This is by and large lovely music, to be sure, but to paraphrase a Burger King ad from years gone by, “Where’s the jazz?” Aside from a handful of perfunctory solos by soprano saxophonist Chad Eby and pianist Joey Calderazzo, there isn’t much here. Instead, composer / arranger Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra canvass the sort of rarefied landscapes reminiscent of “music to (fill in the blank) to” by such moonlit mid-twentieth century maestros as Percy Faith, Mantovani, Bobby Hackett, Jackie Gleason and their peers.
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