Customer Reviews

Night Mood

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This is a CD just for Murphy's fans, anyway. However, hurts me give only a 3-star quotation to the best, to the Master. This is just because singing in Portuguese should be restricted to 1 or 2 tracks as a "curious or exotic" track. Of course Murphy is glorious in English. Of course this is the same great jazz vocalist of this century end/beginning. Also Brazilian ensemble here is good though not brilliant. Note: This is to remind you I am a Portuguese Native speaker and a forever fan of Murphy music since his beginnings in the 50s.

Perhaps I'm the greatest Mark Murphy fan in Europe. But I can't believe my ears with this album.
Listen to Mark singing in portuguese. It's terrible. Please Mark listen to a native singer like Marcos Valle the next time you've an idea to record a brazilian album. Where's the happy feeling in this album by the way? Left at Copacabana?

I'm not a big fan of Mark Murphy, but I like this album for the Ivan Lins songs, most of them done in English. The title track and 'Velas' are the highlights for me. The backing by Azymuth, Claudio Roditi and an altoist whose name I forget is outstanding.

This cd arrived from Amazon, promptly , and in perfect condition
Mark Murphy is an American jazz singer ,who is possibly the finest" vocalese " singer ever.Now in the latter half of his seventies, he sings as well as ever.Night Mood is a collection of songs by the Brazilian writer, Ivan Lins, I'm not sure about his accent, but I especially love the title song, which was my whole reason for buying this album.I am certainly not disappointed with the rest of the album which was originally on an LP over twenty years ago