Peggy Lee - Echo Painting (2018) [Hi-Res]

The idea, says Lee, was “to bring together some of my longstanding band members with some of the younger players that I had recently begun to collaborate with. I wasn't thinking about specific instruments really, just the players that I was excited about working with. The name to me simply speaks of our efforts to make sense of our world through artistic practice. And of course there are echoes of much of the music that has been meaningful to me over the years.” (She cites Carla Bley and Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra as inspirations.) With many colours to draw upon, the music is multi-layered and texturally varied, featuring driving rhythmic vamps, incendiary improvisation and sometimes achingly beautiful melodic compositions.

Brad Turner - trumpet & flugelhorn
Jon Bentley - soprano & tenor sax
John Paton - tenor sax
Roderick Murray - trombone
Meredith Bates - violin
Peggy Lee - cello
Cole Schmidt - electric & acoustic guitar
Bradshaw Pack - pedal steel
James Meger - electric & acoustic bass
Dylan van der Schyff - drums, percussion & Yamaha RX-15 drum machine
Robin Holcomb - voice on “The Unfaithful Servant” (bonus track)