February 2010

Interview

Thursday 2/25 at around 10pm PST I'll be interviewed on KGNU (Denver/Boulder and streaming online)

Ages, Recent Reviews

 Full of artistry and humor. . . . Feather's back-up musicians easily keep pace with her strong, smooth vocals . . . their originality meets Feather where she lives, in an intelligent, witty, sometimes pathos-ridden world. That, in the end, is what shines on Ages. This is not a 'chick's album.' Yes, there are the inevitable songs about significant relationships, but none are hackneyed or gender-driven. . . . Lorraine Feather has produced a polished yet very engaging look at this life that may leave a smile as well as remembering those long-lost secrets that we thought no one knew but us.

— Elena Gillespie, All About Jazz » Read full review online.

 For us, the star new release is Lorraine Feather's latest: Ages, which finds her with an assortment of top class musicians . . .Shelly Berg (the phrase 'I Forgot to Have Children' moves from the souvenir-goods counter to the world of song), Eddie Arkin, the great Dick Hyman . . . ("Scrabble" [is] based on a ragtime/stride piece of Dick's own called "Barrel of Keys"), Bela Fleck, Russell Ferrante - and Felix Mendelssohn! . . . Lorraine's a natural storyteller . . . the mistress of the legitimate lyric trade...also one of the most wonderfully athletic and clear-toned singers we know, delivering her clever verbal conceits with marvelous clarity.

— Russell Davies, BBC

 Lorraine Feather is a multi-talented writer and singer who has the ability to touch your heart strings or to start your feet tapping with a more than clever bop inspired vocal. . . .This album is more than just hip, it has an underlying message that comes across as both adept, witty and scintillating . . . worth the 5 stars and more.

— John Gilbert, eJazzNews

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