Mark Winkler
SWEET SPOT

Sweet Spot once again showcases Mark Winkler’s skill as a consummate lyricist and singer, but this time features him on 4 standards including "On Broadway" and "But Not For Me", as well as Andre Previn’s "Like Young" and Bobby Troup’s "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring". The title cut is a Winkler original that is a duet between him and Vocalist Supreme Barbara Morrison, with a guitar solo by Grant Geissman.

Always known for the company he keeps, this time he ups the ante with such jazz stars as Billy Childs, Grant Geissman, Bob Sheppard, Greg Hutchinson and Anthony Wilson.

Sweet Spot
Café Pacific Records
CPCD10250
 

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 Sweet Spot CD Cover

Like Young       Sweet Spot      On Broadway       Somewhere In Brazil 
 

Mark Winkler
TILL I GET IT RIGHT

This CD features mostly original Mark Winkler songs with a few favorites thrown in by such writers as Ivan Lins and Brock Walsh and Steve Allen. There's a neat duet on the Winkler/Marilyn Harris original "Cool" with Cheryl Bentyne and lots more.

See Mark's Videos page to view a music video of "Sissies".

 

Till I Get It Right
FreeHam Records 0907

Till I Get It Right        How Can That Make You Fat?       Cool       Sissies       In A Lonely Place
 

PLAY IT COOL

Original
Los Angeles
Cast Recording

Original music from the critically acclaimed film noire jazz musical - with Mark Winkler's lyrics - the music of 10 great composers - and arrangements by music director Louis Durra and the band.

Featuring 19 songs from the show - with a book by Larry Dean Harris.

PLAY IT COOL
Original Los Angeles Cast Recording
Café Pacific Records   CPCD1240


Club Life        In My Drag        Another Night         
Rainbows        Like Jazz
 

Garden of Earthly Delights

The Best of
Mark Winkler
and Friends

The best of six albums and 15 years - featuring Gerald Albright, David Benoit, Boney James, Brian Bromberg, Dianne Reeves, The Rippingtons, Joe Sample, Tom Scott, Dan Siegel - and more!

 

Garden of Earthly Delights
The Best of Mark Winkler and Friends
Varese Sarabande 302 066 472 2

Garden of Earthly Delights
 

Mark Winkler
Sings Bobby Troup

Winkler's magnificent "Sings Bobby Troup" is an exciting and passionate musical valentine to a legend whose vocal stylings and music helped define the West Coast cool of another place and time. Mark sings such proven Troup standards as "Route 66", "Baby, Baby All the Time" and "Girl Talk", but delves deeper into the Troup songbook to sing such lesser known treasures as "Three Bears", "Hungry Man" and the never recorded before - "Learn to Love".


Route 66
          Hungry Man          You're Lookin' at Me         Three Bears

Produced by Barbara Brighton, who also helmed "Easy the Hard Way", "Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troup" features the bright and infinitely jazzy backing of two famed Los Angeles ensembles: the Anthony Wilson Trio, featuring Wilson's electric guitar dazzle, and pianist Jon Mayer's group, which plays with Winkler in Los Angeles. Bob Shepard's sax adds a soulful texture in all the right spots as well.

 

 
Sharing, as Winkler sings on the lone original song "Two Guys from the Coast", "a love of all things that swing", the singer and his late muse, Bobby Troup, bring that vibe to a new generation. "When I sing 'Lemon Twist', I imagine I'm wearing a turtleneck and holding a martini and all is right with the world," says Winkler. "When I sing Bobby Troup, I can't help but feel cool."

Mark Winkler Sings Bobby Troup
Rhombus Records RHO 7029


World of Mark Winkler
includes such favorites as:

"Garden of Earthly Delights"
with Dianne Reeves,
"Scattin' in the Moonlight",
"Rainbows" with David Benoit
and everybody's favorite,
"Everybody Cha-Cha".

Plus, the second CD is a treasure chest of undiscovered stuff I've dug up, including 2 songs which I recorded with Russ Freeman and the Rippingtons and the original demos of "Ebony Rain" and "Beauty and the Beach".

This CD contains an amazing array of talent, including: Tom Scott, Peter White, Boney James, Grant Geissman, Freddie Ravel, Neil Stubenhaus, Julie Kelly, Sam Riney and "Doc" Powell.

Dancin' in the Sunshine
Color of Love
Relaxin'
Beauty and the Beach



 

My very first CD, Jazz Life, which has never been issued on CD before in the U.S. is now out.

It includes a bonus track, "Jazz Is Alive" which I recorded around the time I was doing the "Jazz Life" sessions.



EASY THE HARD WAY

"Trio"
"Easy the Hard Way"
"Like Young"
"Baby It's Cold Outsite"

EBONY RAIN

"Garden of Earthly Delights"

HOTTEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR

"In a Minor Key"

     

COLOR OF LOVE

"Scattin in the Moonlight"

TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD

"When All the Lights
in the Sign Worked
"

"Everybody Cha-Cha"

CITY LIGHTS

"New York City Blues"

 

 

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