Fields sold the label in 1996 to Joel Dorn who released four compilation albums from Mark Murphy's Muse catalogue on the 32 Jazz label, Stolen...And Other Moments, Jazz Standards, Songbook, and Mark Murphy Sings Nat King Cole & More.

You can infer improvisation by not singing at all, or rhythmically pausing, or hitting a note so squarely in tune that you create overtones.

[4] This release also includes two of Murphy's own vocalese with his lyrics to jazz instrumental improvisations on Wayne Shorter's "Effendi" and Lee Morgan's "Ceora".

There's only one of his originals, but many of his inventive lyrics to standards are here, along with other modern jazz pieces [...] there's plenty in this two-CD, 26-track collection to show how Murphy had matured, and how fertile his mind was.

[7] Assessing Murphy's recorded legacy from Muse Records in his book A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald points out the four Muse anthologies issued by Joel Dorn show "the astonishing range and scope, not to mention sheer size, of the singer's seventies and eighties output".

[4] Friedwald goes on to say the releases reveal, "his output has been so consistently excellent—that so many of these records deserve to be regarded, in retrospect, as classics of the jazz vocal genre—and that even his occasional missteps are instructive".

He likened his tone to a less nasal Jack Teagarden, quite distinct from all of the other male Great American Songbook singers.