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In 2015 Coastal Jazz and Blues Society in Vancouver, BC commissioned Peggy Lee to compose a suite of music for a new 10-piece ensemble. The intent was to create an ensemble including some of the most active and interesting improvisers on the Vancouver scene, both veterans and younger players, all highly accomplished artists and leaders of their own projects. Echo Painting was premiered at the 2016 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. With many colors to draw upon, the music is multi-layered, texturally varied and melodically rich. From driving rhythmic vamps to incendiary improvisation to achingly beautiful melodic compositions, Peggy Lee takes anything she touches to a deeper and more artful level creating "music that combines the timeless and the otherworldly in equal measure" (Georgia Straight). The band is: Peggy (cello), Brad Turner (trumpet & flugelhorn), Jon Bentley (soprano & tenor sax), John Paton (tenor sax), Roderick Murray (trombone), Meredith Bates (violin), Cole Schmidt (electric & acoustic guitar), Bradshaw Pack (pedal steel), James Meger (electric & acoustic bass) and Dylan van der Schyff (drums, percussion & drum machine). Robin Holcomb is guest vocalist on The Band's "Unfaithful Servant".

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Canadian cellist Peggy Lee has been steadily building an impressive discography. Invitation [...] encompasses a broad stylistic range, revealing influences as disparate as folksy Americana and exotic Afro-pop--though Lee's harmonically sophisticated arrangements expertly balance composed and improvised elements, yielding a cohesive sum greater than its parts...a compelling, multilayered statement from an artist on the rise.

     —Troy Collins, All About Jazz

Albums like Invitation are a rare breed...an accessible, eclectic mix of tender harmonies and angular improvisation that touches on a number of stylistic influences yet remains a strong, cohesive experience.

     —Francois Marchand, Vancouver Sun

...an enchanting mix of avant-garde jazz and modern folk and classical musics. This is music that triggers brain synapses while also sounding pretty...creating a tableau of hot and cold, pastoral and scarred...

     —Dave Sumner, Bird is the Worm