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xxxxxxx is a studio album by Mark Murphy.

xxxxx is the xxrd album by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy. It was recorded in xxxx when Murphy was xx years old and released by the Millennium label in the United States in xxxx. This album is a collection of

Background

Mark Murphy \.^[1] \

\

Recording

Murphy .^[1].

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]

Colin Larkin assigns 3 stars in The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music.^[2] Three stars means, "3* Good. By the artist's usual standards and therefore recommended".^[2]

Scott Yanow includes xxxxxx in his list of Murphy's "other worthy recordings of the past 20 years" in his book The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide.^[3]

Murphy biographer Peter Jones t.^[1]

In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald said, "".^[4]

Track listing

" ( –

Personnel

Performance

Mark Murphy – vocals
– piano


Production

– engineer, recorded in
– mastering engineer
– executive producer
– photography
– design
– liner notes

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Jones, Peter (2018). This is hip: the life of Mark Murphy. Popular music history. Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing. pp. 124, 137, 139. ISBN 978-1-78179-473-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c Larkin, Colin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Colin Larkin, Muze UK Ltd (eds.) (Concise 4th ed.). London: Virgin. pp. 899–900. ISBN 978-1-85227-923-3.
^ Yanow, Scott (2008). The jazz singers: the ultimate guide. New York: Backbeat Books. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-87930-825-4. OCLC 148769861.
^ Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers (Kindle ed.). New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-375-42149-5.

External links

at MusicBrainz (release group)
at Discogs (master release)
at AllMusic (release)
Mark Murphy in The Penguin Guide to Jazz at Internet Archive
Mark Murphy in The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide at Internet Archive

[:0-1] Jones, Peter (2018). This is hip: the life of Mark Murphy. Popular music history. Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing. pp. 124, 137, 139. ISBN 978-1-78179-473-9.

[:2-2] Larkin, Colin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Colin Larkin, Muze UK Ltd (eds.) (Concise 4th ed.). London: Virgin. pp. 899–900. ISBN 978-1-85227-923-3.

[3] Yanow, Scott (2008). The jazz singers: the ultimate guide. New York: Backbeat Books. pp. 161–162. ISBN 978-0-87930-825-4. OCLC 148769861.

[4] Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers (Kindle ed.). New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-375-42149-5.

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 {{Short description|1996 studio album by Mark Murphy}}
 {{Infobox album
-| name         = Dim the Lights
+| name         = xxxxxxxxxxx
 | type         = studio
 | artist       = [[Mark Murphy (singer)|Mark Murphy]]
 | cover        =
 | alt          =
-| released     = 2004
+| released     = xxx
-| recorded     = 1996
+| recorded     = xxxx
 | venue        =
-| studio       = Calgary, Canada
+| studio       = xxxxxxxxx
 | genre        = [[Vocal jazz]]
-| length       = 1:08:28
+| length       = xxxxxx
-| label        = Millennium Recordings Ltd.
+| label        = xxxxxxx
-| producer     = Kirk N. Loeffler
+| producer     = xxxxx
-| next_title   = [[Once to Every Heart]]
+| next_title   =
-| next_year    = 2005
+| next_year    =
 | chronology   =
-| prev_title   = [[Bop for Miles]]
+| prev_title   =
-| prev_year    = 2004
+| prev_year    =
 }}
-'''''Dim the Lights''''' is a studio album by [[Mark Murphy (singer)|Mark Murphy]].
+'''''xxxxxxx''''' is a studio album by [[Mark Murphy (singer)|Mark Murphy]].
-''Dim the Lights'' is the 43rd album by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy. It was recorded in 1996 when Murphy was 64 years old and released by the Millennium label in Canada in 2004. This album is a collection of standards performed in duets with pianist [[Benny Green (pianist)|Benny Green]].
+''xxxxx'' is the xxrd album by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy. It was recorded in xxxx when Murphy was xx years old and released by the Millennium label in the United States in xxxx. This album is a collection of
 == Background ==
+Mark Murphy \.<ref name=":0" /> \
-Mark Murphy considered himself a rhythm singer.<ref name=":0" /> He explained why he chose [[Benny Green (pianist)|Benny Green]] for this recording: "Benny Green has been playing with [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]], and he's one of the new hot musicians coming out of the newer trends in jazz where they are listening to the later 50s music of rhythmic players like [[Ramsey Lewis]] and [[Ahmad Jamal]]. And to us it's old but to them it's brand new".<ref name=":0" /> Green was a protégé of [[Oscar Peterson]] and had worked with [[Art Blakey]] and [[Betty Carter]].<ref name=":0" />
+\
-''Dim the Lights'' was recorded in Calgary in 1996 but not released for over three years in a limited edition (September 1999).<ref name=":0" /> The year of the recording Mark Murphy won the Downbeat readers' poll for Best Male Singer.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Ouellette |first=Dan |date=April 1997 |title=Mark Murphy The Start of Something |journal=[[DownBeat]] |pages=27}}</ref> Murphy won again in both 2000 and 2001.<ref name=":0" /> The album was released again in 2004, eight years after the original recording.<ref>{{Citation |title=Dim the Lights - Mark Murphy {{!}} Album {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/dim-the-lights-mw0000659409 |access-date=2024-06-10 |language=en}}</ref>
 == Recording ==
+Murphy .<ref name=":0" />.
-Murphy experiments with overdubbing on track 4. The three tunes of the medley are overlayed so that you hear the vocal tracks of all three songs at once, including three different scat choruses.<ref name=":0" />
-Murphy contributes original lyrics to two tunes, "Dim the Lights" and "Time all Gone".
 == Reception ==
@@ Line 43: / Line 41: @@
 Colin Larkin assigns 3 stars in ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]].''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2002 |publisher=Virgin |others=Colin Larkin, Muze UK Ltd (eds.) |isbn=978-1-85227-923-3 |edition=Concise 4th |location=London |pages=899-900}}</ref> Three stars means, "3* Good. By the artist's usual standards and therefore recommended".<ref name=":2" />
-Scott Yanow includes ''Dim the Lights'' in his list of Murphy's "other worthy recordings of the past 20 years" in his book ''The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yanow |first=Scott |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/148769861 |title=The jazz singers: the ultimate guide |date=2008 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-0-87930-825-4 |location=New York |pages=161-162 |oclc=148769861}}</ref>
+Scott Yanow includes ''xxxxxx'' in his list of Murphy's "other worthy recordings of the past 20 years" in his book ''The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yanow |first=Scott |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/148769861 |title=The jazz singers: the ultimate guide |date=2008 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-0-87930-825-4 |location=New York |pages=161-162 |oclc=148769861}}</ref>
-Murphy biographer Peter Jones thought the results of the overdubbing of the three songs of the medley in track 4 to be a muddle.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Peter |title=This is hip: the life of Mark Murphy |date=2018 |publisher=Equinox Publishing |isbn=978-1-78179-473-9 |series=Popular music history |location=Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT |pages=124, 137, 139}}</ref>
+Murphy biographer Peter Jones t.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Peter |title=This is hip: the life of Mark Murphy |date=2018 |publisher=Equinox Publishing |isbn=978-1-78179-473-9 |series=Popular music history |location=Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT |pages=124, 137, 139}}</ref>
-In a DownBeat article from 1997, Dan Ouellette called ''Dim the Lights'' "a superb duo recording".<ref name=":1" />
-Writer Jim Santella called ''Dim the Lights'' a "highly recommended album" in a review in 2000.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Santella |first=Jim |date=January 1, 2000 |title=Mark Murphy. Dim the Lights. |journal=AllAboutJazz}}</ref>
-In ''A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers,'' Will Friedwald said, "''Dim the Lights'' teams him with Carter veteran Benny Green, and with his usual plethora of ideas, some brilliant and some bizarre".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Friedwald |first=Will |title=A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers |date=2010 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-375-42149-5 |edition=Kindle |location=New York |pages=352}}</ref>
+In ''A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers,'' Will Friedwald said, "".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Friedwald |first=Will |title=A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers |date=2010 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-375-42149-5 |edition=Kindle |location=New York |pages=352}}</ref>
 == Track listing ==
-# <bdi>"Your Red Wagon" ([[Gene de Paul]], [[Don Raye]], [[Richard M. Jones]])</bdi> – 4:44
+# <bdi>" (</bdi> –
+#
-#<bdi>"Rules of the Road" ([[Carolyn Leigh]], [[Cy Coleman]]) – 4:39</bdi>
-#<bdi>"[[Street of Dreams (1932 song)|Street of Dreams]]" ([[Sam M. Lewis]], [[Victor Young]]) – 7:53</bdi>
-#<bdi>Trilogy – "[[Beautiful Love (1931 song)|Beautiful Love]]" / "[[Lullaby of the Leaves]]" / "[[Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise|Soft as in a Morning Sunrise]]" ([[Haven Gillespie]], [[Egbert Van Alstyne]], [[Wayne King]], [[Victor Young]] / [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]], [[Bernice Petkere]] / [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], [[Sigmund Romberg]]) – 3:27</bdi>
-#<bdi>"A Quiet Place" ([[Ralph Carmichael]]) – 3:49</bdi>
-#<bdi>"Dim the Lights" (Mark Murphy, Reinhold Util) – 4:27</bdi>
-#<bdi>"See You Later" (Flip Nuñez) – 5:10</bdi>
-#<bdi>"[[The Two Lonely People|Two Lonely People]]" ([[Carol Hall]], [[Bill Evans]]) – 6:53</bdi>
-#<bdi>"It Amazes Me" (Leigh, Coleman) – 5:48</bdi>
-#<bdi>"North Sea Night" (Suzie Scragg, [[Hein van de Geyn]]) – 3:14</bdi>
-#<bdi>"Time All Gone" (Murphy, Fernando Corrêa) – 5:02</bdi>
-#<bdi>"I Never Know When to Say When" / "I'm in Love Again" (Joan Ford, Jean Kerr, Walter Kerr, [[Leroy Anderson]] / [[Peggy Lee]], Coleman, Bill Schluger) – 6:20</bdi>
-#<bdi>"Ravel Concerto" / "[[How Insensitive]]" / "[[Corcovado (song)|Corcovado]]" ([[Maurice Ravel]] / [[Vinicius de Moraes]], [[Norman Gimbel]], [[Antônio Carlos Jobim]] / [[Gene Lees]], Jobim) – 6:16</bdi>
-#<bdi>"The Man on the Other Side of the Street" (Kristen Michelle) – 0:46</bdi>
 == Personnel ==
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 * [[Mark Murphy (singer)|Mark Murphy]] – vocals
-* <bdi>[[Benny Green (pianist)|Benny Green]] – piano</bdi>
+* <bdi>– piano</bdi>
 ;
 ; Production
-* Brad Steckel – [[Audio engineering|engineer]], <bdi>recorded in Calgary 1996</bdi>
+* – [[Audio engineering|engineer]], <bdi>recorded in</bdi>
-* Bud Bremmer – mastering engineer
+* – mastering engineer
-* Kirk N. Loeffler – executive producer
+* – executive producer
-* <bdi>Jeff Bright –</bdi> photography
+* <bdi>–</bdi> photography
-* <bdi>Ron Brouwer –</bdi> design
+* <bdi>–</bdi> design
-* <bdi>[[Will Friedwald]] – liner notes</bdi>
+* <bdi>– liner notes</bdi>
 == References ==
@@ Line 92: / Line 75: @@
 == External links ==
-*  ''[https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/3b10bdb0-0cb3-41ef-b5f8-d021763cabdc Dim the Lights]'' at [[MusicBrainz]] (release group)
+*  at [[MusicBrainz]] (release group)
-*  ''[https://www.discogs.com/release/30525424-Mark-Murphy-Featuring-Benny-Green-Dim-The-Lights Dim the Lights]'' at [[Discogs]] (master release)
+*  at [[Discogs]] (master release)
-*  ''[https://www.allmusic.com/album/dim-the-lights-mw0000659409 Dim the Lights]'' at [[AllMusic]] (release)
+*  at [[AllMusic]] (release)
 *   Mark Murphy in ''[https://archive.org/search?query=external-identifier%3A%22urn%3Aoclc%3Arecord%3A1280806807%22 The Penguin Guide to Jazz]'' at Internet Archive
 *   Mark Murphy in ''[https://archive.org/search?query=external-identifier%3A%22urn%3Aoclc%3Arecord%3A1036937988%22 The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide]'' at Internet Archive

v t e Mark Murphy
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	This Could Be the Start of Something (1958) Mark Murphy's Hip Parade (1959) Playing the Field (1960) Rah (1961) That's How I Love the Blues! (1962) Midnight Mood (1967) The Dream (1969-1993) Bridging a Gap (1972) Mark II (1973) Mark Murphy Sings (1975) Mark Murphy Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields & Cy Coleman (1977) Stolen Moments (1978) Satisfaction Guaranteed (1979) Bop for Kerouac (1981) The Artistry of Mark Murphy (1982) Brazil Song (Cancões Do Brasil) (1983) Mark Murphy Sings the Nat "King" Cole Songbook, Volume One (1983) Living Room (1984) Beauty and the Beast (1985) Night Mood: The Music of Ivan Lins (1986) September Ballads (1987) Kerouac, Then and Now (1989) What a Way to Go (1990) One for Junior (1991) I'll Close My Eyes (1991) Very Early (1993) Song for the Geese (1995) Dim the Lights (1996) Some Time Ago (1999) Links (2000) Lucky to Be Me (2001) Once to Every Heart (2002) Memories of You: Remembering Joe Williams (2003) Love Is What Stays (2007) Never Let Me Go (2010) A Beautiful Friendship: Remembering Shirley Horn (2012)
Live albums	Wild and Free: Live at the Keystone Korner (1980) Bop for Miles (1990) Just Jazz (1993) The Latin Porter (2000)
Compilation albums	Stolen...And Other Moments (1997) The Best of Mark Murphy: The Capitol Years (1997) Jazz Standards (1998) Songbook (1999) Mark Murphy Sings Nat King Cole & More (1999) Crazy Rhythm: His Debut Recordings (1999)