{"product_id":"live_at_club_43_1966_manchester_uk","title":"Live at Club 43, 1966 Manchester, UK","description":"\u003cp\u003eLive at Club 43, 1966 Manchester, UK is a 2026 archival double‑LP that documents jazz vocalist Mark Murphy onstage at Manchester’s legendary Club 43 in April 1966, during his formative British period years before his breakthrough Muse recordings. Sourced from the club’s own tapes and released in a strictly limited Record Store Day pressing of 500 heavyweight vinyl copies by Jazz Rewind, the album captures Murphy backed by pianist Joe Palin, bassist Alan Cooper, and a young Tony Oxley on drums in a working‑club setting with minimal production intervention, preserving the sound and feel of the room. The program reaches back to Broadway and Tin Pan Alley bedrock—Sometimes I’m Happy, Body and Soul, Falling in Love With Love—threads through Hollywood‑inflected standards like A Foggy Day and I Only Have Eyes for You, and moves into the post‑war and modern jazz songbook via Tenderly, I’ll Remember April, Milestones, a loose Blues, and the sly vocalese of Twisted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviewers describe the set as a “living map” of how jazz singing had evolved by the mid‑1960s, with Murphy treating repertoire not as fixed artifacts but as raw material for risk, interaction, and reinvention. He vaults between low notes and falsetto, reshapes melodies, folds blues phrasing and bebop velocity into familiar forms, and approaches standards with a freedom that sometimes borders on the abstract, already sounding like the fearless, idiosyncratic artist he would become on later studio records. The historical context adds further weight: Club 43 was a crucial node in the UK jazz network, operating under Musicians’ Union restrictions that made visits from American players hard‑won, and Murphy’s residency there sits amid a remarkable run of engagements by Lee Konitz, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Archie Shepp, and others. As a physical release, Live at Club 43 eschews gimmickry in favor of careful restoration and framing—gatefold packaging, liner notes by Scott Yanow and Murphy’s last manager, and mastering that lets the room breathe—making it less a curiosity than a vivid snapshot of an artist in motion, at a pivotal moment when the Great American Songbook and modern jazz were still part of the same fluid conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ 2LP","offer_id":53698386297146,"sku":"38999","price":68.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-07-07_at_3.44.48_PM.jpeg?v=1783453699","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/live_at_club_43_1966_manchester_uk","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}