Café Society

Lorraine Feather

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2005)
• Original Release Date: March 18, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sanctuary
• ASIN: B0007TKH6Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #213,367 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific, July 2, 2003

By	Victor Vail (Rockville, MD USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Café Society (Audio CD)

I tend to take chances on CDs - and almost always am disappointed. There may be one or two good tracks, but after listening to the CD all the way through, I'm done with it - I don't want to play it again.

Not so with this CD.

I bought "Cafe Society,", put it on the CD player - and now play it daily. It's such a true joy to listen to a singer and think to myself "Wow - this girl knows what she's doing." And she does.

Instantly, you zero into her pitch. Her pitch is awesome - always accurate, never falters. Her vocal tone brilliantly clear. Her phrasing is intelligent - while still being emotional. Lorraine Feather is clearly someone who understands the female voice - and enjoys "playing" with it. She is someone - to put it simply - who loves "making music."

Her lyrics are also terrific. There's plenty on this CD to adore & recommend - but my personal favorites: "Something Like My Own," "Love Call," "The Right Idea," & "Cafe Society."

This is a wonderful, wonderful CD. In two words: Buy it!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It should be compulsory to purchaser this CD, June 25, 2003

By	R. Howard "russo42" (London U.K) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Café Society (Audio CD)

This is quite possibly the best contemporary Jazz/Pop vocals album ever made. Anybody who enjoys quality pop and has always wanted to pursue an interest in Jazz, but has felt intimidated from so doing, should listen to this album. It captures all the best features of both musical styles and in the perfect entree to the Jazz genre. This lady should be a huge star !! I cannot recommend this CD highly enough.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some Magnificent Musical Moments, February 21, 2005

By	Rick Cornell "RC" (Reno, Nv USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Café Society (Audio CD)

After listening to the magnificent lyrical moments in Lorraine Feather's "Such Sweet Thunder" and "New York City Drag", I looked forward to more of the same with this album. But this one is a bit of a surprise: this album is likewise magnificent, but its magnificence is in the musical moments.

This is the best album I can think of for background vocals. The team of Morgan Ames, Randy Crenshaw, Michael Mishaw, Shelby Flint, Carmen Twillie, and Ms. Feather herself sounds gorgeous, and is perhaps the highlight of the entire album. They enhance the title cut, "Love Call", "Jungle Rhythm" (Ms. Feather's entry into the Disney tune sweepstakes, from "The Jungle Book II", and a very worthy one) and "Days of Old", and turn these into very special songs. Yet, the voices truly accompany Ms. Feather, rather than overpower her and steal her thunder. Good thing, because Ms. Feather is a terrific singer in her own right, and one who needs to be heard.

The whole album is full of subtle delights like that. I loved Ms. Feather's wordless vocalese on "Love Call", evoking the title of the song. "Something Like My Own" is a gorgeous duet with pianist David Benoit, which evokes that "I'm on the Outside Looking In" feeling beautifully. Equally as gorgeous is the "the more I see you, the more I want to see you" feeling of the set-ender, "The Way We Say Goodbye," complete with some beautiful fills by trumpeter Oscar Brashear. And the tom-tom beat with the voices and instruments bring an almost feral feeling to "Jungle Rhythm" and "Big Fun." Finally, this album has original Feather vocalese to my favorite Duke Ellington tune of all time, "Rockin in Rhythm", and for me is worth the price of the album alone.

Between the three albums, I'm very slightly partial to "Thunder" and "Drag." But that's like saying I'm slightly partial to amesthysts and rubies over tanzanite. If you like tanzanite at $12.95, I recommend this album to you. For that matter, I recommend all three. Lorraine Feather is just a terrific artist, and one who is criminally underrated to date. RC