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Mark Winkler

Mark Winkler is a platinum award winning singer/lyricist who has had over 200 of his songs recorded and/or sung by such artists as Dianne Reeves, Randy Crawford, Liza Minnelli, Bob Dorough, Jackie Ryan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lea Di Lauria and Britain’s Claire Martin. He also has charted high on the Jazz Week charts with his last 4 vocal releases. He was also included as a 2014 ”Rising Star” Male Jazz Vocalist in Downbeat Magazine.

He will be releasing his new CD “Jazz and Other Four Letter Words in August 2015. After his last two recordings that were tributes to Laura Nyro and the musicians of the 50s West Coast Sound, this CD once again finds Mark mixing his own originals with songs by the likes of Paul Simon, Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough and Rodgers and Hart. He is once again joined on this recording by Cheryl Bentyne for two songs, the duo released the highly regarded ‘West Cost Cool” CD in 2013. For his new project, he has an all-star cast of musicians headed by John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton, Larry Koonse, Jamieson Trotter , Pat Kelley, Mike Shapiro, Dan Lutz and Bob Sheppard.

In June of 2015 he has four of his lyrics featured on the new David Benoit/Jane Monheit CD “2 In Love” which just received a four star rating from All Music Guide. This comes on the heels of more and more of his songs being recorded by the best singers in Jazz.

He has played in clubs in Los Angeles, in New York at the Blue Note and Birdland and has sung in London, Tokyo and Australia. As part of “West Coast Cool” with Cheryl Bentyne he has performed at the Syracuse Jazz Festival and in Tuscon, Arizona, Toronto, Canada and Madison Wisconsin among many other cities.

As an educator he teaches lyric writing “Crafting Great Lyrics: A Songwriters Workshop” at UCLA extension and at the Los Angeles School of Songwriting. He writes columns for Music Connection magazine and does interviews and reviews for LA Jazz Scene.

He also produced Joanne Tatham’s CD “Out of my Dreams” which reached number 25 on the Jazz charts this year. He is preparing to go in the studio producing new projects for Lauren White and Miki Purnell.



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"The star among stars is Winkler's exceptional voice, one possessing that indefinable quality that makes it memorable without exactly understanding what is so superb about it. The Laura Nyro Projectbetrays the care and love Winkler and company put into the session; this is an excellent vocal outing by any measure." Allaboutjazz.com "...one of those special projects when all the stars are in perfect alignment." Critical Jazz "Finding the jazz in Nyro's New York street roots, Winkler does a mighty job of crafting something that would have been jive in lesser hands

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Album Discography

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Late Bloomin' Jazzman

Cafe Pacific Records
2022

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Old Friends

Cafe Pacific Records
2021

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I'm With You

Cafe Pacific Records
2019

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Eastern Standard Time

Cafe Pacific Records
2018

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The Company I Keep

Cafe Pacific Records
2017

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Jazz and Other Four...

Cafe Pacific Records
2015

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Eastern Standard Time

From: Eastern Standard Time
By Mark Winkler

Walk Between the Raindrops

From: The Company I Keep
By Mark Winkler

Stone Soul Picnic

From: The Laura Nyro Project
By Mark Winkler

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