Ronan Murphy

@ronanmurphymusic

Jazz singer | Poet New single IDLE MOMENTS out now Album THE TEMPLE SESSIONS ronanmurphymusic.com Poetry collection forthcoming in 2026 With THE BROKEN SPINE @thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Jun 6

New single IDLE MOMENTS out now. Recorded this as a demo for my next album, but it caught a certain mood I was after, so I kept it as is. Music by Duke Pearson, immortalised by Grant Green. Original lyrics. Voice & uke. Produced by Mikey Rogers. linktr.ee/ronanmurphym... #jazzsky #musicsky

Front cover of Ronan Murphy's single 'Idle Moments'

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Nov 22

New single 'Restless' out now. One of the sweetest ballads from the swing era, it was a dream to bring this to life again linktr.ee/ronanmurphym... Ryan Molloy - Bass Shugo Ishii - Guitar Eoghan McCloskey - Drums Recorded with Mikey Rogers @ Sun Studios, Dublin #jazzsky

Front cover of 'Restless', the new single from Ronan Murphy's album 'The Temple Sessions,' recorded with Ryan Molloy, Eoghan McCloskey, and Shugo Ishii

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· May 29

New single 'Moose The Mooche (You Gotta Whistle Like Bacall)' out now. A vocal take on Charlie Parker's classic, with original lyrics ronanmurphymusic.com/moose-the-mo... Ryan Molloy - Bass Shugo Ishii - Guitar Eoghan McCloskey - Drums Recorded with Mikey Rogers @ Sun Studios, Dublin #jazzsky

Cover of 'Moose The Mooche (You Gotta Whistle Like Bacall', the new single from Ronan Murphy's album 'The Temple Sessions', recorded with Ryan Molloy, Shugo Ishii & Eoghan McCloskey

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· May 8

Next single Moose The Mooche out soon, with original lyrics This is my fave pic of Bird, with the Buddha-like eyes that Kerouac described, "The expression that says, All is well. This was what Charlie Parker said when he played, All is well" NY, c.1947 Photo by William Gottlieb #jazzsky

Photo of Charlie Parker backstage at Carnegie Hall, c.1947. Smiling, radiant. Photo by William Gottlieb

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· May 2

For #poemsabout #green @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Poem by Ronan Murphy (1 of 2)

the rain
sylphs
and
stills
in
the pine
trees
pine and
the rain
sylphing
the
wet
needles
the
needles
of rain
sylph in
the dark
pine

Poem by Ronan Murphy (2 of 2)

triads of
rain
sylphs
of
rain
dripping
green fire
of trees
still
green
fire of
pine
of rain
pine
and
the triad
sylphing
incandescence
of rain

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Apr 13

Ella and Dizzy, New York, 1950 Photo by Herman Leonard #jazzsky

B&W photo of Dizzy Gillespie playfully embracing Ella Fitzgerald backstage in NY. Photo by Herman Leonard

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Apr 4

A little offering for today's #poemsabout #thresholds @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Text of the poem:
liminesce

listen the
stars taste of
passion fruit

By Ronan Murphy

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Mar 30

If his prose is as dazzling as his poetry, this will certainly be a work to savour. Peeling Apples, the new novella from Alan Parry, out April 4. Can't wait to delve into this, from one of our most compelling modern voices bit.ly/3QUbNQl #PeelingApples #WritingCommunity #WritersofBlueSky

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Mar 8

'Someday beneath some hard Capricious star— Spreading its light a little Over far, We'll know you for the woman That you are... ' Djuna Barnes, From Fifth Avenue Up #poetry

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Mar 2

'... To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear ...' These are among my lodestar lines at the moment. Shelley, from Prometheus Unbound #poetrysky #poetrycommunity

Text from Prometheus Unbound by P.B. Shelley.
From Demogorgon's speech at the finale:

Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.

Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity,
Mother of many acts and hours, should free
The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume
An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Feb 25

Ronan Murphy@ronanmurphymusic· Feb 19

High Rise, a new anthology from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social, out now. Honoured to have a poem in this mesmeric collection #poetry #brutalistpoetry www.amazon.co.uk/High-Rise-Brutalist-Thematic-Slimline-Anthologies/dp/B0DX27Y5Y5