Lyricist/singer Lorraine Feather's work has been heard on numerous records, in films and on television. Her songs have been covered extensively by adult contemporary and jazz artists, including Phyllis Hyman, Kenny Rankin, Patti Austin, Diane Schuur and Cleo Laine. As a jazz singer, Lorraine has recorded eleven albums, three with her vocal trio Full Swing and eight as a soloist. All of her work as a recording artist has featured her own lyrics. Her CDs have received glowing reviews in every major jazz magazine--Jazz Times has called her "a lyrical Dorothy Parker" and her work "pure genius." Dave Frishberg said she is "the best of the new crop of jazz lyricists." Her 2001 release, New York City Drag, featured contemporary lyrics to formerly instrumental pieces written by Fats Waller; she did similar treatments with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn instrumentals on Cafe Society, Such Sweet Thunder , a Russell Ferrante arrangement of the Feather/Tony Morales composition "Five," and an adaptation of a film theme by Nino Rota. As of May 2012, Lorraine is working on a new solo CD for late 2013, and also a new album of stride adaptations as half of the duo Nouveau Stride, with St. Louis pianist Stephanie Trick. The two women have recorded half of an album to be entitled Fourteen, including pieces by James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Willie "The Lion" Smith, with Lorraine's added lyrics, planned for completion in November 2012.
