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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. ...