Lorraine Feather (born Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather; September 10, 1948) is an American singer, lyricist, and songwriter.
Early life
A native of Manhattan, she was born to jazz writer
Leonard Feather
Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.
Biography
Feather was born in London, England, into an u ...
and his wife Jane, a former big band singer. She was named Billie Jane Lee Lorraine for her godmother
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop s ...
, her mother's former roommate
Peggy Lee, and for the song "
Sweet Lorraine
"Sweet Lorraine" is a popular song with music by Cliff Burwell and words by Mitchell Parish that was published in 1928 and has become a jazz standard. It is written in F major and has an AABA structure.
A version by Teddy Wilson charted in Octobe ...
".
Three of her albums have been nominated for
Grammy Awards in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category: ''Ages'' (2010), ''Attachments'' (2013), and ''Flirting with Disaster'' (2015).
Discography
* ''Joanne Grauer Introducing Lorraine Feather'' (MPS, 1978)
* ''Sweet Lorraine'' (Concord Jazz, 1978)
* ''The Body Remembers'' (Bean Bag, 1996)
* ''New York City Drag'' (Rhombus, 2000)
* ''Such Sweet Thunder'' (Sanctuary, 2003)
* ''Cafe Society'' (Sanctuary, 2003)
* ''Dooji Wooji'' (Sanctuary, 2005)
* ''Language'' (Jazzed Media, 2008)
* ''Ages'' (Jazzed Media, 2010)
* ''Tales of the Unusual'' (Jazzed Media, 2012)
* ''Attachments'' (Jazzed Media, 2013)
* ''Flirting with Disaster'' (Jazzed Media, 2015)
* ''Math Camp'' (Relarion, 2018)
References
External links
Official site''Ages'' review (Michael G. Nastos), AllMusic''Tales of the Unusual'' review (Ken Dryden), AllMusic''Dooji Wooji'' review (Christopher Loudon), ''JazzTimes'' 2005''Language'' feature (Susan Stamberg), NPR 2008*
ttp://www.elmoremagazine.com/2015/10/reviews/albums/lorraine-feather/ ''Flirting with Disaster'' review (Brenda Hillegas), ''Elmore'' magazine 2015''Math Camp'' review (Christopher Loudon), ''JazzTimes'' 2018
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Living people
1948 births
People from Manhattan
Jazz musicians from New York (state)
Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
American women jazz singers
American women singer-songwriters
American jazz singers
American people of English-Jewish descent
American pop musicians
Jewish American musicians
Jewish American songwriters
Jewish women singers
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American women
Sanctuary Records artists
Concord Records artists