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Album:  Forever Stories of: Moving Parties Artists:  Peggy Lee and Cole Schmidt Label:  Earshift Music Website: https://peggyleecoleschmidt.bandcamp.com/album/forever-stories-of-moving-parties Coming together in 2019, the duo of cellist Peggy Lee and guitarist Cole Schmidt are artisans of ambient jazz.  Their recording Forever Stories of: Moving Parties is a vision of fluid soundscapes accented by stimulating effects.  Hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, the pair write improvised phrases that open up the listener's cerebral senses, tantalizing the imagination and offering insight into otherworldy emanations. The chord schemes move like ghostly apparitions, embodying phantom-like figments, free floating abstractions rising and withdrawing at random.  The notes posture glides upright in luminous hues.  Schmidt remarks in a press notice, "The initial concept for the record had to do with hosting a party that included all kinds of people and charact...

Album:  Where Flamingos Fly Artists:  Naama Gheber Label:  La-Reserve Music Label Websites:  https://www.naamasings.com   Female jazz singers of yesteryear such as Sarah Vaughan and Peggy Lee can rest comfortably seeing vocalist Naama Gheber pick up the reins where these ladies left off.  Gheber's forthcoming release Where Flamingos Fly from La-Reserve Music Label is loaded with charismatic swing and torchlight warmth as she hones an intimate and friendly relationship with her audience.  Her recreations of nostalgic melodies and jazz standards extends their life span and allure Gheber's vocal strut has a poised saunter gently supported by Bruce Barth's piano stride cruising sensually along Cindy Walker and Eddy Arnold's sentimental tune "You Don't Know Me," emoting an evocative lilt shrouded in a warm, bluesy ambience.  Gheber eloquently muses, "You think you know me well, but you don't know me, no you don't know the one, who dreams of you at...

Album:  Lemon Twist Artist:  Linda Carrone Website:  https://www.lindacarone.com https://lindacarone.bandcamp.com Roots music vocalist Linda Carrone once again charms audiences with her graceful style, feline phrasing and sultry vocalese on her 2023 release Lemon Twist .  A blues stylist reminiscent of vintage performers like Billie Holiday, Rosemary Clooney, and Peggy Lee, Carrone integrates the finery of jazz with the unpretentious melodicism of roots music embellished by a swig of Latin stimulants.     Her repertoire focuses on forgotten gems, classic ballroom jazz, swing standards, and cabaret blues.  Her treatment of the title track, written by Bobby Troup, puts a flirtatious edge on her vocals that grabs the listener's attention as she percolates, "Here is a word to the wise / The top dieticians in town insist / The best source of vitamin C there can be / Is a lemon twist."  Changing to a sultry swagger along "Having It All," Carr...