“I was born a Texan and raised a Baptist. My first music influences were hymns, honky tonks and Buddy Holly.”

- JDH

JD has been in the studio.   Check out jazz singer Beth Ullman’s new CD “I Have to Dream” which Hinton co-produced with Beth.  It features the title track plus two other songs, Beautiful Woman and One by One (Day by Day).  Those songs co-written with Rick Solem had new arrangements by Bill Howard for this bossa-jazz session. Walk With Me, a song Beth and JD wrote last summer, is also on the CD.  She’s terrific.

THANK YOU for two SOLD OUT shows:  JDH BACKSTAGE @ THE HIPPODROME was in Waco, Texas.  You had to know someone to get invited.  There was a password to get in and the audience came through an unmarked back door they learned about from E-mail.   Once inside they found (what Hinton calls) the Wide Brim Chili House where the motto is:  Music  No Beans

The new Mark Medoff film, REFUGE, begins filming this July in Las Cruces, New Mexico.  Ginger Perkins is producing. Hinton will be doing the film’s score and soundtrack.  Expect more musical synergy as Hinton teams again with collaborator Ross Vannelli.  You can keep up with some of this progress if you follow twitter.com/jdhinton or continue to check this website.