Lisa Kristine Hilton is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, producer, and composer based in Southern California.

Since the early 2000s she has recorded with Antonio Sánchez, Larry Grenadier, Christian McBride, Luques Curtis, J. D. Allen, Rudy Royston, Igmar Thomas, and Sean Jones.

[5] Seeing the blues duo Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee in concert had a lasting impact, as did the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Robert Johnson, and Muddy Waters.

The albums include cover tunes by musicians such as Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Lana Del Rey, and Taylor Swift, and Ann Ronell.

[7] Hilton has also worked with renowned engineers Doug Sax, Gavin Lurssen, Fernando Lodeiro, Larry Mah, James Farber, Chandler Harrod, Eric Boulanger, and Jay Newland, recording 300 tracks of original compositions as well as jazz covers.

[13] As a bandleader, Hilton has worked with bassists Christian McBride, Luques Curtis, and Larry Grenadier, drummers Antonio Sanchez, Nasheet Waits, Rudy Royston, Billy Hart, and Lewis Nash, trumpeters Sean Jones and Terrell Stafford, and saxophonists J. D. Allen, Steve Wilson, Brice Winston, and Bobby Militello.

[14] On her latest album, Lucky All Along, Hilton’s line-up included long-time bandmates Rudy Royston on drums, Luques Curtis on bass, and trumpeter Igmar Thomas.

[18] In 1988, Price Stern Sloan published the children's book, If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today, which Hilton wrote with her sister, Sandra L. Kirkpatrick, and illustrated by Randy Chewning.

[22] The daughter of a biology professor, she values nature and brings it into her compositions, as in the titles "Vapors & Shadows" from Oasis, "Mojave Moon" from Escapism, and "Sunset on the Beach" from Day and Night.