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Award winning jazz singer releases 8th CD "Saloon Standard".

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JOE COUGHLIN BOWS 8th CD “SALOON STANDARD”

Victoria, BC –May 29,2014 Who knows how the French salon got stretched into the North American saloon, and an intimate gathering place for artists and writers became the hangout for a bunch of drunken cowboys. Rest assured, jazz vocalist Joe Coughlin’s new album Saloon Standard, recorded with Toronto pianist Mark Eisenman, has more to do with salons than saloons. After all, the standards of the Great American Songbook are closer to art songs than to the achy-breaky love tunes that get lapped up in bars, particularly as performed here with only voice and piano. But stuffy and high-falutin’ they ain’t. These are relaxed, intimate songs for savouring late at night when the world is quiet and the only thing between you and the performers is your heart, your stereo and your ears. A veteran of seven albums, two National Jazz awards and over thirty years of performing, Coughlin has long dreamed of recording this album with Eisenman. Jazz legend Don Thompson brought them together in Toronto when they were in their twenties. They’ve enjoyed each other’s company ever since, performing first as a duo, then in trios, quartets, and most recently with a sixty-piece symphony orchestra. Tony Bennett and Bill Evans set a standard for the jazz vocal/piano album in the mid-seventies. Coughlin and Eisenman, drawing inspiration from those masters, have set a new one. So grab a glass of wine, sit back in your favourite salon (or saloon), and enjoy.

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Joe Coughlin Award Winning Jazz Vocalist 250-475-2475 www.joecoughlinjazz.com

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I love jazz because...it is the kind of music you can still play as you age.