Orla Murphy has been performing on the London jazz scene for the last few years, and has worked and recorded with many of London's leading jazz musicians such as: Jonathan Gee, Simon Wallace, Julie Walkington, Neville Malcolm, and Winston Clifford, to name a few.

She has also performed throughout the UK, in Italy, Ireland and Scotland, with notable performances at the Derry Jazz & Big Band Festival in Northern Ireland (May '07), the Glasgow International Jazz Festival (June '07) and Swansea Jazzland, Wales (July '07).

In the last year Orla released her debut album 'Wishful Thinking', which she co-produced with pianist Simon Wallace. The album had its official release on FMR Records on the 1st May 2008 and is gaining notable praise from jazz musicians and critics alike.

This release coincides with Orla's first Jazz Services tour in England which begins at the National Portrait Gallery in London on the 30th May 2008. She is accompanied by pianist Giovanni Mazzarino www.myspace.com/giovannimazzarino who is regarded as one of the finest jazz pianists in Europe today. Giovanni is over from Palermo (where he is based) especially for the tour.

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