Home » Search Center » Results: Mark Murphy
Results for "Mark Murphy"
Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled
by Mathew Bahl
The difficulty in writing about a genuinely original jazz musician is vocabulary. The old labels, those shorthand phrases jazz writers use to categorize everything, don't really apply.So what word do we use to describe Kitty Margolis? The San Francisco based vocalist does not sound quite like any other jazz singer past or present. One ...
The Latin Porter
By Mark Murphy
Label: Go Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: I Get a Kick Out of You, In the Still of the Night, Dream Dancing, Get Out of Town, Looking at You, I've Got You Under My Skin, All of You, Everything I Love, Experiment
Dim The Lights
By Mark Murphy
Label: Millennium Recordings
Released: 2000
Track listing: Your Red Wagon; Rules of the Road; Street of Dreams; Trilogy: Beautiful Love / Lullaby of the Leaves / Softly As In A Morning Sunrise; A Quiet Place; Dim the Lights; See You Later; Two Lonely People; It Amazes Me; North Sea Night; Time All Gone; I Never Know When to Say When / I
Mark Murphy: The Latin Porter
by Mathew Bahl
During the course of this live album, Mark Murphy observes that “everything old is becoming new again. Even me, folks." Certainly, the 68-year-old singer shows no signs of slowing down. He recently won the 2000 Downbeat Magazine Reader's Poll as Male Vocalist of the Year, and he finished second in the voting for the Hall of ...
Mark Murphy: Some Time Ago
by Derek Taylor
A preface to this review is order. I’m something of a curmudgeonly customer when it comes to jazz vocals. I can readily dig on classic (and admittedly popular) singers such as Holiday, Fitzgerald, Vaughn, Simone and so on. But when it comes to male vocalists, not only are the numbers comparatively smaller, but the pool of ...
Mark Murphy: Dim The Lights
by Jim Santella
“You live and you learn the rules of the road." So go Carolyn Leigh’s lyrics to Cy Coleman’s classic song. His experience gives Mark Murphy, 67, the insight to perform a romantic album his way with each song’s meaning clearly at the forefront. Make no mistake about it, this highly recommended album – a combination of ...
Sings Nat King Cole... And More
By Mark Murphy
Label: 32 Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Nature Boy/Calypso Blues; Love Letters/Serenata; Oh You Crazy Moon;
Mark Murphy: Sings Nat King Cole... And More
by Jim Santella
“Gee, it’s great, after bein’ out late, walkin’ my baby back home ... Hand in hand to a barbecue stand, right from her doorway we roam. Eats, and then it’s a pleasure again, walkin’ my baby back home." So goes the classic tune by Fred Ahlert and Roy Turk. When Mark Murphy sings such familiar territory, ...
