jazz2love

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:  Vulnerability Artist:  Eric Bell Label:  Self-Released Website:  https://ericbellmusic.com Vulnerability , the debut recording from pianist-composer Eric Bell is a compilation of multi-faceted soundscapes adorned in reverb guitar, jaunty keys and sleek saxophone toots.  Accompanying Bell are bass player Cole Sainburg, drummer Nico Vasquez, guitarist Dean Anbar, and tenor saxophonist Eric Hirschhorn. "Start" opens the disc with glittery synth effects creating a bevy of cinematic raptures.  A choreography is formed with Anbar's guitar riffs supporting Bell's repeated ostinatos played on piano and Hammond organ.  Bell follows up with "The Way You Look," quilted in percussive beats kneaded by improvised doodles on the saxophone, seguing into glistening keys. Bell's interpretation of Wayne Shorter's "Witch Hunt" is sheath in a cascade of jaunty keys and bopping beats.  The musicians produce an interactive environment as one musician acts...