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Jazz Standards
Compilation album by
Mark Murphy
Released1998
Recorded1972-1991
GenreVocal jazz
Length2:01:11
Label32 Jazz
ProducerMichael Bourne
Mark Murphy chronology
Stolen...And Other Moments
(1997) 		Jazz Standards
(1998) 		Some Time Ago
(1999)

Jazz Standards is a compilation album of American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy's Muse Records recordings. It was released by the the 32 Jazz label in the United States in 1998. This album is a collection of jazz songs from his Muse years 1972-1991.

Background[edit]

Muse Records was founded by Joe Fields in 1972. Fields sold the label in 1996 to Joel Dorn who released four compilation albums from Mark Murphy's Muse catalogue on the 32 Jazz label, Stolen...And Other Moments, Jazz Standards, Songbook, and Mark Murphy Sings Nat King Cole & More.[1] Writer and broadcaster Michael Bourne was enlisted to put together the four collections.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Reception[edit]

Michael G. Nastos assigns 4 stars to the album at AllMusic.[2] He said, "It's a good overview of his middle career, he's in fine voice, and the backup players are first-rate. There's only one of his originals, but many of his inventive lyrics to standards are here, along with other modern jazz pieces..there's plenty in this two-CD, 26-track collection to show how Murphy had matured, and how fertile his mind was. Recommended, if you can find it".[2] He singles out the jazz compositions "Effendi", "Ceora", "Bijou", "Doxy", and "Ask Me Now".[2]

Scott Yanow says Jazz Standards is "excellent" in his book The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide.[3]

Assessing Murphy's recorded legacy from Muse Records in his book A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald points out the four Muse anthologies issued by Joel Dorn show "the astonishing range and scope, not to mention sheer size, of the singer's seventies and eighties output".[4] Friedwald goes on to say the releases reveal, "his output has been so consistently excellent—that so many of these records deserve to be regarded, in retrospect, as classics of the jazz vocal genre—and that even his occasional missteps are instructive".[4] He points out that Murphy also covers numerous songs that originated with jazz composers, vocalese songs, bossa nova, and even contributes his own lyrics and original compositions.[4]

Track listing[edit]

Disc one
No.TitleLyricsMusicAlbumLength
1."Come and Get Me"Mark MurphyMurphyBridging a Gap3:37
2."Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You"Andy RazafDon RedmanBridging a Gap3:01
3."Maiden Voyage"Jean HancockHerbie HancockMark Murphy Sings5:26
4."Sly"HancockHancock Stolen Moments4:12
5."Effendi"MurphyWayne ShorterBeauty and the Beast4:41
6."Naima"Jon HendricksJohn ColtraneMark Murphy Sings4:49
7."Waltz for Debby"Gene LeesBill EvansSatisfaction Guaranteed3:38
8."Triology for Kids: Babe's Blues / Little Niles / Dat Dere"Hendricks / Weston / Oscar Brown Jr.Randy Weston / Weston / Bobby TimmonsThe Artistry of Mark Murphy4:59
9."Ceora Lives"MurphyLee MorganWhat a Way to Go4:07
10."Saxophone Joe"H. SmithH. SmithWhat a Way to Go3:31
11."Doxy"Sony RollinsRollinsBeauty and the Beast6:44
12."If You Could See Me Now"Carl SigmanTadd DameronKerouac, Then and Now6:45
13."Lush Life"Billy StrayhornStayhornMark Murphy Sings the Nat "King" Cole Songbook, Volume One4:22
Disc two
No.TitleLyricsMusicAlbumLength
1."The Lady Who Sang the Blues"Edwin DuffDuffBeauty and the Beast5:29
2."Memphis Blues"George A. NortonW. C. HandyBeauty and the Beast6:10
3."Charleston Alley"Leroy Kirkland, Robert BruceKirkland, Bruce 2:39
4."Farmer’s Market"Annie RossArt FarmerStolen Moments2:51
5."Bijou"Jon HendricksRalph BurnsSatisfaction Guaranteed3:30
6."Misty / Midnight Sun"Johnny Burke / Johnny MercerErroll Garner / Mercer, Sonny BurkeLiving Room5:56
7."Living Room"Abbey Lincoln, Max RoachLincoln, RoachLiving Room5:30
8."Along Came Betty" Benny GolsonBeauty and the Beast4:45
9."I Remember Clifford"HendricksGolsonThe Artistry of Mark Murphy3:37
10."Goodbye Porkpie Hat"Joni MitchellCharles MingusBop for Kerouac4:48
11."Ask Me Now"Ben SidranThelonious MonkKerouac, Then and Now3:37
12."The Bird: Tribute (Quasimodo) / Embraceable You"Sheila Jordan / Ira GershwinCharlie Parker / George GershwinOne for Junior7:05
13."Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens"Alex Kramer, Joan WhitneyKramer, WhitneyLiving Room5:22
Total length:2:01:11

Personnel[edit]

Production

  • Michael Bourne – compilation producer, liner notes
  • Gene Paul – mastering
  • Page Simon – graphic design
  • Nancy Dwyer – graphic design, illustrations
  • Amy DiDonato – production coordinator
  • Joel Dorn – series producer
  • William Claxton – photography

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jones, Peter (2018). This is Hip: The Life of Mark Murphy. Popular music history. Sheffield, UK; Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-78179-473-9.
  2. ^ a b c d Nastos, Michael G. Jazz Standards - Mark Murphy | Album | AllMusic, retrieved 2024-05-21
  3. ^ Yanow, Scott (2008). The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide. New York: Backbeat Books. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-87930-825-4.
  4. ^ a b c Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers (Kindle ed.). New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 350–351. ISBN 978-0-375-42149-5.

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