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This is Hip
When Mark Murphy died in October 2015, some obituaries mourned the passing of the greatest jazz singer in history. Murphy was also the last of his kind, a hipster of the Kerouac generation, who fought against the straight life of prosperity and numb consumerism. With a catalogue of more than 40 a...
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This is Bop
If any man could be defined as the epitome of the modern jazz singer, it would surely be Jon Hendricks. His contributions to jazz as a whole were colossal: a hipster, a bopster, a comic and raconteur, a wordsmith par excellence, and a fearless improviser who took the arts of scatting and vocales...