Liz Story

Liz Story

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Liz Story, born October 28, 1956, in San Diego, California, is an American pianist and composer. She began her musical education at a young age, mastering Mozart's Klavierkonzert F-Dur KV 413 by 11. She studied at the Juilliard School and Hunter College, and after hearing pianist Bill Evans perform at a club in New York City, she studied jazz piano with Sanford Gold. Returning to California, she studied at Dick Grove Music Workshops and worked as a restaurant pianist, where her improvisations evolved into compositions. William Ackermann of Windham Hill Records discovered her work, which led to the release of her debut album Solid Colors in 1983. Throughout the 1980s, she became prominent in the New Age music scene, releasing notable albums such as Part Of Fortune (1986). She composed for the film Worth Winning (1989) and was nominated multiple times for Grammy Awards. She also released the album, My Foolish Heart, in 1992.

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Hymn
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
04:17
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Church of Trees
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
05:58
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
11
Devotion
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
03:02
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
14
Turn Out The Stars
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
02:41
Composers: Evans
07
I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:40
Composers: Gregory Webster - Ellington
10
Escape of the Circus Ponies
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
06:04
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
08
White Heart
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
02:12
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
10
Someday My Prince Will Come
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
02:39
Composers: Churchill - Morey
05
My Romance
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:09
Composers: Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart
01
My Foolish Heart
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:03
Composers: Washington - Young
02
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
04:04
Composers: Wolfe - Landesman
05
Things With Wings
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
02:48
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
How Insensitive
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:31
Composers: Jobim - De Moraes - Gimbel
11
Never Never Land
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:13
Composers: Comden - Green - Jule Styne
13
All The Things You Are
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:34
Composers: Hammerstein II - Kern
04
My One And Only Love
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
02:46
Composers: Wood - Mellin
07
Welcome Home
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
06:53
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
09
In A Sentimental Mood
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:41
Composers: Ellington
08
You Are Too Beautiful
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
04:13
Composers: Lorenz Hart - Richard Rodgers
12
Starfinder
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
04:42
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
My Ship
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:27
Writer: Gershwin - Weill / Composers: Gershwin - Weill
12
Never Will I Know
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
05:47
Composers: Grove
02
I Can't Get Started
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
04:19
Composers: Ira Gershwin - Vernon Duke
05
Wedding Rain
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
05:44
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Water Caves
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
03:07
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
The Elephant Trainer
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
05:00
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
12
Voices
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
04:00
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
09
Without You
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
04:29
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Beginners Mind
Liz Story
17 Seconds To Anywhere
03:55
Composers: Liz Story
11
Church Of Trees
Liz Story
Conversations with God: A Windham Hill Collection
04:41
Composers: Liz Story
29
Someone To Watch Over Me
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
04:57
Composers: George Gershwin - Ira Gershwin
01
Bradley's Dream
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
04:43
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Back Porch
Liz Story
Speechless
03:57
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
01
Greensleeves (What Child Is This?) from A Winter's Solstice (1985 Version)
Liz Story
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
03:27
Composers: Traditional
03
Teased Hair
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
02:25
Composers: Liz Story
03
Without You
Liz Story
Solid Colors
04:29
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
15
Conversations With God
Liz Story
Conversations with God: A Windham Hill Collection
02:45
Composers: Liz Story
02
Pacheco Pass
Liz Story
Solid Colors
03:05
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
11
Easy Access
Liz Story
Sundown: A Windam Hill Piano Collection
04:34
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
04
Myth America
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
03:17
Composers: Liz Story
21
My Foolish Heart
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
03:03
Composers: Washington - Young
04
The Sounding Joy
Liz Story
Sundown: A Windam Hill Piano Collection
03:49
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Frog Park
Liz Story
Pure
03:04
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
10
Out Of Time
Liz Story
Yoga Zone: Music for Meditation--A Windham Hill Collection
05:38
Composers: Liz Story
11
Blessings
Liz Story
Thanksgiving
03:54
Composers: Liz Story
13
O Come, O Come Emmanuel / Personent Hodie
Liz Story
The Gift
03:04
Composers: German, 12th Century, Pies Cantiones 1582
09
My One And Only Love
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
02:46
Composers: Wood - Mellin
13
Prelude In C# From The Well-Tempered Clavier
Liz Story
The Bach Variations
01:55
Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach
23
I Thought About You
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
04:37
Composers: Johnny Mercer - Jimmy Van Heusen
14
Rope Trick
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
06:12
Composers: Liz Story
07
Incision
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
07:08
Composers: Liz Story
15
Valse d'Amelie
Liz Story
Pure
03:26
Composers: Yann Tiersen
09
Sagittarius
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:29
08
Captain April
Liz Story
Pure
04:19
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Libra
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:08
11
Aquarius
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
04:43
17
In The Still Of The Night
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
04:51
Composers: Cole Porter
08
Scorpio
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:14
12
Pisces
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
02:56
08
Elm
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
04:28
Composers: Richard Alan Beirach
24
Short Fur Coat
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
04:52
Composers: Liz Story
04
Cancer
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:58
02
Taurus
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:28
06
Another Shore
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
07:22
Composers: Liz Story
06
Virgo
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
02:45

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  • Discography
Albums
Jazz Standards & Originals
(P) 2024 Sony Music Entertainment
25-10-2024
Jazz Standards & Originals
01
Water Caves
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
03:07
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
I Can't Get Started
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
04:19
Composers: Ira Gershwin - Vernon Duke
03
My Ship
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
03:27
Writer: Gershwin - Weill / Composers: Gershwin - Weill
04
I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
03:40
Composers: Gregory Webster - Ellington
05
Never Never Land
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
03:13
Composers: Comden - Green - Jule Styne
06
Starfinder
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
04:42
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
My Romance
Liz Story
Jazz Standards & Originals
03:09
Composers: Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart
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The Essential Liz Story
This compilation (P) 2023 Sony Music Entertainment
04-08-2023
The Essential Liz Story
01
Bradley's Dream
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
04:43
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
Wedding Rain
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
05:44
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Solid Colors
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
04:36
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
04
Hymn
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
04:17
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
05
Things With Wings
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
02:48
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Pacheco Pass
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
03:05
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Water Caves
Liz Story
The Essential Liz Story
03:07
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
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Pure
(p) 2006 Sony Music Entertainment
26-06-2006
Pure
01
Wedding Rain
Liz Story
Pure
05:44
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
Solid Colors
Liz Story
Pure
04:36
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Pacheco Pass
Liz Story
Pure
03:05
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
04
I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)
Liz Story
Pure
03:40
Composers: Gregory Webster - Ellington
05
Toy Soldiers
Liz Story
Pure
03:37
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Inside Out
Liz Story
Pure
03:49
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Frog Park
Liz Story
Pure
03:04
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
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Night Sky Essays
12-07-2005
Night Sky Essays
01
Aries
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
05:03
02
Taurus
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:28
03
Gemini
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
02:43
04
Cancer
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:58
05
Leo
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:57
06
Virgo
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
02:45
07
Libra
Liz Story
Night Sky Essays
03:08
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Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
(P) 2001 BMG Entertainment
08-10-2001
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
01
Bradley's Dream
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
04:43
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
Reconciliation
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
04:22
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Broken Arrow Drive
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
04:38
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
04
Ana
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
05:06
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
05
Wedding Rain
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
05:44
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Church of Trees
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
05:58
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Welcome Home
Liz Story
Welcome Home: The Best Of Liz Story
06:53
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
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17 Seconds To Anywhere
(P) 1998 BMG Entertainment
09-01-1998
17 Seconds To Anywhere
01
Captain April
Liz Story
17 Seconds To Anywhere
04:19
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
Rumors Of Discipline
Liz Story
17 Seconds To Anywhere
04:43
Composers: Liz Story
03
Beginners Mind
Liz Story
17 Seconds To Anywhere
03:55
Composers: Liz Story
04
Voices
Liz Story
17 Seconds To Anywhere
04:00
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
05
Out Of Time
Liz Story
17 Seconds To Anywhere
05:38
Composers: Liz Story
06
17 Seconds To Anywhere
Liz Story
17 Seconds To Anywhere
04:59
Composers: Liz Story
07
Easy Access
Liz Story
17 Seconds To Anywhere
04:34
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
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Liz Story
(P) 1996 BMG Entertainment
15-10-1996
Liz Story
01
The Very Thought Of You
Liz Story
Liz Story
04:28
Composers: Ray Noble
02
Memories Of You
Liz Story
Liz Story
04:46
Composers: Andy Razaf - Eubie Blake
03
Someone To Watch Over Me
Liz Story
Liz Story
04:57
Composers: George Gershwin - Ira Gershwin
04
Church of Trees
Liz Story
Liz Story
05:58
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
05
Mack The Knife
Liz Story
Liz Story
04:59
Writer: Marc Blitzstein / Composers: Kurt Weill - Bertolt Brecht
06
I Thought About You
Liz Story
Liz Story
04:37
Composers: Johnny Mercer - Jimmy van Heusen
07
In The Still Of The Night
Liz Story
Liz Story
04:51
Composers: Cole Porter
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The Gift
(P) 1994 BMG Entertainment
12-09-1994
The Gift
01
Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella / When Blossoms Flowered 'Mid The Snows
Liz Story
The Gift
02:54
Composers: French Traditional Carol/Pietro Yon "Gesu Bambino" - Pietro Yon
02
Wassail Song (Here We Come, A-Wassailing)
Liz Story
The Gift
03:22
Composers: North of England, Song of Nativity, 17th Century
03
In The Bleak Midwinter / O Sanctissima
Liz Story
The Gift
03:03
Composers: Traditional Sicilian and Latin Hymn, 18th Century
04
Greensleeves (What Child Is This?) from The Gift (1994 Version)
Liz Story
The Gift
03:50
Composers: Traditional English, 16th Century
05
Angels We Have Heard On High
Liz Story
The Gift
03:50
Composers: French Carol, 18th Century
06
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Liz Story
The Gift
02:36
Composers: Hugh Martin - Ralph Blane
07
We Three Kings Of Orient Are
Liz Story
The Gift
03:57
Composers: John H. Hopkins, c1857
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My Foolish Heart
(P) 1992 BMG Entertainment
10-05-1992
My Foolish Heart
01
My Foolish Heart
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:03
Composers: Washington - Young
02
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
04:04
Composers: Wolfe - Landesman
03
How Insensitive
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:31
Composers: Jobim - De Moraes - Gimbel
04
My One And Only Love
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
02:46
Composers: Wood - Mellin
05
My Romance
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:09
Composers: Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart
06
My Ship
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:27
Writer: Gershwin - Weill / Composers: Gershwin - Weill
07
I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)
Liz Story
My Foolish Heart
03:40
Composers: Gregory Webster - Ellington
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Escape Of The Circus Ponies
(P) 1990 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
25-09-1990
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
01
Broken Arrow Drive
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
04:38
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
Inside Out
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
03:49
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Escape of the Circus Ponies
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
06:04
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
04
Church of Trees
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
05:58
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
05
The Sounding Joy
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
03:49
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Another Shore
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
07:22
Composers: Liz Story
07
Incision
Liz Story
Escape Of The Circus Ponies
07:08
Composers: Liz Story
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Speechless
(P) 1988 RCA Records
30-08-1988
Speechless
01
Forgiveness
Liz Story
Speechless
08:57
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
Frog Park
Liz Story
Speechless
03:04
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Welcome Home
Liz Story
Speechless
06:53
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
04
Hermes Dance
Liz Story
Speechless
07:04
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
05
Speechless
Liz Story
Speechless
06:37
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Back Porch
Liz Story
Speechless
03:57
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Vigil
Liz Story
Speechless
08:31
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
(P) 1986 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
28-10-1986
Part Of Fortune
01
Toy Soldiers
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
03:37
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
The Elephant Trainer
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
05:00
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Teased Hair
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
02:25
Composers: Liz Story
04
Myth America
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
03:17
Composers: Liz Story
05
Part Of Fortune
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
02:49
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Reconciliation
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
04:22
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Duende
Liz Story
Part Of Fortune
06:00
Composers: Liz Story
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Unaccountable Effect
(P) 1985 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
01-04-1985
Unaccountable Effect
01
Unaccountable Effect
Liz Story
Unaccountable Effect
08:12
Writer: Mark Isham - Liz Story / Composers: Mark Isham - Liz Story
02
Devotion
Liz Story
Unaccountable Effect
03:02
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Mostly the Hours
Liz Story
Unaccountable Effect
04:16
Composers: Liz Story
04
Starfinder
Liz Story
Unaccountable Effect
04:42
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
05
Rope Trick
Liz Story
Unaccountable Effect
06:12
Composers: Liz Story
06
My Heart, Your Heart
Liz Story
Unaccountable Effect
03:54
Composers: Dick Grove - Joy Bryan
07
Leap of Faith
Liz Story
Unaccountable Effect
03:54
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
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Solid Colors
(P) 1983 BMG Entertainment
01-11-1983
Solid Colors
01
Wedding Rain
Liz Story
Solid Colors
05:44
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
02
Pacheco Pass
Liz Story
Solid Colors
03:05
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
03
Without You
Liz Story
Solid Colors
04:29
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
04
Hymn
Liz Story
Solid Colors
04:17
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
05
Things With Wings
Liz Story
Solid Colors
02:48
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
06
Solid Colors
Liz Story
Solid Colors
04:36
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
07
Bradley's Dream
Liz Story
Solid Colors
04:43
Writer: Liz Story / Composers: Liz Story
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Featured in
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
(P) 2005 Sony Music Entertainment
18-10-2005
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
01
Greensleeves (What Child Is This?) from A Winter's Solstice (1985 Version)
Liz Story
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
03:27
Composers: Traditional
02
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
David Qualey
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
04:21
Writer: J.S.Bach / Composers: J.S.Bach
03
This Rush of Wings
Metamora
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
04:33
Composers: Pete Sutherland
04
The Holly and the Ivy
Alex De Grassi
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
04:12
Writer: Traditional / Composers: Traditional
05
Carol of the Bells
Windham Hill Artists
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
03:30
Writer: Traditional / Composers: Traditional
06
Shades Of White
Jim Brickman
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
03:00
Writer: Jim Brickman / Composers: Jim Brickman
07
Northern Lights
Lisa Lynne
The Essential Windham Hill Winter's Solstice
04:41
Writer: Brian Keane - Lisa Lynne / Composers: Brian Keane - Lisa Lynne
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