Mark Murphy at BIRDLAND THREE NIGHTS ONLY...

9 p.m. and 11 p.m. sets
$30. cover, $10 minimum
@ Birdland

315 West 44th St @ 8th Avenue
Tel: 212-581-3080
reservations reccommended

...a definitive jazz singer. He scats with bravado. He improvises melodically, harmonically, rhythmically, and with the lyrics. Murphy can break hearts with a ballad, plumb the deepest blues, bossa like a Brazilian, or swing harder and hipper than just about anyone. --Michael Bourne, Singers Unlimited, WBGO

In an all too infrequent Manhattan appearance, Mark Murphy, the quiet legend of jazz, opened a three-night Birdland stand that could easily be assessed as a master class in the rare art of jazz singing... Defining the fine art of jazz singing has always been a formidable task. Mark Murphy is a living textbook on the subject.

--Robert L. Daniels/Variety

A singer's singer, a hipster's hipster, a seven time Grammy nominee for Best Male Vocal. Murphy has survived by keeping his integrity intact. --The New York Post

Even among jazz singers, the liberties Murphy takes are remarkable ... his leaps of artistic faith open yet another window into the human condition. --The Chicago Tribune

1996 Male Jazz Singer of the Year is one of the field's last true hipsters -- inheriting a mantle passed down by legends like Sammy Davis, Jr., who not-so-coincidentally was the man who first discovered his unique talent. Mark Murphy has spent four decades at the top, singing everything from the songs of Nat King Cole to the poetry of Jack Kerouac to the up-to-the-minute acid jazz of UFO. His newest album, “Song for the Geese", is the kind of evocative, ethereal vocalese that has earned him universal acclaim among the jazz cognoscenti." --Downbeat