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:  Tiptoes Artist:  Max Highstein Website:  www.MaxHighsteinMusic.com Audiences will recognize there is a familiarity about Max Highstein's music.  Like these are tunes that have come into their lives before while they are standing on line in a store, sitting in a doctor's waiting room, eating dinner at an upscale restaurant, or watching a TV show or commercial.  His latest outing Tiptoes is clad with music that generates a casual feel with its warm temperament and blissful aesthetics palatable for the general public's consumption.  Highstein has been perceived as a New Age artist, and Tiptoes 's attributes fit the genre's criteria.  But the music is more overarching, owning traits emblematic of ambient jazz, sonic pop, soft rock, and R&B/soul.  Simply put, Highstein's music is a melting pot of influences that appeals to all types of societies.  The swirling notes of Highstein's sax are nestled alongside Ed Willett's furling cello c...