WILD & FREE

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Label
HIGHNOTE
Release Date
April 14, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      MURPHY, MARK
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 14, 2017
    • UPC
      632375731021
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      HNR757310.2
    • LABEL
      HIGHNOTE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. I Return to Music

      Composer: Kirby Shaw

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    2. Farmer's Market

      Composer: Art Farmer

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    3. State Fair: It Might as Well Be Spring - Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

      Composer: Richard Rodgers, Tommy Wolf

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    4. Stompin' At the Savoy

      Composer: Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    5. Demi-Dozen: You Fascinate Me So

      Composer: Cy Coleman

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    6. Bijou

      Composer: Ralph Burns

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    7. Fiesta in Blue

      Composer: Jimmy Mundy, Benny Goodman

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    8. Body and Soul

      Composer: Johnny Green

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    9. Aguas de Março (Waters of March)

      Composer: Antônio Carlos Jobim

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    10. Laugh, Clown, Laugh - A Little Night Music, Act II: Send in the Clowns

      Composer: Ted Fiorito, Sam Lewis

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    11. Charleston Alley

      Composer: Leroy Kirkland, Horace Henderson

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    12. Blues in the Night

      Composer: Harold Arlen

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    13. Born to Dance: I've got you under my skin

      Composer: Cole Porter

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    14. Don't Be Blue

      Composer: John Guerin, Michael Franks

      Performer: Mark Murphy, Peter Barshay, Paul Potyen, Jack Gobetti, Babatunde Lea

    15. Introducing the Band

      Composer: na Not Applicable


When Mark Murphy died in October 2015, the obituaries claimed that he had been almost the last of his kind. Murphy, it was said, was a man who embodied the spirit of postwar bohemia, the 'On The Road' Kerouac generation who fought against the straight life of prosperity and numb consumerism they saw all around them. With a catalogue of more than 40 albums under his own name as well as numerous collaborations, Mark Murphy resisted orthodoxy. He could very likely have enjoyed a successful mainstream career had he remained a crooner in the vein of Mel Torm� or Jack Jones, but he had greater ambition to carry the jazz vocal flame. He was a consummate improviser, who never sang a song the same way twice. It is that Mark Murphy we encounter here in a historic engagement at the Keystone Korner which was his only performance in the club. Familiar Murphy favorites are here along with a few surprises with Mark's voice alternately thundering and whispering through the inspired setlist.