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| 1. | You're Outa Here
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| 2. | Too Good Lookin'
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| 3. | California Street
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| 4. | Gal on the Side Part II :
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| 5. | She's Gettin' Some
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| 6. | In Living Black and White
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| 7. | Alligator
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| 8. | Timeless Rag
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| 9. | Gal on the Side Part I :
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| 10. | .......The Garden Gate
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| 11. | New York City Drag
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| 12. | Jukebox
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| 13. | You and Yours
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| 14. | Cezanne
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Jazz
Recorded at Entourage, Madd Hatter and Visual Rhythm Sound, Los Angeles, California, and Audio Images Recording, Bradenton, Florida
Lorraine Feather (vocals); Dick Hyman, Mike Lang (piano)
NEW YORK CITY DRAG is a Fats Waller tribute album in which Lorraine Feather has set lyrics to classic Fats Waller instrumentals.
Down Beat (1/02, p.50) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Employing Fats Waller's still attractive and meaningful '30s music, the gleaming-voiced, fluid and articulate Feather deftly concocts a variety of mostly contemporary scenarios - many humorous, some disquieting..."
JazzTimes (12/01, p.114) - "...An ambitious salute to Fats Waller that required her to first pen, then perfrom, lyrics molded to a dozen of Waller's classic composiitons..."
Includes liner notes by Charles Champlin.
Jazz singer/lyricist Lorraine Feather led the group 'Full Swing', whose End of the Sky release was a favorite on NAC radio. 'Full Swing' performed at the Monterey, Playboy and Kool Jazz festivals and at Carnegie Hall.
Lorraine's solo release, The Body Remembers, was hailed as "Witty, refreshing---an uncommon maiden voyage." by Jazz Times and "Manifestly brilliant" by London's Cresendo Magazine.
Lorraine has contributed lyrics for songs recorded by Phyllis Hyman, Kenny Rankin, Patti Austin and Diane Schuur. She has also written for television and film since 1992 and has earned seven Emmy nominations.
New York City Dragx is a colection of classic Fats Waller compositions with Lorraine's new lyrics and vocals. The album features lengendary stride pianist Dick Hyman (also the composer for numerous Woody Allen movies), who has accompanied Lorraine in L.A. and New York playing the Waller material, to rave reviews. Pianist Mike Lang led the L.A. sessions. Waller himself is showcased on track #12, which is his original performance of "Smashing Thirds" -- retitled "Cezanne" -- surrounded by live musicians.
Lorraine is the daughter of jazz writer Leonard Feather, and the goddaughter of Billie Holiday.
"Hip and original ... a phenomenon in this city of the overproduced and the undercreative."
--- Tony Gieske, xThe Hollywood Reporter
"What a joy, what a delight -- what a totally unexpected treat! She's puled off a very neat trick."
--- Chip Deffaa, xThe New York Post
"A tour de force. She's simply one of a kind." - Johnny Mandel, xcomposer of "The Shadow of Your Smile"
"Sophisticated and swinging -- Fats would have loved it."
--- Chuck Niles, xKLON
"I've listened umpteen times. It's absolutely wonderful in every way, no kidding."
--- Walter Becker,x Steely Dan
"Stunning...extraordinary, both as compositions and as performances...she sings her way through the tricky passages with a vivacious sense of swing."
--- Don Heckman, the Los Angeles Times |
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