Dooji Wooji

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
· "Lorraine Father has dazzled us as both a singer and a lyricist. Pure genius." - Jazz Times · Singer/Lyricist Lorraine Father’s new album, Dooji Wooji, is a natural progression from her previous projects which combined well-known instrumental pieces with her own contemporary lyrics; Fats Waller on New York City Drag (1999), Duke Ellington on Such Sweet Thunder (2004) and all-new songs in a classic jazz vein on Café Society (2002). · Dooji Wooji focuses on the mood and instrumentation of the 1930s, while incorporating new lyrics. Her collaborators for this project included longtime co-writer Eddie Arkin, pianist Russell Ferrante (of the group Yellowjackets), arranger Bill Elliot, and pianist Shelly Berg. Dooji Wooji also includes four Ellington tracks set with her lyrics. · Besides her life as a recording and performing artist, Lorraine works as a lyricist for film and television and has earned seven Emmy nominations. In 2003 she wrote lyrics for Disney’s feature film The Jungle Book 2 and in 2004, for Julie Andrew’s first onscreen performance in many years in The Princess Diaries 2. She is currently working on lyrics for My Little Pony, produced by Bold Entertainment for Hasbro Toys. · Lorraine is the daughter of the late jazz writer Leonard Feather and the goddaughter of Billie Holiday.

Tracks:

Symphonic Sketches: Noel
'The Vikings' (Edited Version)
Spaseniye sodelal
A CHORUS LINE: A Chorus Line Medley
Requiem: 'Lux Aeterna'
Sinfonietta: Finale
'Moten Swing'
'Dooji Wooji'
'Concerto For Clarinet'
'Moonglow' - Excerpt (Analogue Master To Sony 1630)
'Moonglow' - Excerpt (Analoque Master To HDCD )
Requiem: 'Lux Aeterna' - Excerpt (Analoque Master To Sony 1630)
Requiem: 'Lux Aeterna' - Excerpt (Analoque Master To HDCD)
Trittico: Finale (Sony - KOJ 701ES Digital Master)
Trittico: Finale (HDCD Digital Master)

Customer Reviews:

hdcd sampler 2.......2007-01-12

Sound is very good on the home stereo. Perfect if you have a hdcd player. Sounds really good on the discman as well. This disc has a longer playing time than the first.

HDCD adds sound value.......2002-07-15

I bought this CD to go shopping for high end speakers. Not knowing really what HDCD was or how it sounds. Well, I also took along regular 16/44 CDs as well.

Conclusion: huge difference in sound... I would say moderately improved dynamic range, but more importantly, the resolution of the sound. You can hear (on track 3) the chorus taking breaths... and on certain systems even individuals taking breaths at fractionally separate points in time during a rest beat.

With good electronics and your preferred selection, and I mean near reference quality electronics, the HDCD sound MOVES you. I don't know how SACD sounds, but when I get my new room together, HDCD is definitely going to be there.

FYI, I listened to HDCD on a mark levinson 390S... so HDCD had the benefit of excellent D/A.

My immediate favourites are tracks 2 and 3. I must go find more Russian vocal type stuff... very cool sounds. Track 2 (Vikings) is amazing... the pipe organ wants to bring down the house if you run it thru 350w/channel and Wilson Watt Puppies.

I Was Skeptical, but Hearing is Believing.......2001-04-06

I bought a Toshiba 5109 last year for the progressive component video capability. I knew that it had a HDCD decoder but that fact didn't make much of an impression at the time. I didn't buy it for that reason and it wasn't a factor in my evaluation of DVD players. I was wrong, it should have been.

Two months ago my interest in possibly buying a SACD and DVD-Audio player caused me to take a look at this older but more established 2-channel technology...

I bought a couple classical recordings of some favorite works (various Copland and the Bruckner 9th) that were well reviewed. I was stunned at how exceptionally good they sounded, as close to a live performance in a good hall in a good seat as I have ever experience in non-live setting, but was this the exceptional quality of the recoding engineering only or was the HDCD technology a factor, too?

The final proof was this sampler, which has comparisons of the same material in regular 16-bit format and HDCD. I can't begin to describe the incredible difference it makes. I hesitate to say it, but the words "profound difference" comes to immediately to mind.

I had always been skeptical about audiophile comments about how something was lost when the industry moved away from analog vinyl to CD format. I no longer am.

One caution if you play this CD, track 7 has exceptionally wide dynamic range. Luckily, I am cautious and my system can handle huge transients, but I think I may have melted the windows near one of my speakers -grin-, the brass sound is white hot.

I can see why Microsoft purchased this technology.

George

Average customer rating:

A "Must-Have" in your CD Collection

Lorraine Feather's Dooji Wooji

Truly a "fresh new voice" in jazz

fresh new voice

GrownUpMusic.com recommended!

Dooji Wooji
Lorraine Feather
Manufacturer: Sanctuary
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00097DXU8
Release Date: 2005-05-10

Tracks:

Calistoga Bay
Cicada Time
Remembering to Breathe
I Know the Way to Brooklyn
On the Esplanade
Sweet Honolulu
Once Bitten
A Ramble Through the Park
Indiana Lana
Shameful
Tryin to Get Over
Happy You Were Here

Album Description

· "Lorraine Father has dazzled us as both a singer and a lyricist. Pure genius." - Jazz Times · Singer/Lyricist Lorraine Father's new album, Dooji Wooji, is a natural progression from her previous projects which combined well-known instrumental pieces with her own contemporary lyrics; Fats Waller on New York City Drag (1999), Duke Ellington on Such Sweet Thunder (2004) and all-new songs in a classic jazz vein on Café Society (2002). · Dooji Wooji focuses on the mood and instrumentation of the 1930s, while incorporating new lyrics. Her collaborators for this project included longtime co-writer Eddie Arkin, pianist Russell Ferrante (of the group Yellowjackets), arranger Bill Elliot, and pianist Shelly Berg. Dooji Wooji also includes four Ellington tracks set with her lyrics. · Besides her life as a recording and performing artist, Lorraine works as a lyricist for film and television and has earned seven Emmy nominations. In 2003 she wrote lyrics for Disney's feature film The Jungle Book 2 and in 2004, for Julie Andrew's first onscreen performance in many years in The Princess Diaries 2. She is currently working on lyrics for My Little Pony, produced by Bold Entertainment for Hasbro Toys. · Lorraine is the daughter of the late jazz writer Leonard Feather and the goddaughter of Billie Holiday.

Customer Reviews:

A "Must-Have" in your CD Collection.......2005-11-28

I first heard Lorraine Feather's voice while driving in Seattle and listening to the jazz station. The song was "Remembering to Breathe". My first thought was "What a beautiful voice". Then I started listening to the lyrics -- at which point my second thought was "I've GOT to get this CD. This song is so poignant and captures the essence of both my occupation and my belief system". Now, how often does that happen? To be honest, that song actually made me both cry and smile -- it was that beautiful. So, I took myself to the store, came out with "Dooji Wooji" and popped the CD into my car CD player. You know how, sometimes when you buy a CD for one song, the rest of the CD is just so-so? Not so with "Dooji Wooji". The ENTIRE CD is fantastic. Lorraine Feather's lyrics show sensitivity, heart, soul and a keen sense of humor. Her voice is superb -- so pure and rich -- you savor every single word. Then there's the arrangements and orchestrations. What an amazing group of musicians she has assembled -- Billy Elliott, Eddie Arkin, Shelly Berg, Russ Ferrante...I am now a huge fan and have since purchased other Lorraine Feather CDs, but it is "Dooji Wooji" that initially stole my heart. I will be giving this CD to my dearest friends for Christmas so that they too can experience hours of listening pleasure!

Lorraine Feather's Dooji Wooji.......2005-09-06

Despite the strange title this is a superior musical offering from this talented singer. The third cut is an especially
delicate and expressive piece.

Truly a "fresh new voice" in jazz.......2005-09-04

Here, in the early 21st Century, jazz singing seems to have evolved (devolved?) into white chanteuses singing swing-styled numbers: Diane Schuur, Diane Kraal, Madeleine Peyroux, Dena DeRose and Lorraine Feather among them. Of course, however, there is a wealth of talent difference between them, as well as a sliding scale of listenability. Schuur and Kraal, for instance, have (to my ears) unpleasant voices but swing like mad; Peyroux, though she plays fine jazz guitar to accompany herself, basically does the most letter-perfect Billie Holiday imitation I have ever heard (though I do love her versions of "Was I?" and "Dance Me to the End of Love"); and DeRose is, far and away, the greatest overall female jazz talent we have seen since the flowering of Toshiko Akiyoshi, sort of a modern-day feminine Nat King Cole.

Lorraine Feather, daughter of one of the most famous jazz critics of the past century, grew up wealthy and wanting nothing. She also grew up totally immersed in jazz, as well as somewhat lonely and remote. As the child of a famous jazz scribe, something great was expected of her, a talent that did not blossom for many years. As someone who received, in her own words, "brains but not beauty," she was socially ostracized in the exclusive schools she went to, often isolated during her growing-up period.

But Lorraine has triumphed, and in a way that I'm not sure her famous father would have envisioned. She has become an excellent jazz singer - more on her quite unique style in a moment - but, more importantly, she has become the single greatest writer of vocalize lyrics in the entire history of jazz. There is not a single track on this album that does not contain brilliant, touching, funny or wry lyrics; and Feather is not only adept at re-imaging the music of Duke Ellington (five numbers on this CD alone) or Fats Waller: seven pieces here are original numbers written for her to "play with," and they inspire some of her finest words (pride of place, for me personally, goes to "Remembering to Breathe").

Lorraine's style lies somewhere between the straight-but-swinging style of any number of jazz singers (Carmen MacRae, Lee Wiley, Rosie Clooney, etc.) and the more varied improvising of singers like Ella, Sarah, Connee Boswell or Sheila Jordan. She has evolved a style that eschews scatting or overt pushing of the voice; her tone rides effortlessly on the breath, wrapped totally around the lyrics and projecting an inner warmth that is far more attractive than the swinging-but-brassy style of Schuur. In short, there are moments when the listener suddenly realizes, to his or her surprise, that Lorraine Feather sounds like no one else. And yes, that IS a compliment.

This disc is very highly recommended. I loved every single track except the last one - a little too sedate of a closer for my taste, and the weakest music on the disc, but not weak enough to warrant my giving it less than 5 stars.

fresh new voice.......2005-08-14

listening to internet jazz sites can not only be a great experience if you love jazz like i do but also can be an enlightening experience. especially when you discover an artist like lorraine feather. i am usually not a fan of original music i prefer standards but this cd is loaded with exceptional lyrics and great orchestral arrangements. from the whimsical calistoga bay and i know the way to brooklyn . her voice is as fresh as the country air and her broadway influence is evident in her lyrics. the most haunting beautiful song is HAPPY YOU WERE HERE which will become a standard for me i am sure its designed as a love song but i cant help but think of my late father when i hear it i listen to it over and over thanks lorraine for such a beautiful song .

GrownUpMusic.com recommended!.......2005-07-23

When Billie Holiday is your godmother, the trickle-down effect is inevitable. In fact, you almost expect Lady Day to show up on "Dooji Wooji" for a guest vocal. Feather, an extraordinary lyricist and vocalist, has crafted a musical time capsule that takes you back to the Big Band era. Her jazz is old school, filled with swingin' rhythms, playful lyrics and sweet singing. And she's no slouch at vocalese (the art of writing lyrics to an instrumental jazz song). The first track, "Calistoga Bay," turns Duke Ellington's "Harlem Air Shaft" into a playful romp that's such a perfect fit, it's hard not to imagine Sir Duke and Lady Feather banging it out at the piano together. Close your eyes, and you can picture Feather fronting a big band, singing into a boxy microphone and filling the dance floor.

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