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Bop For Miles

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1 All Blues 6:44 2 Summertime 4:08 3 Autumn Leaves 3:35 4 Bye Bye Blackbird 6:03 5 On Green Dolphin Street 7:22 6 My Ship 3:10 7 Farmer's Market 7:30 8 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 5:01 9 Parker's Mood 5:48 10 Milestones 5:25 11 Miles 2:59

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North Sea Jazz Sessions Vol. 5

By Mark Murphy

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 2004

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Mark Murphy: Bop for Miles

Read "Bop for Miles" reviewed by Andrew Rowan

by Andrew Rowan
October 4, 2004

Simply put, Mark Murphy is one of the great jazz singers. His musical gifts remain prodigious, his depth of expression a model for all who practice this art, his recordings reside in the treasure trove of vocal jazz. On his current recording, Bop for Miles , Murphy is in top form, ebullient and able ...

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Memories of You

By Mark Murphy

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. The Comeback (Chatman) - 5:21 2. In the Evenin' (Carr/Raye) - 6:38 3. Everyday (Chatman) - 5:02 4. Memories of You (Blake/Razaf) - 5:59 5. Just Squeeze Me (Ellington/Gaines) - 4:29 6. If I Were a Bell (Loesser) - 3:06 7. Close Enough to Love (Mandel/Williams) - 4:34 8. Love You Madly (Ellington) - 3:23 9. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Ellington/Webster) - 5:20 10. Sposin' (Denniker/Razaf) - 3:05 11. A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry (Gimbel/Reid) - 6:25

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Mark Murphy: Memories of You

Read "Memories of You" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
November 16, 2003

It only takes a few moments for Mark Murphy to remind listeners why he's been one of the top vocalists in jazz for a generation. His new CD is Memories of You, a set of songs associated with the late, great Joe Williams. It's not so much Murphy's voice, which is fine, if a ...

Album

I'll Close My Eyes

By Mark Murphy

Label: Muse Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: I'll Close My Eyes; If; Happyin'; Miss You Mr. Mercer; Small World; There Is No Reason Why; Time on My Hands; Ugly Woman; Not Like This

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Bop for Kerouac

By Mark Murphy

Label: Muse Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Be Bop Lives (Boplicity); Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Parker's Mood; You Better Go Now; You've Proven Your Point; Bad and the Beautiful; Down St. Thomas Way; Ballad of the Sad Young Men

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What a Way to Go

By Mark Murphy

Label: Mujse Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: What a Way to Go; Ceora Lives; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Saxophone Joe; All My Tomorrows; Jamaica; I Never Noticed Until Now; Clown in My Window; Ding Walls

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Mark Murphy: What a Way to Go

by William Grim
August 1, 2002

What a Way to Go is another in a long line of masterful CDs by the master of vocal jazz, Mark Murphy. Ballads predominate, and the arrangements by Larry Fallon are lush and make good use of synthesizers to make up for the lack of a string orchestra. One of the best things about ...

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Mark Murphy: Bop for Kerouac

by William Grim
August 1, 2002

Bop for Kerouac is one of Mark Murphy’s best albums, and that’s saying a lot because over the years he has recorded some of the finest and most innovative jazz vocal albums of all time. It’s a concept album that is focused on the aesthetic of the Beats and features vocalise adaptations of Charlie Parker tunes ...