Jazz Articles about Mark Winkler

Mark Winkler: Sweet Spot

by C. Michael Bailey
July 9, 2011

For all of his musical bona fides, Mark Winkler is no more a jazz singer than Jim Caruso or Michael Bublé. In spite of the fact that he attracted the best of the best in his sidemen--bassist Robert Hurst, pianist Billy Childs and drummer Greg Hutchinson--for Sweet Spot, he remains something else. The point being, that whatever kind of singer Winker is, it is beside the point. Like Caruso's Swing Set (Yellow Sound Label, 2011), Sweet Spot captures the art ...

Mark Winkler: Till I Get It Right

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 18, 2009

Till I Get It Right è l'ultima fatica di Mark Winkler. Il cantante, di base a Los Angeles, firma dodici tracce che faranno la gioia degli appassionati della forma-canzone più contaminata dal jazz. Ma non solo dal jazz, perché la voce limpida di Winkler passa rapidamente da un tema dalla melodia accattivante a capitoli dai contorni più smaccatamente bluesy, alla scattante dinamicità di contesti sudamericani o di trascinanti swing, con la naturalezza di chi ha firmato brani cantati poi da ...

Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troup

by Dave Hughes
December 29, 2003

All About Jazz: You've recently released Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troup. What motivated you to devote an entire CD to Bobby's works?

Mark Winkler: I really wasn't planning to do a whole CD of Bobby Troup tunes, I was looking for some outside material to fill out a CD of my originals. His work was always something I'd been meaning to check out a little more, and when I did, I fell in love with it-and I couldn't narrow it ...

Mark Winkler: Sings Bobby Troup

by Mark Corroto
March 4, 2003

While the tie between jazz and show tunes might be Tin Pan Alley in New York, the West Coast has been the inspiration for hipster song craftsmen. Singer Mark Winkler has made a recording of the quintessential Los Angeles composer Bobby Troup’s music, reviving much of the 1950s and '60s charm.

Like Diana Krall’s All Of You tribute to Nat King Cole, Winkler’s Sings Bobby Troup opens a capsule to a time when outward expressions of hipness ...

Mark Winkler: Easy the Hard Way

by Dave Hughes
September 1, 2000

Mark Winkler, one of today's most underrecognized vocalists, has some decent CDs in his discography. He released three excellent contemporary CDs on Chase Music Group in the late eighties: Ebony Rain, Hottest Night of the Year , and Color of Love , all of which are well worth seeking out. 1995's brilliant Tales From Hollywood was jazzier and artsier, while 1998's City Lights was admittedly geared towards the smooth jazz airwaves in an attempt to gain wider visibility. But I ...

Mark Winkler: Easy the Hard Way

by Dave Nathan
September 1, 2000

P>Long a fixture on the West Coast smooth jazz scene, Mark Winkler for his 6th album moves closer to contemporary adult pop seasoned with a large dash of straight ahead jazz, with a style which combines the hip Mark Murphy, the irony of Dave Frishberg with the respect for melody of Tony Bennett. Accompanied by sympathetic musicians, Winkler story tells his way through a play list of twelve tunes, seven of which he wrote. And a prolific composer is Mr. ...