“…Kole puts her stamp on Great American Songbook tunes and more contemporary classics-to-be. The Album is personal, accomplished and versatile…….” -Carlo Wolff- Downbeat Magazine (click on photo to read more)
RADIO INTERVIEW with Andre J Thomas on the Joe Lockett Show -May 30, 2016
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CHAYZ LOUNGE . COM features Hilary Kole: A Self-Portrait
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT HILARY KOLE…
“Hilary Kole offers a stunning and eclectic collection of pop and jazz with her new offering …
“..HILARY KOLE: A SELF-PORTRAIT… It’ll remain in your CD player for a long time for sure…. Vocally Hilary is on top of her game here… Beauty and artistry combine to …
“..though the overall feel is intimate and cozy, the pliancy of Kole’s musicianship shines through, most notably on a towering interpretation of Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach’s “God Give Me …
From a recent interview for my new CD A Self-Portrait:
“I really wanted to share with everybody the music that really moved me. These were songs that helped me get through …
"Ms. Kole is a distinctive form of a vocalist as she tells her story with varied styles of purring her emotional struggles. There is no standard pattern to her music as it adapts into the cut that is meant to elucidate the emotions the spin is adjoined with. Each cut on this project has a rationale and methodology to dispatch on to each listener in relation to their own encounters. Among all the songs, the acrobatic arrangements exercise the minds and moods of the listener with Ms. Kole’s expansive vision to get across human feelings." Nov. 20, 2014 by Karl Stober Read more at http://ejazznews.com/?p=22472
"Hilary Kole has one of the great contemporary jazz voices. This is partly attributable to a terrific, well-honed instrument and, partly, I conjecture, to an old soul. Kole comprehends the genre viscerally. She interprets numbers with a heady blend of sophistication and original inflection natural to artists of a much earlier era." --Nov 8, 2014 by Alix Cohen read more at http://cabaretscenes.org/2014/11/08/hilary-kole-a-self-portrait-2/