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Love Is What Stays Love Is What Stays Love Is What Stays is a 2007 studio album by Mark Murphy, arranged by Nan Schwartz and Till Brönner. For Murphy's second Verve album, he is accompanied by such luminaries as Lee Konitz, Don Grusin, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chuck Loeb and Sebastian Merk. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album four stars and said that "Love Is What Stays" "is a deeply satisfying and, in places, even astonishing reflection on time and its passage. Memory, reverie, regrets, victories, hipster mysticism, and wonderfully canny theatrically poetic wordplay all come to bear in these songs.