MARK MURPHY

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The American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy, who has died aged 83, could sound like a pretty convincing conventional crooner when he wanted to, but he spent most of his colourful career distancing himself from popular music’s mainstream as a fearless innovator. “People say I’m a risk-taker, I’m on the edge,” he once said. “But I had to be there, because that was the only place that wasn’t overcrowded.”

Murphy’s vocals were often like fast-moving Charlie Parker saxophone solos, peppered with jittery yelps, falsetto sounds and dissonant feuds with the underlying chords. But as the critic Will Friedwald put it: “He doesn’t abstract and skewer a song merely for the sake of being different, but to get at its inner meaning. By making you think differently about a song you’ve heard before, he makes it relevant and meaningful all over again.”

As a consequence Murphy’s influence was immense among jazz vocalists, and his
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MARK MURPHY Meet Mark Murphy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Meet Mark Murphy
Vocal Jazz 1956
MARK MURPHY Let Yourself Go album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Let Yourself Go
Vocal Jazz 1958
MARK MURPHY This Could Be The Start Of Something album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
This Could Be The Start Of Something
Vocal Jazz 1959
MARK MURPHY Mark Murphy's Hip Parade album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mark Murphy's Hip Parade
Vocal Jazz 1960
MARK MURPHY Rah album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rah
Vocal Jazz 1961
MARK MURPHY That's How I Love the Blues! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
That's How I Love the Blues!
Vocal Jazz 1963
MARK MURPHY Swingin' Singin' Affair (aka Mark Time!) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Swingin' Singin' Affair (aka Mark Time!)
Vocal Jazz 1964
MARK MURPHY Who Can I Turn To? album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Who Can I Turn To?
Vocal Jazz 1966
MARK MURPHY Midnight Mood album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Midnight Mood
Vocal Jazz 1968
MARK MURPHY Bridging a Gap album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bridging a Gap
Vocal Jazz 1973
MARK MURPHY Mark II album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mark II
Vocal Jazz 1974
MARK MURPHY Sings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sings
Vocal Jazz 1975
MARK MURPHY Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman
Vocal Jazz 1977
MARK MURPHY Stolen Moments album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stolen Moments
Vocal Jazz 1978
MARK MURPHY Satisfaction Guaranteed album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Vocal Jazz 1980
MARK MURPHY Bop for Kerouac album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bop for Kerouac
Vocal Jazz 1981
MARK MURPHY The Artistry of Mark Murphy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Artistry of Mark Murphy
Vocal Jazz 1982
MARK MURPHY Brazil Song (Cancoes Do Brazil) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Brazil Song (Cancoes Do Brazil)
Vocal Jazz 1984
MARK MURPHY Sings the Nat King Cole Songbook album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sings the Nat King Cole Songbook
Vocal Jazz 1985
MARK MURPHY Sings Nat King Cole Songbook Vol. 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sings Nat King Cole Songbook Vol. 2
Vocal Jazz 1985
MARK MURPHY Living Room album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Living Room
Vocal Jazz 1986
MARK MURPHY Night Mood album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Night Mood
Vocal Jazz 1986
MARK MURPHY Beauty and the Beast album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beauty and the Beast
Vocal Jazz 1987
MARK MURPHY September Ballads album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
September Ballads
Vocal Jazz 1988
MARK MURPHY Kerouac, Then And Now album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kerouac, Then And Now
Vocal Jazz 1989
MARK MURPHY I'll Close My Eyes album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
I'll Close My Eyes
Vocal Jazz 1991
MARK MURPHY North Sea Jazz Sessions, Vol.5 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
North Sea Jazz Sessions, Vol.5
Vocal Jazz 1992
MARK MURPHY Song for the Geese album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Song for the Geese
Vocal Jazz 1997
MARK MURPHY Some Time Ago album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Some Time Ago
Vocal Jazz 1999
MARK MURPHY What a Way to Go album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
What a Way to Go
Vocal Jazz 2000
MARK MURPHY The Latin Porter album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Latin Porter
Vocal Jazz 2000
MARK MURPHY Links album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Links
Vocal Jazz 2001
MARK MURPHY Lucky to Be Me album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky to Be Me
Vocal Jazz 2002
MARK MURPHY Memories of You: Remembering Joe Williams album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Memories of You: Remembering Joe Williams
Vocal Jazz 2003
MARK MURPHY Dim the Lights album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dim the Lights
Vocal Jazz 2004
MARK MURPHY Once to Every Heart album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Once to Every Heart
Vocal Jazz 2005
MARK MURPHY Love Is What Stays album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Love Is What Stays
Vocal Jazz 2007
MARK MURPHY Never Let Me Go album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Never Let Me Go
Vocal Jazz 2010
MARK MURPHY Shadows (feat. Karlheinz Miklin, Fritz Pauer, Ewald Oberleitner & Dusan Novakov) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Shadows (feat. Karlheinz Miklin, Fritz Pauer, Ewald Oberleitner & Dusan Novakov)
Vocal Jazz 2014
MARK MURPHY A Beautiful Friendship: Remembering Shirley Horn album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Beautiful Friendship: Remembering Shirley Horn
Vocal Jazz 2017

MARK MURPHY EPs & splits

MARK MURPHY Beautiful Friendship: Remembering Shirley Horn album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beautiful Friendship: Remembering Shirley Horn
Vocal Jazz 2016
MARK MURPHY Sconsolato / Just Give Me Time album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sconsolato / Just Give Me Time
Vocal Jazz 2021

MARK MURPHY live albums

MARK MURPHY Bop for Miles album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bop for Miles
Vocal Jazz 2004
MARK MURPHY Live in Athens, Greece, featuring Spiros Exaras album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live in Athens, Greece, featuring Spiros Exaras
Vocal Jazz 2016
MARK MURPHY Wild And Free album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Wild And Free
Vocal Jazz 2017

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MARK MURPHY re-issues & compilations

MARK MURPHY The Complete Nat King Cole Songbook, Vol.1-2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Complete Nat King Cole Songbook, Vol.1-2
Vocal Jazz 1983
MARK MURPHY The Dream album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Dream
Vocal Jazz 1995
MARK MURPHY The Best of Mark Murphy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Best of Mark Murphy
Vocal Jazz 1997
MARK MURPHY Jazz Standards album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Standards
Vocal Jazz 1998
MARK MURPHY Stolen...And Other Moments album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stolen...And Other Moments
Vocal Jazz 1999
MARK MURPHY Mark Murphy Sings Nat King Cole and More album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mark Murphy Sings Nat King Cole and More
Vocal Jazz 1999
MARK MURPHY Crazy Rhythm: His Debut Recordings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Crazy Rhythm: His Debut Recordings
Vocal Jazz 1999
MARK MURPHY Mark Murphy Songbook album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mark Murphy Songbook
Vocal Jazz 1999
MARK MURPHY Timeless album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Timeless
Vocal Jazz 2003
MARK MURPHY Giants of Jazz: Mark Murphy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Giants of Jazz: Mark Murphy
Vocal Jazz 2004
MARK MURPHY Rah/Hip Parade album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rah/Hip Parade
Vocal Jazz 2012

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