Maurice Coyle

Artist: Maurice Coyle

Step back to the days of the great jazz singers that touched your heart and set you feet moving. Remember when you held your lover close and slowly danced to songs of style and substance. The melodies poured out like warm velvet and the lyrics went straight to our soul. This is the music of the heart.

Dr Maurice Coyle brings those songs to life with a sensitive ear and a rich smooth voice. Wonderfully realized with vocal arrangements by Peggy Monaghan, piano and trio arrangements by Tom Bargelski, and Bid Band arrangements by Kerry Maule, this CD succeeds in presenting these classic songs in a thoroughly contemporary style.

For the people who will hear these tunes for the first time, they represent the golden age of song writing. These songs were created in a time when the words were paramount, followed closely by and unforgettable and moving melody. Songs were intended to transport the listener to new places and take them away for the concerns of everyday life. In our modern times, these ballads may well be "Just What the Doctor Ordered"

Tracks include:

1.You're Driving Me Crazy
2.Nice Work if You Can Get It
3. Guess I'll Hang my Tears Out to Dry
4. But Not For Me
5. What'll I Do
6. Change Partners
7. It's Easy to Remember
8. Easy To Love
9. Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans
10. Imagination
11. Every Time We Say Goodbye
12. Fly me to the Moon

Artist: Maurice Coyle

The recording studio was filled with an easy camaraderie, and the musicians were eager to begin. Mutual respect is the heart of all creative endeavors and this was evident in the actions and attitudes of the musicians and recording engineers. This was music as team sports - you rely on the efforts and skills of the individual players to deliver the finest performance.

Maurice Coyle sipped a cup of coffee, and tossed ideas and laughter back and forth with Peggy Monaghan, the producer, and Charlie Hewitt, the engineer. Coyle was quick to offer ideas about the session, but just as eager to listen to them. In the booth, his voice was smooth as warm silk and filled with confidence and excitement.

The session musicians were impressive. Two pianists played on the project, Tom Bargelski and Melissa Bledsoe Fischer. Bargelski was the epitome of taste and timing, and a master of open spaces, allowing Coyle's vocals to shine. Fischer played with cool, intricate improvisations punctuated by explosive chords. Dirk Westfall provided a sweeping bass line with a solid foundation of rhythm. The drums were either the sensuous brushwork of John Damberg or the unshakable, but sensitive playing of Vinnie Palazzotto.

The best jazz is born in the heart and experienced through the body. Vital Signs is that kind of music - the very best.

VITAL MAURY BIO
Maurice Coyle leads two lives. He is both an accomplished vocalist, who inherited his love of jazz from his father, and an Alaskan doctor. Vital signs is his second recording to lovingly explore a selection of his favorite tunes from the golden age of songwriting.

Building on the success of Just What the Doctor Ordered, Dr.Maurice Coyle returns with a second round of treatments for the ballad-deprived listener. Vital Signs is filled with the same rich vocals that made Dr. Coyle's first CD so welcome. Here are jazz ballads at their best, performed by someone completely in love with and dedicated to this beautiful music. Dr. Coyle donates his proceeds from the sale of Vital Signs and Just What the Doctor Ordered to Alaska Providence Children's Hospital.