| That's How I Love the Blues! | ||||
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| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | October–December 1962 New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 38:24 | |||
| Label | Riverside RLP 441 | |||
| Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
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That's How I Love the Blues! is an album by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy featuring tracks recorded in late 1962 for the Riverside label. [1]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
| DownBeat | [5] |
| MusicHound Jazz | [6] |
Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars with the review by Scott Yanow stating, "Murphy is in top early form". [2]
DownBeat awarded the album 4.5 stars. [5] Don Nelsen, reviewing the album said, "What makes Murphy so impressive is his command of diction, dynamics, nuance, time, and phrasing...Cohn’s arrangements and the band he recruited to back Murphy are first rate". [5]
MusicHound Jazz awarded the album 5 bones. Reviewer Andrew Gilbert calls the album "one of the widest ranging explorations of the blues ever put to record". [6] He singles out the "hip hard bop" of "Senor Blues", the Kansas City blues of "Goin' to Chicago Blues", and show tunes "Blues in the Night" calling the charts by Al Cohn "as witty and deep as Murphy's singing, making this one of the era's essential vocal albums". [6]
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