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Jones Peter - This Is Hip The Life Of Mark Murphy - Hardcover
Jones Peter - This Is Hip The Life Of Mark Murphy - Hardcover
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Description: When Mark Murphy died in October 2015, the world lost one of the greatest jazz singers in history. Murphy was the last of his kind a hipster of the Kerouac generation who rejected the straight life of prosperity and numb consumerism. With a catalogue of more than 40 albums under his own name Mark Murphy was a consummate improviser who never sang a song the same way twice. He could have enjoyed a successful mainstream career in the vein of Mel Torm or Jack Jones. But his ambition was greater to be an artist to rebel against the commercial music industry and to carry the jazz vocal flame wherever it led him. Murphy was a master of scat and vocalese of songwriting and the spoken word. He expanded the jazz singing repertoire adding his own lyrics to instrumentals like John Coltrane's Naima Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay and Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments. Unrivalled as an interpreter of ballads he was able to express longing and regret to a degree lacking in any other jazz singer. For years he roamed the world playing thousands of gigs. Rediscovered in the Eighties by a new audience of jazz dancers and again in the 21st century by a digital generation who invited him to guest on their recordings he remains a crucial though unjustly neglected figure in vocal jazz. This Is Hip is more than a biography: it also explores Murphy's innovative approaches both to singing and to the teaching of singers. Based on numerous interviews with those who knew him best the book delves into a performing and recording career that spanned 60 years and earned him five Grammy nominations.
Title: This Is Hip The Life Of Mark Murphy
Author(s): Jones Peter
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Barcode: 9781781794739
Pages: 262 Pages, 27 Photos
Publication Date: 2/9/2018
Series: Popular Music History
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
Description: When Mark Murphy died in October 2015, the world lost one of the greatest jazz singers in history. Murphy was the last of his kind a hipster of the Kerouac generation who rejected the straight life of prosperity and numb consumerism. With a catalogue of more than 40 albums under his own name Mark Murphy was a consummate improviser who never sang a song the same way twice. He could have enjoyed a successful mainstream career in the vein of Mel Torm or Jack Jones. But his ambition was greater to be an artist to rebel against the commercial music industry and to carry the jazz vocal flame wherever it led him. Murphy was a master of scat and vocalese of songwriting and the spoken word. He expanded the jazz singing repertoire adding his own lyrics to instrumentals like John Coltrane's Naima Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay and Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments. Unrivalled as an interpreter of ballads he was able to express longing and regret to a degree lacking in any other jazz singer. For years he roamed the world playing thousands of gigs. Rediscovered in the Eighties by a new audience of jazz dancers and again in the 21st century by a digital generation who invited him to guest on their recordings he remains a crucial though unjustly neglected figure in vocal jazz. This Is Hip is more than a biography: it also explores Murphy's innovative approaches both to singing and to the teaching of singers. Based on numerous interviews with those who knew him best the book delves into a performing and recording career that spanned 60 years and earned him five Grammy nominations.
Title: This Is Hip The Life Of Mark Murphy
Author(s): Jones Peter
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Barcode: 9781781794739
Pages: 262 Pages, 27 Photos
Publication Date: 2/9/2018
Series: Popular Music History
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
