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Kurt Elling and Mark Murphy

A feast of great jazz singing: Geoffrey Smith introduces surreal, rhapsodic, madly swinging selections by today's premier vocal virtuoso, Kurt Elling, and his legendary mentor, the late Mark Murphy, who died in October.

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Sun 10 Jan 2016 00:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Mark Murphy

    Swinging On A Star

    • Playing The Field.
    • Fresh Sound Records.
    • 2.

  • Mark Murphy

    Angel Eyes

    • RAH.
    • RIVERSIDE.
    • 1.

  • Mark Murphy

    Milestones

    • RAH.
    • RIVERSIDE.
    • 7.

  • Mark Murphy & Mark Murphy And The BBC Big Band

    Senor Blues

    • That's How I love the Blues.
    • Riverside.
    • 2.

  • Mark Murphy & Mark Murphy

    Fly Me To The Moon

    • RAH.
    • RIVERSIDE.
    • 12.

  • Mark Murphy

    Stolen Moments

    • Giants of Jazz: Mark Murphy.
    • Savoy Jazz.
    • 1.

  • Mark Murphy

    Baltimore Oriole

    • Song for the Geese.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 3.

  • Mark Murphy

    Love Is Here To Stay

    • Once to Every Heart.
    • Verve.
    • 10.

  • Kurt Elling

    Wait Till You See Her

    • CLOSE YOUR EYES.
    • BLUE NOTE.
    • 9.

  • Kurt Elling

    Oh My God

    • Live In Chicago.
    • Blue Note.
    • 4.

  • Kurt Elling

    The Uncertainty of the Poet

    • Man in the Air.
    • Blue Note.
    • 5.

  • Kurt Elling

    Tight

    • NIGHTMOVES.
    • CONCORD RECORDS.
    • 2.

  • Kurt Elling & Laurence Hobgood

    Leaving Again / In The Wee Small Hours

    • Nightmoves.
    • Concord Jazz.
    • 9.

  • Kurt Elling, Ernie Watts, Laurence Hobgood & Ethel Waters

    All Or Nothing At All

    • DEDICATED TO YOU.
    • CONCORD JAZZ.
    • 1.

Performers:

Title:  Swinging on a Star  
  Performers: Mark Murphy 
  Composers: James Van Heusen & Johnny Burke 
  Album Title: Playing The Field  
  Label: Fresh Sound Records  Catalogue No: FSR-CD 823 
  Duration:  02:32

 Title:  Angel Eyes   
  Performers: Mark Murphy 
  Composers: Dennis/Brent 
  Album Title: Rah 
  Label: Riverside Catalogue No: RLP-395 
  Duration: 03:09 

  Title:  Milestones 
  Performers: Mark Murphy 
  Composers: Miles Davis 
  Album Title: Rah 
  Label: Riverside Catalogue No: RLP-395 
 Duration:  02:26

  Title:  Senor Blues  
  Performers: Mark Murphy and The BBC Big Band 
  Composers: Horace Silver 
  Album Title: That's How I love the Blues 
  Label: Riverside Catalogue No: RMP-441 
  Duration: 02:27 

  Title:  Fly Me To The Moon  
  Performers: Mark Murphy 
  Composers: Bart Howard 
  Album Title: Rah 
  Label: Riverside Catalogue No: RLP-395 
  Duration:  02:56

  Title:  Stolen Moments  
  Performers: Mark Murphy 
  Composers: Oliver Nelson 
  Album Title: Giants of Jazz: Mark Murphy 
  Label: Savoy Jazz Catalogue No: 17-364 
  Duration:  05:45

  Title:  Baltimore Oriole  
  Performers: Mark Murphy
  Composers: Webster/Carmichael   
  Album Title: Song for the Geese 
  Label: RCA Victor Catalogue No: 74321-448652 
  Duration:  03:59

  Title:   Love Is Here To Stay 
  Performers: Mark Murphy
  Composers: George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin  
  Album Title: Once to Every Heart 
  Label: Verve Catalogue No: 987-2410 
  Duration:  02:57

  Title:  Wait Till You See Her   
  Performers: Kurt Elling 
  Composers: Rogers & Hart 
  Album Title: Closer Your Eyes  
  Label: Blue Note Catalogue No: CDP7243-83064526 
  Duration:  03:54 

  Title:  Oh My God  
  Performers: Kurt Elling 
  Composers: Sting
  Album Title: Live In Chicago 
  Label: Blue Note Catalogue No: 724352221-12 
  Duration:  03:45 

  Title:   The Uncertainty of the Poet  
  Performers: Kurt Elling
  Composers: Franklin Cope
  Album Title: Man in the Air 
  Label: Blue Note Catalogue No: 590-9482 
  Duration:  01:07

  Title:  Tight  
  Performers: Kurt Elling
  Composers: Betty L. Carter 
  Album Title: Nightmoves 
  Label: Concord Records Catalogue No: 7230263 
  Duration: 02:51
  
 Title:  Leaving Again/In the Wee Small Hours  
  Performers: Kurt Elling 
  Composers: Keith Jarrett & Kurt Elling 
  Album Title: Nightmoves 
  Label: Concord Jazz Catalogue No: CD-8807230138 
  Duration 04:58

 Title:   All or Nothing At All 
  Performers: Kurt Elling 
  Composers: Altman/Lawrence 
  Album Title: Dedicated To You 
  Label: Concord Jazz Catalogue No: 08880-72313149 
  Duration: 06:50   

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    BBC Radio 3

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