Pandemic delayed what performer had hoped would be a breakout year
When: Saturday, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m. After retiring from his job with the provincial government in 2019, jazz singer Joe Coughlin figured 2020 was going to be his “breakout year,” with a number of recording projects and concerts on his calendar. The activity would have marked his 42nd year as a professional performer.
His fascination with the music of Hartman, a legendary balladeer, goes back to Coughlin’s youth in Wallaceburg, Ontario, where he played drums in a number of local rock bands, one of which put a record out in 1977. He made the switch to jazz in 1979, and released his first recording in 1981, while he was living in Toronto. Hartman was one of the first jazz icons whose catalogue Coughlin came to know intimately, he said.
Coughlin’s album-release concert will be held Saturday at the Dave Dunnet Community Theatre, where he has performed several times in the past; a memorable one was his 2015 concert feting Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, backed by an 18-piece big band led by Phil Dwyer. He’ll be joined by pianist Tony Genge, tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds, drummer Hans Verhoeven, and bassist Ken Lister at the Saturday event, which doubles as a fundraiser for an Oak Bay Rotary Foundation scholarship.
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