Jazz Articles about Spencer Reed

Nancy Reed & Spencer Reed: Happying

by Katchie Cartwright
August 19, 2024

The jazz world encompasses a multitude of local communities. Jazz came to Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania via the inns and summer resorts for which the region has been known since the second decade of the 19th century, attracting New Yorkers and Philadelphians seeking summer refuge and fresh woodland air. By the time singer-bassist Nancy Reed and singer-guitarist Spencer Reed arrived there from New York in 1976, a scene had been building for a quarter ...