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Full Moon Mood CD

H D. MEIJ | Jipsinghuizen, Holland | 10/27/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Perhaps Mark's second best album (after RAH!), with a fantastic band, including my friend Jimmy Woode jr.

I met Jimmy several times in Holland. Jimmy wrote some songs from this album and is a very good bass player out off the Duke Ellington stable. My favourite tune is Sconsolato.

But this band swings like hell!"

Mark Murphy/MIDNIGHT MOOD

T. gibbs Murray | Philadelphia PA | 03/09/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As a 'bigtime' fan of Mark Murphy since I first heard him sing on the late

50s Steve Allen Sunday show and collecting all of his albums from LPs to

CDs, and trying to catch him in live performance on those somewhat rare

occasions he appears on the East Coast, it was a treat to discover this

release of material recorded in 1967. It is, as w/all Mark Murphy

recordings, a joy. He is, for my money, our best male jazz singer.

Having last seen him just one year ago (Iridium, NYC), Mark is still

singin' and swingin' as strong and on target as he does on this 1967 CD,

and for that matter, from 1956-7 consistently for 5 decades. If you can

dig him, you won't go wrong w/this or any other of Mark Murphy's large

and profound oeuvre of classic and innovative jazz vocals. Listen up!"