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Book: This is Hip

Chapter: Age only Matters if you're a Cheese

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.34055

Blurb:

Although he never won a Grammy, Murphy was nominated five times, and in Downbeat magazine’s annual poll, he won Best Male Singer in both 1996 and 1997. At the same time Murphy-influenced younger singers – particularly Kurt Elling – were beginning to forge successful careers. Murphy himself relocated once again, this time to rural Pennsylvania.

Chapter Contributors

  • Peter Jones (loungeposse@btinternet.com - pjones4) 'Jazz singer and journalist'