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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
Mark Murphy: Bop for Kerouac
by William Grim
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 ...
Mark Murphy: What a Way to Go
by William Grim
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 ...
Mark Murphy: I'll Close My Eyes
by William Grim
Every album by Mark Murphy is a gem and I'll Close My Eyes is no exception. Starting with the title track, Murphy displays his uncanny sensitivity to the relationship between words and music by delivering a very emotional reading of the song's verse, a text that is overlooked by most performers. Added to the performance's appeal ...
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
