Mark Murphy
USA
Born: 14 March 1932
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Vocal Jazz, Vocal/Standards, Standards, Traditional Pop
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Mark Murphy often seemed to be the only true jazz singer of his generation. A young, hip post-bop vocalist, Murphy spent most of his career sticking to the standards -- and often presented radically reworked versions of those standards while many submitted to the lure of the lounge singer -- during the artistically fallow period of the 1970s and '80s. Marketed as a teen idol by Capitol during the mid-'50s, Murphy deserted the stolid world of commercial pop for a series of exciting dates on independent labels that featured the singer investigati...
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