Mark Murphy - Love Is What Stays
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Artist: Mark MurphyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Verve
Soundtracks:
- Stolen Moments
- Angel Eyes
- My Foolish Heart
- So Doggone Lonesome
- What If
- The Interview
- Once Upon A Summertime
- Stolen Moments
- Love Is What Stays
- Stolen Moments
- Too Late Now
- Blue Cell Phone
- Did I Ever Really Live
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Free Music Review: Mark Soars with Romantic Ballads
Hit: 5 Stars
Mark's CD "Love is What Stays" is a collaboration with Til Bronner, as was his last CD "Once to Every Heart", a collaboration made in heaven. Thest two CDs have brought Mark back to the renditions of the romantic ballads of which Mark has no peer. The one song from Johnny Cash's material seems misplaced. Apart from that, if this were a star rating system, give this CD all the stars in the sky!
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This is Mark Murphy's sophomore effort for Verve. The 13 tracks on Love Is What Stays reflect a wide range of composers, collaborators, and inspirations. On this album, he dips into the songs of Johnny Cash, Oliver Nelson, Alan Jay Lerner, and even Coldplay; recites some of his spacey, free-form poetry; unveils the latest of his dreamlike lyrics; and scats as freely as John Coltrane played.
Mark Murphy is perhaps the leading jazz singer of his generation. He made his mark on the genre with his ability to work effortlessly in a wide range of styles and especially from his incomparable scatting technique. Ella Fitzgerald said, "He is my equal." Murphy started out as a teen idol in the 1950s, and worked with labels including Capitol, Decca, and Muse throughout his five-decades-plus career. Now releasing his second album on the venerable Verve label, Murphy proves he is also here to stay.
The passage of time is on Mark Murphy's mind a lot these days, as this album suggests. "At my age," he says, "you become boggled by how time affects your future, your past, and the present. It's tickin' away, and you can't do nothin' about it." But time has been good to his voice: a rich, virile, attractively craggy bass-baritone, etched with the wisdom of a fifty-year journey. It's a sound that could have crept from the shadows of some smoky dive in a Robert Mitchum film noir. "Just listen to Mark Murphy, and the odds are in favor of your being provoked to extremes," declared the liner notes of his first LP, made for Decca in 1956. Murphy, the writer added, "is one of the great singers of our times." All that could just as well be said today. The evidence is on this new album, recorded fifty years after Mark's Decca debut. Love Is What Stays may be the truest portrait ever of this quirky, artistically fearless, emotionally naked jazz singer. At an age when most vocalists have either called it quits or are coasting on the past, Mark is as restless as he was in the '50s, when his career launched him on a Kerouacian road trip without end. In 2006 he went to Berlin, where he made this CD. On it, Mark dips into the songs of Johnny Cash, Oliver Nelson, Alan Jay Lerner, and Coldplay; recites some of his spacey, free-form poetry; unveils the latest of his dreamlike lyrics; and scats as freely as John Coltrane played.
2007 Release from the Veteran Jazz Vocalist, his Second for the Verve Label.
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