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Love Is What Stays
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by Mark Murphy
Price:$18.98
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Fifty years after his recorded debut, that still-fearless singer Mark Murphy remains in the premiership, with an ambitious set produced in Berlin by trumpeter Till Bronner, who also plays on it. Murphy directs his repertoire of breakneck rhythmic experiments, faintly sinister remoulds of 50s-crooner techniques and bop-scat fireworks at a programme that spans Johnny Cash, Oliver Nelson and Coldplay. "Stolen Moments", an old favourite, makes three distinctive appearances, and there's a touching cameo role for the alto of a passing Lee Konitz on "My Foolish Heart". Johnny Cash's "So Doggone Lonesome" is slowed to the point where its generic roots almost vanish (an almost motionless, muted trumpet solo by Bronner sustains the effect), and the half-spoken "The Interview" is as revealingly paced as anything Murphy does, as is the Betty Carter-like swinging improvisation it turns into. A lot of the music is slow, but Murphy's intelligence and road-weariness stops it getting dinner-jazzy, and the orchestra does just enough to enrich the music without getting in its way.
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