Mark Murphy may be the most flat-out adventuresome singer working in the pop song/jazz tune forms. Down Beat Magazine readers know it - they recently voted Mark the Top Male Jazz Vocalist over a host of high-profile names and 'talents'. Nominated for six Grammies over the course of his career Mark Murphy is back for his third HighNote Recording in as many years. Backed by a septet of New York's top studio men, led by Tony Bennett's music director, Lee Musiker, Murphy bends notes into wild shapes, leaps mountain goat-like from baritone to falsetto to yodel, and nimbly deploys slides and pitch fluctuations and gradations like the master that he is. He has been called a be-bopper, a hipster and a member of the avant garde. Label him as you wish, but there is nothing quite like Mark Murphy.

W/Lee Musiker- piano, Scott Wendholt- trumpet/flugelhorn, Bobby Porcelli- flute/alto saxophone, Jay Leonhart- bass, David Finck- bass, Tim Horner- drums & Memo Acevedo- percussion.

Tracks: Medley from "On the Town"; Dearly Beloved; Then I'll Be Tired of You; Photograph; Serenade in Blue; Just as Though You Were Here; I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart Again; Blues for Frances Faye; I Wonder What Became of Me/If Love Were All

Dearly Beloved

 Then I'll Be Tired Of You

 Photograph