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Mark Murphy - Bop for Kerouac (CD)

Bop for Kerouac
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Album Details: Bop for Kerouac

Release Date:03/12/1981
Label:Muse Records
UPC:016565525322

Track List: Bop for Kerouac

  1. Be-Bop Lives (Boplicity)
  2. Goodbye Porkpie Hat
  3. Parker's Mood
  4. You Better Go Now
  1. You've Proven Your Point (Bongo ...
  2. The Bad And The Beautiful
  3. Down St. Thomas Way
  4. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men

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  • All Music Guide

    This is an unusual recording. Singer Mark Murphy teams up with a fine sextet (featuring altoist Richie Cole and guitarist Bruce Forman) and alternating bop standards with readings from Jack Kerouac books. Since Kerouac was a big jazz fan in the 1950s and his interest in the music influenced the rhythms of his writing, this "poetry and jazz" set works surprisingly well. It also helps that Mark Murphy is heard at the peak of his powers.

    - Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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Biography

Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy often seemed to be the only true jazz singer of his generation. A young, hip postbop 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... Read more