Album Notes

ABOUT 'NIGHT TIME' -

Featuring the magical touch of fourteen-time Grammy winning producer/engineer Al Schmitt (Diana Krall, Frank Sinatra) 'Night Time' is the much-anticipated debut of one of the hottest new cool crooners on the scene, Mark Bransfield. As heard on influential Los Angeles radio station KCRW, this incomparable collection of classic ballads, uptempo dance numbers and new original love songs is vocal pop/jazz at its finest, inviting well-deserved comparisons to many of the giants of the field-- Chet Baker and Mel Torme' for starters. Bransfield's achingly beautiful voice expresses all of the longing and heartbreak that only magnificent singers, with songs like these, can convey. Under the auspices of recording legend Al Schmitt, the engineer of over 150 Gold and Platinum-selling albums, 'Night Time' is "One of the first truly great albums of 2005."* Take heed, alienated listeners in the Age of Britney, this is music with integrity. This is music for adults.

(*Michael Knudsen, popbytes.com)


ABOUT MARK -

In the current, sometimes Dark Age of commercial pop music, Los Angeles crooner Mark Bransfield is a true Renaissance man. A versatile singer of exceptional range and styles, he is equally at home singing pop-jazz as he is singing bluegrass or rock. A songwriter and a multi-instrumentalist as well, he counts many influences as his inspirations. But time and again he has returned to his first love, singing Standards, or as he puts it, "songs that will still be here in a thousand years." Mark's stunning vocal debut, 'Night Time,' is the ripe fruit of that love. Backed by his superb quartet, the album features many classic love songs as well as his own original compositions. Bransfield is clearly not only a new artist to watch, but also one to hear, for many years to come.