Thing in Germany are happy: “ Once again an album on which jazz standards are sung. But in contrast to some other colleagues, the Japanese-Danish singer Lilly and her two New York accompanists Gilad Hekselman (guitar) and Kirk Knuffke (cornet) show that in this so-called supreme discipline of jazz, the motto should always be empathy, surprise and also another level of interpretation. For when an artist dares to tackle such songs as "My Foolish Heart", "Prelude To A Kiss", "That Old Feeling" or "The Song Is You", he wants to emphasize the substance or essence of the song, but ideally also to make a piece sound not immediately recognizable or old-fashioned. Lilly, aka Lilly-Ann Hertzman, succeeds in this, her versions present h themselves as artistic with a personal expression. Therefore, her interpretations offer an emotionally deep, truthful view, due to which these standards thus become her own songs. “/ Mai </p>
<p>(Thanks to Martina Weinmar for translation)</p>
<p>Here is a link to the review in German: https://www.jazzthing.de/review/lilly-the-song-is-you/</p>
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<p>I am very happy and grateful to be able to release these songs and I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I enjoyed recording them that fine first day of August 2019 in Brooklyn, New York with a bunch of fine human beings.. a couple of them being truly amazing musicians too. </p>
<p>Much love, </p>
<p>Lilly </p>
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<p>Recorded, mixed and mastered by Michael Perez-Cisneros at </p>
<p>Big Orange Sheep Studio, Brooklyn, NYC </p>
<p>Thanks a lot to everyone involved in making this release a reality: </p>
<p>First and foremost a very warm and big thank you to Gilad and Kirk. For the spirit of joy, playfulness, openness and dedication that I was so fortunate to experience when recording this album with you fabulous guys! I am so happy and grateful for that, and for all the creative musical gifts both of you so generously shared with me.</p>
<p>Mr. Awesome, Michael Perez-Cisneros. Big Orange Sheep Studio. </p>
<p>Patricia Frazao/ZenProduction for nice albumcover and Gulnara Khamatova for studio session photos. </p>
<p>Volker Dueck/ Double Moon Records & Martina Weinmar/ MaWeMarketing, </p>
<p>Boudewijn Hagemans & Sander Vos at Challenge Records International.</p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/65602692021-02-26T00:45:00+01:002021-02-27T11:51:14+01:00SINGLE RELEASE TODAY: UP JUMPED SPRING!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/afa7fa4f9860ce1cc7fb5ce8d6f4ed755377030b/original/4217f12c-b0ad-4e07-8429-fe7c464670f1.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>GOOD NEWS! 🎶🌱🌸🌞 Spring is just around the corner and I am very happy to release Up Jumped Spring as a single and appetizer from my new album, The Song Is You, that will be released in exactly a month from today! </p>
<p>'There’s a lot of joy and playfulness in this version, I think, not least thanks to the creative and versatile musical gifts from Gilad Hekselman, that’s playing both guitar and body percussion on this track, and Kirk Knuffke on cornet. I hope it will bring a spirit of spring to many hearts and souls! ❤️ Lilly</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR STREAMING / DOWLOAD CHOICES!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://orcd.co/4kjbpkq" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR STREAMING / DOWNLOAD CHOICES!</a></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/59832662019-09-01T13:45:00+02:002019-11-29T06:45:48+01:00NEW ALBUM RECORDED with GILAD HEKSELMAN & KIRK KNUFFKE in Brooklyn, New York!<p>On August 1st 2019 I had a really nice time making music with Gilad Hekselman and Kirk Knuffke in Big Orange Sheep Studio in Brooklyn, New York.</p>
<p>I feel so grateful to be able to work with such incredible musicians and wonderful human beings.</p>
<p>Soundengineer Michael Perez-Cisneros and the crew that day in the studio was doing an amazing job in recording us and making us feel comfortable, for all those good vibes and work thank you is a very small word! </p>
<p>The photographer Gulnara Khamatov was able to jump in with short notice and took a lot of photos during the beginning of the day, I post some of them here below.</p>
<p>A huge THANK YOU to everybody involved. I am grateful and happy and look forward to share the music with you sometime in the future!</p>
<p>Much love,</p>
<p>Lilly</p>
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<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/58212082019-07-11T19:18:59+02:002019-07-11T19:23:37+02:00Great "new" review/article in All About Jazz!<p><span class="font_regular"><strong><em>"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."</em></strong></span></p>
<p>Wow! The line above is just the first one in an incredible review/article in All About Jazz by C. Michael Bailey. Reading it made me have goosebumps, smile and feel very grateful at the same time. Furthermore, his article was released on May 9 2018 over a year ago and I had not heard about it until the other day, when I was very kindly notified about it by the founder/Publisher of All About Jazz, Michael Ricci, as he thought it might be of interest for me. Oh, my...he was right! I hope you will all find it worth reading too somehow. Here are some other extracted lines from it:</p>
<p><em>" The pair reveal an immediate potent and intimate rapport, one that allows for a broad latitude of interpretation of their chosen material in such a way not to obscure the original melody, instead enhancing it in a very modern way".</em></p>
<p><em>"Lilly sings with ever so slightly an accent which supercharges her performances increasing it sexual appeal and allure".</em></p>
<p><em>"Hekselman's exacting playing enhances this. On Nick Drake's dark "Voice from the Mountain" Hekselman summons primal tones from his guitar, like that of a garage rock trooper making his way. The pair build dramatic momentum gradually, then allowing it to ebb. The one foreign language piece on the disc, "Hvem Kan Sejle" is paired with the Mancini/Mercer "Whistling Away the Dark" bolstering the Weimar comparison, the music and singing being decadently rich, like dark chocolate. This disc has much to endorse it. More standards from Lilly are in order."</em></p>
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<p>Link to the full article is here beneath as well as a screenshot of the part of the article about my album, Tenderly, which is among seven women-releases that C. Michael Bailey starts by describing as: An embarrassment of riches...</p>
<p><a contents="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=563286" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=563286" target="_blank">https://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=563286</a></p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/01a27a15f76c84e6ed3f718924c6b7d245b94350/original/sk-rmbillede-2019-07-11-kl-18-46-04.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.png" class="size_xl justify_center border_none" alt="" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/55979182019-01-16T08:24:07+01:002019-01-16T08:29:23+01:00LILLY / JACOB FISCHER DUO<p>On Friday January 18 I look forward to play another duo-concert with the wonderful and extraordinary jazzguitarist, Jacob Fischer (DK). We will be playing two sets of various jazzstandards and a premiere of a new song of mine.</p>
<p>Jacob is one of the absolute best and sought after jazzguitarists in Denmark as well as Scandinavia. Popular with audiences and critics alike he has recieved numerous awards and has worked with the best Scandinavian and international musicians. He was a.o. a longtime member of violin legend Svend Asmussens quartet. You can get more info about him here: www.jacobfischer.dk</p>
<p>The concert will take place in Cafe Slotsbio in Hillerød (DK). I have recently been noticed that they have moved the concert to the theater-room from the cafe due to the number of tickets already sold...great!</p>
<p>Much love,</p>
<p>Lilly<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/4ad6c16f2ca72fc4ac6b7575168bc7d70b59079b/original/img-0459.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/54034372018-08-27T22:08:51+02:002018-08-27T22:18:22+02:00Duo with jazzguitarist Jacob Fischer (DK) on Aug 31st<p>On Friday Aug 31st I´ll be playing duo with jazzguitarist <strong>Jacob Fischer</strong>! He is one of the absolute best and sought after jazzguitarists in Denmark as well as Scandinavia. Popular with audiences and critics alike Fischer has recieved numerous awards and has worked with the best Scandinavian and international musicians. He was a.o. a longtime member of violin legend Svend Asmussens quartet. You can get more info about this wonderful musician here: <a contents="www.jacobfischer.dk" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.jacobfischer.dk/index.html">www.jacobfischer.dk</a></p>
<p>The concert will take place at Gilleleje Bibliotek in Kulturhavn Gilleleje from 4-6 pm. Free entrace!!</p>
<p>Much love,</p>
<p>Lilly</p>
<p><a contents="https://www.gribskovbib.dk/arrangementer/film-musik-teater/koncert-med-live-duo-lilly-og-jacob-fischer" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.gribskovbib.dk/arrangementer/film-musik-teater/koncert-med-live-duo-lilly-og-jacob-fischer">https://www.gribskovbib.dk/arrangementer/film-musik-teater/koncert-med-live-duo-lilly-og-jacob-fischer</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/77dc356209e3cdc771cd3495f0c5d118b965684c/original/20110707-jacob-fischer-002.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/1d19f6d6579c30c58227a692167683ac520426b5/original/lilly-smiling-looking-down-colour-photo-by-patricia-frazau-pereira-and-per-sterby.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/53308412018-07-04T13:58:25+02:002018-07-04T15:30:41+02:00Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2018, concert on July 9 <p>On Monday, July 9, I’ll be playing at Copenhagen Jazzfestival with a couple of Swedish Jazz-jewels... Krister Jonsson (gui) and Thommy Andersson (bass). Also, the fantastic cornetist, Kirk Knuffke (US) will be joining the concert as a guest. It will take place at Blågårds Apotek.</p>
<p>You are most welcome to come by!</p>
<p>Much love, Lilly</p>
<p><a contents="http://jazz.dk/copenhagen-jazz-festival-2018/koncerter/52284/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jazz.dk/copenhagen-jazz-festival-2018/koncerter/52284/" style="" target="_blank">http://jazz.dk/copenhagen-jazz-festival-2018/koncerter/52284/</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/0eaab68b63ef02b49380d8db320baf898313afc2/original/8967bcda-acdb-45b7-8955-777c56847b2d.jpeg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/51234862018-03-12T16:27:24+01:002019-03-24T09:36:10+01:00Jazz Weekly: "Female vocal gems..." Another really nice review!<p>Jazz Weekly, a jazzmagazine based in California, has a very nice review in their March issue. I am grateful and happy for it all, and for being mentioned as a FEMALE VOCAL GEM among such great company of singers like Kate McGarry, Madeleine and Sunny Wilkinson !✨ ??</p>
<p>Here are some of the fine words from the review:</p>
<p>"Vocalist Lilly does an impressive collection of cozy duets with guitarist Gilad Hekselman" (...) <br>"Her voice is warm and calm, and she feels completely relaxed in this setting, using space as a sound..." (...) <br>" Hekselman delivers dainty intros like flowing drapery on a glistening “Skylark” and sparkling “Day Dream” while some creative pedal work creates a pastoral “You’re Everything. Gentleness and gentility at its best." </p>
<p>Here is at link to the review: <a contents="http://www.jazzweekly.com/2018/03/female-vocal-gemskate-mcgarry-keith-ganz-gary-versace-the-subject-tonight-is-love-lilly-featuring-gilad-hekselman-tenderly-madeleine-salomon-a-womans-journey/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.jazzweekly.com/2018/03/female-vocal-gemskate-mcgarry-keith-ganz-gary-versace-the-subject-tonight-is-love-lilly-featuring-gilad-hekselman-tenderly-madeleine-salomon-a-womans-journey/" style="" target="_blank">http://www.jazzweekly.com/2018/03/female-vocal-gems</a><br> </p>
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<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/51093652018-03-03T15:30:27+01:002018-03-03T15:30:27+01:00Great review from Germany in Jazz Podium!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/2d7c3e4778f257c01431ef805b02b10dc32154af/original/piccollage.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Wohooo! ? Another great review of my latest album, Tenderly (feat. Gilad Hekselman)! This time <br>from Jazz Podium, a major German jazz magazine: <br>“... listening to her, while she is being accompanied by Gilad - that has the stuff of legend” (....) “Lilly’s authenticity is unsurpassable” (...) “His playing in “Skylark” urges this, all the intros, accompaniments and soli are unique works of art”. (...) <br>“End result: This duo is a new, very tall, bright lighthouse in the variety of this kind of duo occupation”. <br>Above quotes are just some of the very nice words from Alexander Schmitz, Jazz Podium. Thank you very much! I am happy and grateful once again! ?☺️ </p>
<p>It is my fist review in German and from Germany. So, I made an attempt of a translation to English. It is the right column on the pic-collage...if any comments for better translation, please feel free to let me know ☺️</p>
<p><br>❤️ Lilly</p>
<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/50604612018-02-04T09:16:06+01:002018-02-04T09:16:27+01:00"Women on the wings of jazz..." 4 stars and fine words from Berlingske! <p>Tenderly (feat. Gilad Hekselman) was reviewed in the major Danish newspaper, Berlingske this monday January 29, together with some really nice collegues of mine. We were all referred to as "four of the most significant vocalists on the Danish jazzscene" who all recently have released "personal and integrated abums".</p>
<p>I feel grateful, happy and lucky once again for the four stars and more nice words about this album like ".....fine and credible interpretations of songs like Hoagy Carmichaels "Skylark" and Charlie Hadens "First Song" and the Swedish folksong "Vem Kan Segla" here featured in an elegant combination with Henry Mancinis "Whistling Away The Dark" ".</p>
<p>Here is a link to the review online: <a contents="https://www.b.dk/musikanmeldelser/kvinder-paa-jazzens-vinger" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.b.dk/musikanmeldelser/kvinder-paa-jazzens-vinger" target="_blank">https://www.b.dk/musikanmeldelser/kvinder-paa-jazzens-vinger</a></p>
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<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/50448862018-01-27T08:45:00+01:002021-05-17T12:45:36+02:00New York City Jazz Record: “Tenderly is a truly supurb recording...” and many more fine words in this VERY nice review!<p>The magazine THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD that placed Tenderly (feat. Gilad Hekselman) as Top 5 BEST VOCAL RELEASES 2017 about a month ago, is now featuring a VERY nice and thorough review of the album with many fine words and I am really proud to be able to highlight a section like this:</p>
<p><em>"Without the palette of colors provided by a full band, her voice almost floats above the at-times minimalistic, yet rich and often suspenseful tapestry provided by guitar. The material could not have been more challenging, inasmuch as it is inevitably associated with interpretations that have made the history of jazz. Yet, Lilly 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". </em></p>
<p>And it ends with this sentence: <em>"Tenderly is a truly superb recording, which rightly raises the expectations for her next effort".</em></p>
<p>I am SO grateful once again! ?✨ </p>
<p>The review is to be found in the February Issue of <a contents="www.nycjazzrecord.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.nycjazzrecord.com" target="_blank">www.nycjazzrecord.com</a> </p>
<p>Lots of love & peace, Lilly ❤️</p>
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<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/50220892018-01-13T16:12:32+01:002018-01-13T16:15:00+01:004 hearts ❤️❤️❤️❤️... and many fine words from Politiken! <p>Yesterday I received my first review ever in Politiken, a major Danish Newspaper. I feel lucky to have made it to the pages since I know how hard that is, among all those many great records of all kinds of music. </p>
<p>There were many fine words from the reviewer, Christian Munch-Hansen, that called the album a little pearl and a.o. wrote like this: “...everything seems so natural in her confidential present interpretations with Gilad Hekselman, whose sovereign accompaniment is tonally singing, low-keyed listening and filled with small delicious details”. He gave the album 4 warm hearts too ❤️❤️❤️❤️ ☺️✨</p>
<p>I am very happy and grateful once again that this one-day-session with Gilad Hekselman back in 2015 is being so well received.</p>
<p>With love and gratitude,</p>
<p>Lilly ❤️</p>
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<p>Dear all!</p>
<p>?✨ An almost magical and star spangled take-off and journey so far of my new album, Tenderly (feat. Gilad Hekselman) ends on a really high note that I had never even dared dream of a month ago, when I released it on Dec 1st 2017! I am SO happy and grateful .. and also a little proud as well, to announce that The New York City Jazz Record has chosen to give the album 3 really good gifts in their new January 2018 Issue! </p>
<p><br>?1) It has been included as one of their TOP 5 “BEST VOCAL RELEASES OF THE YEAR!” ✨???✨ So.. I am now able to see my name and the album title, Tenderly (feat. Gilad Hekselman), surrounded by 4 really amazing jazz singers in this category.. a couple of them being from major labels and Grammy awarded/nominated! ✨☺️✨ </p>
<p>? 2) And as if that was not enough, I was notified yesterday that it has also been included in a list of their ✨RECOMMENDED NEW RELEASES✨...and so I found myself being on the same list as the divine queen of jazz and one of my first teachers (though she never knew ;), the one and only...Miss ELLA FITZGERALD !!! ✨????? Wow! </p>
<p>As a third thing.. ?3) The album was also mentioned in their VOX NEWS column as an example of “..the diversity of vocal jazz talent that derives from the Nordic region” ☺️ </p>
<p>Oh, my...although, I have known about the first good news for some weeks now, it still feels a bit surreal for me to comprehend all this..including the first 5 star review in Danish music magazine GAFFA on Dec 1st and the last 4,5 Star review in All About Jazz yesterday! Me being a small town girl, living in a small town in the small state of Denmark...having been away from the jazz scene for several years too... or rather, not really having entered it before. <br>So, dear all.. I am truly happy, grateful and astonished to let you all know that Christmas tales DO come true! And it doesn’t matter how old you are ...☺️ </p>
<p>Best wishes for a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 to everyone and THANK YOU so much for everything in 2017!</p>
<p>✨??????? Lots of love and peace, Lilly ❤️ </p>
<p>P.S. You can download the new January Issue and more free monthly Issues as pdf-files here: www.nycjazzrecord.com <br>Or.. if you are in NYC you can also pick up a copy at a lot of various music venues around town✨? ???????</p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/49999272017-12-30T14:10:50+01:002019-03-24T09:38:55+01:00BEST OF 2017: Vocal Releases - in The New York City Jazz Review!<p> </p>
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<p>Dear All.</p>
<p>I am truly HAPPY & GRATEFUL to let you all know that my latest album, Tenderly (feat. Gilad Hekselman) has been chosen as one of the five <strong>BEST VOCAL RELEASES 2017</strong> in The New York City Jazz Record!</p>
<p>I feel proud to be in this category at all, and furthermore to share it with the jazz singers Jazzmeia Horn, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Dominique Eade and Eric Mingus. Wow! A big and warm thanks to everyone at The New York City Jazz Review for the good news!</p>
<p>It is overwhelming and a bit surreal..but in a very nice way! Sometimes life smiles at you and rewards you with good things when you are least expecting it :)</p>
<p>Furthermore, the album is also being mentioned in the VOX NEWS column of the same January Issue of the The New York City Jazz Records (page 11), and it was also featured in the RECOMMENDED NEW RELEASES by the editor, Laurence Donohuse-Greene!</p>
<p>Please visit <a contents="www.nycjazzrecord.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.nycjazzrecord.com" target="_blank">www.nycjazzrecord.com</a> to download the January Issue for free, or if you happen to be in New York City, you can pick a physical expample up at many venues there all month long!</p>
<p>With much love and gratitude,</p>
<p>Lilly</p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/49999312017-12-30T14:01:03+01:002020-07-03T08:07:03+02:00REALLY NICE REVIEW IN ALL ABOUT JAZZ & in BEST RELEASES 2017 by Jakob Bækgaard!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/3d697cd90669a482ea523620950c90114ac77539/original/sk-rmbillede-2017-12-30-kl-13-44-19.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Dear all.</p>
<p>I am really happy to have received a really nice review in All About Jazz, and many stars too to go along with the fine words...4,5 stars out of 5! I am so grateful that the music I made with Gilad on this album is liked a lot once again :)</p>
<p>The author of this review, Jakob Bækgaard, furthermore liked the music so much that he has included it on his list of <a contents="BEST RELEASES 2017" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/jakob-baekgaards-best-releases-of-2017-matthew-shipp-by-jakob-baekgaard.php" target="_blank">BEST RELEASES 2017</a>. Thanks a lot!</p>
<p><a contents="Here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tenderly-lilly-self-produced-review-by-jakob-baekgaard.php" target="_blank">Here</a> is a link to the review.</p>
<p>Big hug,</p>
<p>Lilly</p>
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<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/49998822017-12-13T12:35:00+01:002017-12-30T12:44:58+01:00Nice review from Jazznyt by Niels Overgaard<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/f32afe70099ecde0920f5b5788b44ab150ad3f13/original/sk-rmbillede-2017-12-30-kl-12-39-42.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
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<p>I am very happy to have received another nice review of the album, Tenderly (feat. Gilad Hekselman). This time by Niels Overgaard, from the jazzblog, Jazznyt.blogspot.com, who thinks that Gilad and have been able to "....create something new and personal of the wellknown melodies".</p>
<p>You can read it here in Danish: <a contents="http://jazznyt.blogspot.dk/2017/12/lilly-feat-gilad-hekselman-tenderly.html?m=1" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://jazznyt.blogspot.dk/2017/12/lilly-feat-gilad-hekselman-tenderly.html?m=1" target="_blank">http://jazznyt.blogspot.dk/2017/12/lilly-feat-gilad-hekselman-tenderly.html?m=1</a></p>
<p>Best wishes to all of you for a nice December and HAPPY HOLIDAYS,</p>
<p>Lilly</p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/49576442017-12-01T11:17:18+01:002022-05-21T19:56:49+02:00NEW ALBUM OUT TODAY! LILLY: Tenderly (feat. GILAD HEKSELMAN) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars in Danish music magazine GAFFA!<p>Dear all!</p>
<p>Today it´s December 1st, and I am <strong>VERY HAPPY</strong> to announce the release of a new album, LILLY: Tenderly (feat. GILAD HEKSELMAN). You can get it for download and streaming worldwide <a contents="HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://lilly.lnk.to/Tenderly" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</p>
<p>It was such a joy to make music together with this amazing, wonderful guitarist and human being one fine Octoberday back in 2015. <strong>THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GILAD!</strong> Now the result is out for you all to listen to. Hopefully you will enjoy it!</p>
<p>I am also really happy and overwhelmed by the first and very fine review from Ivan Rod/GAFFA, who gives the album ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️<em><b> 5</b> </em><strong>STARS</strong>! Most of all I am truly happy since he writes about how touched and deeply impressed he is about the music we have made here.To me, that is what making music and singing is all about...to touch someone. If that happens - I feel a joy deep in my heart and soul! </p>
<p>Ivan Rod begins his review like this: </p>
<p><em>"I am touched and deeply impressed by Lillys new album, Tenderly. Touched and impressed by the Danish jazzsingers vulnerable, minimalistic and almost naked expression. Touched and impressed by her deepfelt, relevant and solid versions of eight of the really great jazzstandards. So touched and impressed, that I have to say, that Tenderly is not only Lillys best releast until date, but one the recent years best Danish vocaljazzalbums!</em>"</p>
<p>....He ends the review with these words:</p>
<p><em>"The way, in which the two - Lilly and Hekselman - approach the material, is so absolutely poignant and reveals a deep musicality. The voice and the guitar is like a match made in heaven. And the management of the material is poignant". </em></p>
<p>Thank you very much, Ivan! </p>
<p>You can read the full review in Danish musicmagazine here in <a contents="GAFFA" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/123492/imponerende-godt-minimalistisk-vokaljazzalbum/" target="_blank">GAFFA</a> and in Ivan´s own blog here <a contents="www.ivanrod.dk" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.ivanrod.dk/2017/12/01/lilly-feat-gilad-hekselman-tenderly/" target="_blank">www.ivanrod.dk</a></p>
<p>Now...best wishes to all of you of a happy, healthy and peaceful december.</p>
<p>Much love,</p>
<p>Lilly ❤️</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/5a4f8d6dcebe61dd271c0bb4f2127069819393f2/original/albumcover-lilly-tenderly-feat-gilad-hekselman-3000-x3000-pixel.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/49507172017-11-27T19:45:45+01:002019-03-24T09:42:12+01:00On my way to Radio Jazz..<p>Right now I am on my way to Radio Jazz in Copenhagen where I have been invited to come and play some songs from the new album, Tenderly (feat. Gilad Hekselman).</p>
<p>It will be released this Friday, Dec 1st! </p>
<p>You can listen to Radio Jazz here via the internet <a contents="www.radiojazz.dk" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.radiojazz.dk" target="_blank">www.radiojazz.dk</a> or if you live in Copenhagen you can tune in to FM 102,9. I will be on air from about 21.00 - 21.30, today Monday 27th Nov. </p>
<p>Mondayhugs and all that jazz, </p>
<p>Lilly ☺️</p>
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<p> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/49003522017-10-20T21:50:29+02:002017-10-20T21:50:29+02:00TENDERLY... title track from new album coming soon: LILLY feat. GILAD HEKSELMAN<p>Hello everybody!</p>
<p>Today on Oct 20th it is exactly two years ago I had a very nice and fun day in a studio in Copenhagen with the wonderful guitarist, Gilad Hekselman. It happened as a part of his Artist In Residence stay here back then. An album has been carefully mixed and mastered by the fabulous August Wanngren, and so now I am able to let you have a listen to the song Tenderly, which is also the titletrack of a coming duoalbum which will be released digitally ultimo 2017. More info about the excact releasedate very soon....</p>
<p>Here is a link to the song Tenderly on Soundcloud: <a contents="https://soundcloud.com/lillysongs_com/tenderly" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://soundcloud.com/lillysongs_com/tenderly">https://soundcloud.com/lillysongs_com/tenderly</a></p>
<p>Hope you will enjoy it!</p>
<p>Much love,</p>
<p>Lilly</p>
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<p>Here is a little bit about Gilad..borrowed from his website <a contents="www.giladhekselman.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.giladhekselman.com">www.giladhekselman.com</a>:</p>
<p>GILAD HEKSELMAN has been developing a reputation as one of the most promising guitarists in New York since his arrival in 2004. After only a few years this native Israeli has shared the stage with some of the greatest artists in the New York City jazz scene including Chris Potter, Mark Turner, John Scofield, Anat Cohen, Ari Hoenig, Esperanza Spalding, Sam Yahel, Jeff Ballard, Gretchen Parlato, Avishai Cohen, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Tigran Hamasyan, Aaron Parks and Greg Hutchinson. </p>
<p>Gilad has played all major jazz clubs in New York City including the Blue Note, The Jazz Standard, Dizzy's Club and Smalls. He is constantly touring world-wide and has played most noteworthy jazz festivals including Montreux (Sui), North Sea (Ned), Montreal (Can) & San Francisco (USA).</p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/45002892016-12-07T15:46:15+01:002019-03-24T09:42:45+01:00Updates on reviews & and a little peaceful song...<p>Dear all, <br>Better late than never....! Last week I found out that my latest album, Menneskeblomst, had been recommended in <strong>JAZZ Special</strong>, a Danish musicmagazine this summer. Furthermore it was a thorough and very nice review, which made me really happy :) So I am just here now to share the discovery with you, and to let you know that I also added some other reviews as well to my website of all of my three albums. You can<strong> </strong><a contents="read reviews here." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lillysongs.com/reviews">read reviews here.</a></p>
<p>Also, if you missed my newsblog-update the last time...then it´s now also possible to listen to Menneskeblomst via streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal etc, besides on CD and digital download. You can find direct links here:<strong> </strong><a contents="http://www.lillysongs.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lillysongs.com/music">http://www.lillysongs.com/music</a><br><br>Hope you are all well and are having a nice December! <br><br>Much peace and love, <br>Lilly<br><br>P.S.<br>If you feel like having some peace and quiet of mind..then you might like to listen to the closing song of the Menneskeblomst-album...it is called Livets Træ (Tree Of Life), and features Gustaf Ljunggren (S) and Anders AC Christensen. I uploaded it last year on my YouTube-channel: <a contents="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjUj_2AVTiI" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjUj_2AVTiI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjUj_2AVTiI</a><br>I will leave it there for a little while more...<br><br>P.P.S. <br>Feel free to Like my Facebook-musician/artist-page: <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/lillysongs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/lillysongs">https://www.facebook.com/lillysongs</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/ddca5872a2ef24b0457e0f64239a11411c774c38/original/itunes-page-4-lilly-and-tree-artwork-only.jpg?1456100409" class="size_l justify_center border_" />Artwork above and for the entire Menneskeblomst album by <a contents="Matthew McLemore" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mattmclemore.com">Matthew McLemore</a><br> </p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/44857512016-11-27T20:32:29+01:002016-11-28T06:26:40+01:00Lilly´s latest album, Menneskeblomst, now available on streaming services!<p>Hello everybody! It´s been a while and I have been taking a really long break from almost any updates and involvements on social medias since my last release in March. But, I am back on this fast-train-track and will feed you with some surprises soon that might compensate for my time off here ;)<br><br>To begin with I can announce that my latest album release, Menneskeblomst, is now available on streaming services like Apple Music, Tidal, Spotify etc.<br>On my website <a contents="lillysongs.com/music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lillysongs.com/music">lillysongs.com/music</a> you can find links to various streaming and download services, lyrics and more of this and my two other albums as well.<br><br>Menneskeblomst, is my first album with lyrics in Danish and it features these three wonderful musicians: Gustaf Ljunggren (S) on different guitars, stringinstruments, piano etc. , Anders AC Christensen (DK) on doublebass and Lew Soloff (US) on trumpet.<br><br>So, you´re welcome to check it out and also feel free to leave me a comment and/or sign up <a contents="here" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lillysongs.com/newsletter" target="_blank">here</a> on my emaillist for newsletters directly in your inbox and to Like my Facebook artistpage <a contents="facebook.com/lillysongs" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/lillysongs">facebook.com/lillysongs</a><br><br>Much love and peace,<br>Lilly<br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/1e03cc4257a28828c4a046dbb500530881f56906/original/lilly-menneskeblomst-cd-cover-2400x2400-pixel-copy-rgb-profile.jpg?1456085017" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/40832702016-03-11T14:00:42+01:002019-03-24T09:44:06+01:00NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/86bbbe29dcffef066994def8dd8044ad12ec2fcc/original/ac-lilly-gus-og-lew-mindre-str-picshells.jpeg?0" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br>Dear all! Today, Friday March 11, is the official release date of my third album, Menneskeblomst (Humanflower). The chapter of it's creation is now complete and I will release it and let it go out on its own into the world. I feel so fortunate and happy to have had the assistance of three outstanding musicians and really nice human beings during the making of it. <a contents="Gustaf Ljunggren" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Ljunggren_%28musiker%29" target="_blank"><strong>Gustaf Ljunggren</strong></a> (S), <a contents="Anders AC Christensen" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Christensen_%28bassist%29" target="_blank"><strong>Anders AC Christensen</strong></a> (DK) and <strong><a contents="Lew Soloff" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lewsoloff.com/" target="_blank">Lew Soloff</a> </strong>(US) - <strong>THANK YOU SO MUCH</strong> for sharing your great talents and nice company! ❤️❤️❤️. I enjoyed it very much! The days in Gustaf's studio in Copenhagen in September 2014 and the days with Lew in NYC in January, 2015 will always be dear and fond memories. The good energy has been my guiding star throughout the whole process - for that I am very grateful!</p>
<p>I would also like to thank and give credits to these good people and organisations for their fine work and help: <strong><a contents="August Wanngren" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.wanngren.com/" target="_blank">August Wanngren</a></strong> (mix), <strong><a contents="Stockholm Mastering" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.stockholmmastering.se/" target="_blank">Stockholm Mastering</a> </strong>/ Thomas Eberger (mastering), <strong><a contents="Matthew McLemore" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mattmclemore.com/" target="_blank">Matthew McLemore</a></strong> (artwork), <strong><a contents="Patrizia Frazau Pereira" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.zenproduction.dk/" target="_blank">Patricia Frazau Pereira</a></strong> (photos), <strong><a contents="Per Østerby" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://dk.linkedin.com/in/per-%C3%B8sterby-0a188450" target="_blank">Per Østerby</a> </strong>(photos), <strong><a contents="Søren Gaden" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.gadenpr.dk/" target="_blank">Søren Gaden</a></strong> (Pressroom/PR guidance), <a contents="Gateway Music " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://gatewaymusic.dk/" target="_blank"><strong>Gateway Music</strong> </a>(distribution),<strong> </strong><a contents="DJBFA " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.djbfa.dk/" target="_blank"><strong>DJBFA</strong> </a>(scholarships and retreats),<strong> <a contents="Dansk Artist Forbund" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.artisten.dk/" target="_blank">Dansk Artist Forbund</a></strong> (financial albumsupport). <br><br>All music & lyrics by Lilly.<br>Produced by Lilly and Gustaf Ljunggren.</p>
<p>You can get more info and listen to soundclips, watch videos and find links to purchase the album at my site: <strong><a contents="www.lillysongs.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lillysongs.com" target="_blank">www.lillysongs.com</a></strong><br><br>Direct links here to<br><strong>digital download</strong>: <a contents="iTunes" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/menneskeblomst/id1083469525?l=da" target="_blank"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> (iTunes booklet included if you purchase the album), <a contents="Amazon" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BNREZJU/188-5544016-0421355?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0" target="_blank"><strong>Amazon</strong></a>, <strong><a contents="Google Play" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Lilly_Menneskeblomst?id=Bpyyvetwxpwhej6jahjnl27vdv4" target="_blank">Google Play,</a> <a contents="7 Digital" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.7digital.com/artist/lilly/release/menneskeblomst-5214396?f=20%2C19%2C12%2C16%2C17%2C9%2C2" target="_blank">7 Digital </a></strong>....among other places.<br>or<br><strong>CD</strong> purchase at <strong><a contents="Gateway Music" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.gatewaymusicshop.dk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=953" target="_blank">Gateway Music</a></strong> or <strong><a contents="iMusic" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.imusic.dk/cd/5707785004722/lilly-2016-menneskeblomst-compact-disc" target="_blank">iMusic</a></strong></p>
<p>Much peace and love, <br>Lilly ❤️</p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/40616712016-02-26T16:21:49+01:002017-01-16T04:58:04+01:00PRE-ORDER of my New Album, Menneskeblomst, is available now!<p>Dear all! <br>My <span style="color:#FF8C00;"><strong>NEW ALBUM</strong></span>, Menneskeblomst,<br>will be released two weeks from today on<br><strong>Friday March 11, 2016!</strong><br><br>But, you can <strong>PRE-ORDER </strong>it now<br>as a <span style="color:#FF8C00;"><strong>digital download</strong></span> here at <span class="font_regular"><strong><a contents="iTunes " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://itunes.apple.com/dk/album/menneskeblomst/id1083469525?l=da" target="_blank">iTunes </a></strong></span><br>& as a <span style="color:#FF8C00;"><strong>CD</strong></span> at <span class="font_regular"><strong><a contents="Gateway Music Shop" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.gatewaymusicshop.dk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=953" target="_blank">Gateway Music Shop</a></strong></span><span class="font_large"> </span><br><br><span class="font_regular">The album features these three incredible musicians:<br><strong>Gustaf Ljunggren</strong> (S) on various guitars/stringinstruments, piano etc. - (C.V. Jørgensen, Sofia Karlsson, Randi Laubek a.o.)<br><strong>Anders AC Christensen</strong> (DK) on doublebass (The Raveonettes, Paul Motian, Jakob Bro, Hess/AC/Hess, Nikolaj Nørlund a.o)<br><strong>Lew Soloff </strong>(US) on trumpet (Blood, Sweat & Tears, Gil Evans, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, Frank Sinatra, Machito, Carla Bley a.o)</span><br> </p>
<p>All music & lyrics is written by me, and will be in Danish for the first time. The album deals with transition and change, using metaphors from the nature that surrounds us to describe the transitions and changes within our own nature as well as in relationships and communities. Menneskeblomst is a self invented word, meaning Humanflower.</p>
<p>Now it´s also possible to listen to soundclips, read lyrics and order/buy music from all of my three albums in the <a contents="Music " data-link-label="Music" data-link-type="page" href="/music" target="_blank"><strong>Music</strong> </a>tab!</p>
<p><br><span class="font_regular">Much peace & Love,<br>Lilly<br><br><a contents="www.lillysongs.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lillysongs.com" target="_blank">www.lillysongs.com</a></span></p>
<p><br><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/1e03cc4257a28828c4a046dbb500530881f56906/original/lilly-menneskeblomst-cd-cover-2400x2400-pixel-copy-rgb-profile.jpg?0" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/40553932016-02-23T11:48:26+01:002017-01-16T04:58:04+01:00UnderCOVER Cat<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/7823a19ef60c3b716e403887df642ef6e2159227/original/fil-23-02-2016-11-31-04.jpeg?0" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><br><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/191504/e7becf75163991fc907e38c0dc0e31022ba8fa53/original/fil-23-02-2016-11-16-36.jpeg?0" class="size_l justify_center border_" />The cd´s for my new album, Menneskeblomst, arrived yesterday!<br>A big shout out to my dear friend <a contents="Matthew McLemore" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mattmclemore.com/" target="_blank">Matthew McLemore </a>who made all the beautiful artwork!<br><br>One of the two cats in the house was curious at first and then went undercover and back to sleeping again - not killed by curiosity ;-) #curiosity-killed-the-cat<br> LILLYtag:www.lillysongs.com,2005:Post/40525142016-02-21T15:20:57+01:002016-02-26T16:35:05+01:00NEW ALBUM release on March 11, 2016Dear all! I am very happy to announce that my new and third album, <strong>Menneskeblomst</strong>, soon is about to be released.<br><br>It will happen on <strong>Friday, March 11 2016</strong>.<br><br>Menneskeblomst, is a Danish word I made up. Literally traslated it means Humanflower.<br>It wil be my first album with Danish lyrics.<br><br>It features three incredible musicians.<br>The multiinstrumentalist, <strong>Gustaf Ljunggren </strong>(S), who also recorded and produced the album with me.<br><strong>Anders AC Christensen</strong> (DK) on doublebass and <strong>Lew Soloff </strong>(US) on trumpet.<br><br>It will be available for presale in iTunes though from two weeks before, on Feb 26 th.<br> LILLY