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About Me

To see "Lee Feldman, Lee Feldman," a documentary about Lee, go to http://www.vimeo.com/630248
"Lee Feldman's "I've Forgotten Everything" is unlike anything else in cotemporary pop. If you have a passion for good songwriting, you need this album. - Stereophile
"Lee Feldman uses a Tin Pan Alley bounce to make twisted or troubled situations sound like parlor songs." - NY Times
"Chances are his finely tuned records will continue to be discovered by discerning listeners years down the road." - Chicago Tribune
"Reviving a bit of Brill Building artistry, this New York piano man makes you think and swoon and hum all at once." - Village Voice
"Lee Feldman plays the piano in just the dry, subtle, understated manner that his dry, subtle, understatedly hilarious songs call for." - Atlantic Monthly
"Lee Feldman brings to mind the classic early work of Randy Newman both in terms of timeless songcrafting and ambitious arranging. The often haunting Living It All Wrong gets most everything right." - Rolling Stone
"Feldman's poignant and occasionally disquieting vignettes mine complex truths, finding romance and heartbreak in the mundane details and rituals of daily life. . . . A winner in any year." - Time Out, New York
" Keep in mind how long it took for people to figure out the greatness of Tom Waits and Randy Newman, and keep your eye on Lee." - CMJ Online

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/14/2006
Band Website: http://www.leefeldman.com
Band Members: Lee Feldman, Piano and Vocals
Byron Isaacs, Bass
Bill Dobrow, Drums
Influences: Beatles, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Robert Wyatt, Theodore Bikel, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rogers, Beethoven, Morton Feldman, Al Green, Burt Bacharach, Sly & The Family Stone, Lenny Bruce, Freud, G_d, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, John Updike, NY Review of Books, Bill Evans, Bob Dorough, Mose Allison, Elliott Smith, Liz Phair, Joni Mitchell, Glenn Gould, Kurt Weil, Ornette Coleman, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Fats Waller, Robert Johnson, Tiny Tim, The Monkees, Carl Orff, Charles Ives, Paul Bley, Jimmy Reed, Leonard Cohen, Dr. John, Ray Charles, Ramsey Lewis, Loudon Wainwright III, Steely Dan, The Band, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Ahmad Jamal, Bach, Roland Hanna, Cat Stevens, Fred Fox, John Ogdon, Carl Strommen, George Faulkner, Mozart, Kinky Friedman, Woody Allen, Astro Boy, Officer Joe Bolton, Sonny Fox, etc.
Sounds Like: ". . . unlike anything else in contemporary pop." - Stereophile Magazine
Record Label: Urban Myth Recording Collective

My Blog

Tired of being yourself?

Just today, Solomon D. Moses of Philadelphia, PA officially became me . . . and you can too! It's quick, easy, and most important of all -- safe! http://leefeldman.com/belee.php
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 21:26:00 GMT

what i think

For us to succeed as a species, the next phase of human economics has to be sustainable and therefore centered on planetary needs rather than a system that grows out of political constructions. All la...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:27:00 GMT

orchids

i am the best songwriter in the world. today i went to the bronx botanical garden with my family. we saw the orchid show. carried the stroller up and down a lot of stairs. i think about death all ...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:26:00 GMT

popeater

fame, fashion and death converged today on manhattan's upper east side when matthew broderick's baby blue backpack became the focal point of a surreal and ugly scene. "i've got a plane to catch," som...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:30:00 GMT

elliot tokar feldman as "joe cool"

elliot as "joe cool"
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:54:00 GMT

i told you so

Desolation is blowing in the air, but Im feeling pretty good. Ive got a healthy, beautiful family and Im into my teaching and creative work. Were watching the world fall apart before our eyes. C...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:21:00 GMT

winter trees

i can't describe how the trees are right now. there are 2 of them outside our window. tall, bare, against a midnight winter, cloudy sky, pinkish-purplish white i guess. the smallest branches are so...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:11:00 GMT

barbers

i never know if you're supposed to talk to barbers. with less and less hair that's increasingly gray falling in my lap, what am i supposed to talk about? my soul?
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:35:00 GMT

Airplane, the video

check it out here!
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:53:00 GMT

contrary

i hate to be contrary (actually i like it), but americans shouldn't be so self-congratulating. we're in the hole we're in because many of us voted (twice!) for someone who made all the wrong decision...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:16:00 GMT