LORRAINE FEATHER

Lorraine Feather has wowed the jazz world with her latest recording Dooji Wooji.  Down Beat Magazine calls her “energetic, enchanting and exceptional.”  The daughter of the famous critic and songwriter Leonard Feather (and goddaughter of Billie Holiday), Lorraine has exploded onto the jazz scene with her ingenious lyrics, her dazzling voice, and her exceptional performances. Lorraine is this generation’s celebrated jazz lyricist and singer.

Lorraine’s new album, Dooji Wooji (May, 2005, Sanctuary Records), is a natural progression from the projects she has done since 1999, which have featured a combination of well-known instrumental pieces with her contemporary lyrics (Fats Waller in her 1999 New York City Drag for Rhombus Records; Duke Ellington in last year’s Such Sweet Thunder on Sanctuary) as well as all-new songs in a classic jazz vein on her 2002 Sanctuary release Cafe Society.

When writing and recording Such Sweet Thunder (2004), Lorraine became intrigued by the “small big band” sound favored by Duke Ellington, as well as other 1930’s band leaders such as John Kirby and Benny Goodman. She decided to create an album of original material that would focus on the mood and instrumentation of this era, while incorporating various modern elements including, as always, her lyrics. Her collaborators for this project became longtime co-writer Eddie Arkin, pianist Russell Ferrante (of the group Yellowjackets), arranger Bill Elliott, and pianist Shelly Berg.

In addition to Lorraine’s highly acclaimed performances and albums, she has accumulated dozens of credits and seven Emmy nominations for her work in film and television as a lyricist.  In 2003 she wrote the lyrics for Disney’s The Jungle Book 2, and in 2004, for Julie Andrews’ first onscreen performance in many years in The Princess Diaries 2. She is currently working on lyrics for the My Little Pony film series, and has been commissioned by New York composer Stefania deKenessey to provide lyrics for her opera of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.